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Causation is driven by chaos
re: Causation is driven by chaos
gbaikie
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6/9/2005 10:10:03 AM
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Is there anyway of getting out of this chaos?
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Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God"
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Gary
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6/7/2005 4:11:09 PM
re: Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God"
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Phillip
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6/17/2005 3:28:29 PM
It's on "This American Life", a syndicated radio show broadcast on public radio stations.
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Mary Anne
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6/17/2005 4:01:04 PM
re: It's on "This American Life", a syndicated radio show broadcast on public radio stations.
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Phillip
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6/17/2005 5:51:03 PM
re: It's on "This American Life", a syndicated radio show broadcast on public radio stations.
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Phillip
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6/17/2005 5:50:55 PM
After all the comments in this thread I listened to it...
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R.L.
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6/15/2005 3:50:11 AM
I'm a big fan of Sam Clemens but Sweeney does this better...
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Gary
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6/16/2005 4:24:16 PM
re: I'm a big fan of Sam Clemens but Sweeney does this better...
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R.L.
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6/16/2005 9:05:44 PM
Captain Stormfield is on-line
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Gary
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6/17/2005 2:26:57 AM
I reread the Captain Stormfield website
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Gary
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6/17/2005 4:29:01 PM
re: Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God"
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Frank Sitchler
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6/12/2005 6:20:03 PM
Well, hello! Do you listen to TAL often?
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 10:18:30 PM
Beat me to it ;-)
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Fox
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6/12/2005 10:25:00 PM
Literalism has its pitfalls
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 1:02:19 AM
re: Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God"
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gbaikie
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6/9/2005 8:31:43 AM
Heard it too.
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Bowser
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6/8/2005 12:53:51 AM
You mean it was pre-ordained for you to hear it? :-D
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Tony
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6/8/2005 12:26:10 PM
No, but we WERE driving through burning bushes at the time, unscathed!
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Bowser
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6/8/2005 3:12:32 PM
re: Interesting view point, but
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Johannes
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6/7/2005 9:50:47 PM
Why do otherwise smart people think that religion solves the first causes problem?
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alcaray
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6/8/2005 3:17:56 PM
So true
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Sam F.
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6/11/2005 1:33:06 PM
Some religions create a separation between human beings and divinity.
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 12:15:23 AM
Very nicely written, Mary Anne
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Sam F.
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6/16/2005 9:21:12 AM
Thanks.
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Mary Anne
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6/18/2005 12:30:15 AM
I'm in the same boat
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Gary
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6/11/2005 5:50:56 PM
Things the bible don't tell ya....
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Nick Hoffman
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6/17/2005 3:53:09 PM
Creation is an oxymoron.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/7/2005 10:04:23 PM
re: Creation is an oxymoron..... I see you Reorganized some words, did
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Johannes
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6/7/2005 11:24:30 PM
64,000 Monkeys....
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Nick Hoffman
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6/17/2005 3:54:53 PM
Well...
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/8/2005 3:09:51 AM
I'd like to see your proof of your assertion
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alcaray
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6/8/2005 3:20:09 PM
re: I'd like to see your proof of your assertion
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/9/2005 10:22:59 PM
you said:
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alcaray
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6/9/2005 10:48:29 PM
Conservation of energy as it reagards a finite/infinite universe
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/10/2005 1:52:51 AM
re:What is energy composed of ?
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Johannes
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6/10/2005 10:32:05 PM
Many different things that have the potential to do work.
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alcaray
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6/13/2005 6:24:33 PM
re: In other words, motion or movement?.
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Johannes
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6/14/2005 12:52:10 AM
chemical, potential, kinetic, um can't remember.
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alcaray
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6/14/2005 2:56:38 PM
re: Give me an example of
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Johannes
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6/15/2005 3:45:39 AM
Why?
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alcaray
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6/15/2005 3:07:25 PM
re: Why?
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Johannes
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6/16/2005 3:17:59 AM
Nonsense... (as usual)
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R.L.
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6/16/2005 9:02:33 PM
re: Oxymoron??
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Johannes
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6/17/2005 5:07:53 PM
Why do I bother....?
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R.L.
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6/18/2005 5:23:24 AM
re: Why do I bother....?
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Johannes
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6/20/2005 6:01:49 PM
Well if you want to pull poor Einstein into this...
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alcaray
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6/16/2005 3:18:46 PM
OK, I see where you are getting it from
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alcaray
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6/10/2005 3:21:12 PM
A bit more...
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/10/2005 2:43:20 AM
consternation? no way!
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alcaray
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6/10/2005 3:35:16 PM
circular infinity
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Gary
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6/8/2005 4:35:10 AM
That's just math though
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SDF
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6/8/2005 9:19:06 PM
And...
