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(...) Good builder? Really good at microscale? Worked on the LEGO Factory project? I think you're thinking of ROSS! (I've alleged before that Ross does all the good building in that family, J2 just takes the credit...) Seriously, ya, he's not bad. (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, technically he did with the Factory Team last year?! Perhaps he still does? - with NDAs we're not really in a position to know one way or the other! Seriously though, John's one of my favorite builders. His work is always top notch. (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) He has a LEGO career? I did not know that! (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) :) lol... that's pretty good, but don't leave your Lego career for the music biz just yet! :) Spencer (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, only that He hides it well. God: "Does my mass look big in this universe?" I like big orbs and I cannot lie....:-) JOHN (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) In lugnet.off-topic.debate, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote: (...) C'mon, you two, stop. There is really no need, is there? You can be funny enough without the bowdlerizations, right? A guy would think you guys are trying to make me grumpy. Leave (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So what exactly are you implying here - that God's got a huge mASS? Spencer (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, I got that simpler part too - but I felt like examining the contents within the article to see if they supported it. Definitely a foot-in-mouth award is due here. :) Spencer (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, OK. But the reason I found it funny is much more simple... the speaker is basically saying *he's* not intelligent or not educated, or perhaps, neither. (and you know what, I tend to think he's right... he isn't!) Didn't mean to spark a (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I totally agree, but that's really just saying that the two are unrelated. Which is fine. Wisdom =/= Intelligence. But I just kinda find it sad that the connatation forming on the Right is that "Intelligence = Bad/Unwise/Evil". (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote: <snip> (...) Merely because a person knows a lot about quantum mechanics or is an expert on pottery from the Ming Dynasty doesn't make them any wiser than an old hayseed from Tennessee. I mean, wasn't (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Or, framed another way, an overwhelming minority who wish to impose their elitist, secular beliefs on the unwashed masses. (...) See, here is the crux of the issue for me: science has the temerity to assume that it will ever come close to (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) **snip of example** I figured that you and I had been through all this already before. Proof in scientific terms is most certainly not in the eye of the beholder, but "proof" in that context doesn't mean the same thing as "proof" in a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Rob Doucette wrote: Hey! What's a "Rob" doing in this thread? (...) ---...--- Too Many Daves ---...--- Did I ever tell you that Mrs McCave had twenty-three sons and named them all Dave? Well, she did. And that wasn't a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's better with music: (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote: <snip> . Arguing is so much more fun :) (...) Do all Daves consider arguing fun? Or is that just the Daves around here? Dave K (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, my initial response was something a bit more argumentative. But when I started thinking about it, I realized there were some interpretations of the statement that I found I agreed with. So I erased my 2 paragraphs and wound up with a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm gonna skip down to here, because here's the meat of the argument, I think. Proof is in the eye of the beholder. *DISPROOF* is far more objective. I'm thinking of a number sequence. The first number is 1. A creationist (I'm gonna go back to (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To be fair, you did say "I guess that's right," without disclaiming a whole lot of wiggle room. I can accept your more elaborate articuation below, but I hope you can see that my response wasn't inappropriate given your initially apparent (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That's true, which is why I didn't say "that's exactly correct!". But in thinking about human evolution, a very early step (and not necessarily the first, depending on what you call steps versus qualifications, or transition states or (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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