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SDF
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6/8/2005 9:34:21 PM
Causation is driven by chaos
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Gary
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6/8/2005 4:47:09 AM
re: Causation is driven by chaos
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gbaikie
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6/9/2005 10:10:03 AM
Infinite Parameters (warning long)
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/8/2005 10:20:41 AM
Universal I/O
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Robert
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6/14/2005 3:31:08 AM
Information, Intelligence & Unique Expression
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/15/2005 5:39:24 AM
re: Information, Intelligence & Unique Expression
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Robert
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6/15/2005 4:51:46 PM
"Entropy = Chaos" is what drives this process
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Gary
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6/15/2005 4:28:20 AM
re: "Entropy = Chaos" is what drives this process
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Johannes
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6/17/2005 6:09:34 PM
re: "Entropy != Chaos", electrons, Heisenberg, and bandpass filters
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Robert
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6/15/2005 4:02:31 PM
Randomness, fractals, strange attractors, etc.
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Gary
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6/16/2005 4:31:02 AM
re: Randomness
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Robert
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6/16/2005 4:25:07 PM
The Anthropic Principle
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Fox
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6/16/2005 2:30:44 AM
re: Universal I/O: Interesting ideas
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Johannes
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6/15/2005 2:02:06 AM
The problem must be addressed at the "atomic" level
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Gary
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6/8/2005 4:11:59 PM
Is there really any chaos in the game of life?
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alcaray
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6/8/2005 4:55:43 PM
Conway’s Game of Life is the starting point
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Gary
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6/10/2005 3:46:23 AM
disagree: adding more dimensions to Life does not require adding anything random.
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alcaray
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6/10/2005 3:40:07 PM
Randomness is required to model this problem
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Gary
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6/10/2005 4:20:32 PM
nice stuff, Gary
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Daniel
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6/12/2005 4:49:44 PM
Thanks... Starting points for this sort of analysis
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Gary
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6/12/2005 7:25:47 PM
re: Thanks... Starting points for this sort of analysis
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Daniel
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6/13/2005 7:11:59 AM
.. actually, I should clarify here:
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Daniel
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6/13/2005 7:23:29 AM
Redefining God
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Gary
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6/13/2005 3:36:51 PM
creation as artifact
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Daniel
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6/13/2005 5:30:45 PM
re: Randomness is required to model this problem
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Johannes
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6/10/2005 10:26:52 PM
One it-pick: science does a good deal more than speculate
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alcaray
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6/11/2005 3:34:14 PM
sorry: nit-pick
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alcaray
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6/11/2005 3:34:53 PM
Mixing theology and science
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/11/2005 4:05:01 AM
re: Thanks for the feedback fellows. I'd like clarification on some points.
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Johannes
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6/12/2005 3:50:34 AM
My pleasure...but remember you asked for it!
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/12/2005 7:44:34 AM
re: My pleasure...but remember you asked for it!
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Johannes
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6/14/2005 12:46:11 AM
Life is a good model of a creationist view
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alcaray
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6/10/2005 4:44:18 PM
God is a dungeon master?
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Lee
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6/12/2005 2:18:30 AM
The game might have only a few set of rules
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Gary
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6/10/2005 5:09:17 PM
This thread has become funny!
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 1:36:57 AM
The first cause is the first cause
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alcaray
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6/12/2005 4:40:11 PM
The first 'cause was the answer to the first "why?"
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Fox
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6/12/2005 5:28:05 PM
"But, why?"
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alcaray
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6/13/2005 3:33:41 PM
There are about 5.5-6 billion reasons I'm not laughing.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/12/2005 6:15:26 AM
In reply to your first question:
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 12:27:35 PM
Theology got left at the door
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Gary
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6/12/2005 5:45:22 AM
Whenever God enters the room,
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Mary Anne
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6/12/2005 12:05:25 PM
re: In God we trust, others pay cash.
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Johannes
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6/12/2005 3:53:58 AM
I should have capitalized the L in Life
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alcaray
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6/8/2005 5:43:29 PM
re: I should have capitalized the L in Life
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Fox
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6/9/2005 5:04:20 PM
Definitely some chaos in that Life
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alcaray
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6/9/2005 5:10:47 PM
"Sum over histories"
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Fox
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6/15/2005 2:49:20 PM
Agent Smith Quotes
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SDF
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6/8/2005 5:16:46 PM
Does the "Matrix" run on an Intel or AMD chip?
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Gary
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6/10/2005 4:31:42 PM
Obviously, it runs on a virtual machine ;-)
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.
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6/14/2005 12:32:28 PM
What's the virtual machine running on? :-(
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Gary
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6/14/2005 3:54:11 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.