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@OmSigDAVID,

Thanks. I appreciate the clarification. I'll think about it. I may not be motivated to post in the near future, though. ("Celibate herpetology"? :-D ) Seriously, it's always a good idea to wash your hands after handling a reptile because they can carry salmonella. Of course, you probably knew this already.

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@wmwcjr,

wmwcjr wrote:

Thanks. I appreciate the clarification. I'll think about it.
I may not be motivated to post in the near future, though.
("Celibate herpetology"? :-D ) Seriously, it's always a good idea
to wash your hands after handling a reptile because they can carry salmonella.
Of course, you probably knew this already.

YEAH! I never trusted the dinosaurs, anyway!
(Is that like paleo-herpetology ?)

We will yearn
for the return
of our favorite apostate herpetologist.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

You're a poet, doncha know it. Needless to say, paleontology would include the study of dinosaurs. I also don't need to tell you that the scientific disciplines are not totally separate and apart from each other, but overlap easily. For example, at least a third of the material in a high-school physics textbook is also found in the chemistry textbook for obvious reasons. (We sure got way off the subject of this thread, but who cares?)

I shall leave you with this interesting fact: Some people in other countries get high by licking secretions off the bodies of live cane toads, I believe is the species. Sounds like fun. Have the U.S. hippies heard about this?

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@wmwcjr,

wmwcjr wrote:

You're a poet, doncha know it. Needless to say, paleontology
would include the study of dinosaurs. I also don't need to tell you
that the scientific disciplines are not totally separate and apart
from each other, but overlap easily. For example, at least a third
of the material in a high-school physics textbook is also found
in the chemistry textbook for obvious reasons. (We sure got way
off the subject of this thread, but who cares?)

RIGHT!!!

wmwcjr wrote:

I shall leave you with this interesting fact:
Some people in other countries get high by licking secretions
off the bodies of live cane toads, I believe is the species.
Sounds like fun. Have the U.S. hippies heard about this?

Yeah; I saw that on TV on an episode of "REAPER", but it got cancelled.

Happy Snakes to u, until we meet again . . . .
May the HAPPIEST of snakes go to u !

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

Is flipping a coin too scientific ?

Absolutely

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

In deciding which team to favor,
do u always choose the favorite, in order to promote
the odds of cheering instead of groaning?
David

i always cheer for the underdog

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:
In deciding which team to favor,
do u always choose the favorite, in order to promote
the odds of cheering instead of groaning?
David

i always cheer for the underdog

Does that reveal a tacit, clandestine masochism?

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I wonder how the fanatics of a designated athletic team
woud re-act emotionally, if thay discovered that those guys
espoused principles that were abhorent to those of the fanatic?

For instance,
if a libertarian fan discovers
that his favorite athletes approve of nazism or communism, etc. ?
How does the fan re-act to those revelations?

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@OmSigDAVID,

no, i believe it shows sympathy

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

no, i believe it shows sympathy

Well, relative to the cheering or groaning
that was discussed earlier on this thread,
which result is more likely from choosing the worse team ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

I wonder how the fanatics of a designated athletic team
woud re-act emotionally, if thay discovered that those guys
espoused principles that were abhorent to those of the fanatic?

For instance,
if a libertarian fan discovers
that his favorite athletes approve of nazism or communism, etc. ?
How does the fan re-act to those revelations?

for me the fact that they're athletes is enough, never go the whole jock thing as a culture

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@OmSigDAVID,

well, i've never pinned my hope s and dreams on a team, so really it's not a big deal, if the win it's a great feeling, if they lose, i forget about it pretty quickly

in the last few years i've been really let down that the detroit lions one a game one season, thus ruining their chance of having a 100% losing season (i think any record is better than none)

conversely, i loved the fact that the patriots won every game in the regular season and then lost the superbowl

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

conversely, i loved the fact that the patriots won every game in the regular season and then lost the superbowl

Y did u love that fact? What was it about that fact that most u loved?

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@OmSigDAVID,

it just felt right, like the universe saying, don't get to comfortable, sort of a some day the big rock hurtling through space isn't gonna miss kind of moment

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

it just felt right, like the universe saying, don't get to comfortable,
sort of a some day the big rock hurtling through space isn't gonna miss kind of moment

I 'm having trouble wrapping my head around this:
according to u, it feels right,
for the universe to come out against comfort (we shoud prefer discomfort)
and it feels right that we will eventually get hit with a big rock from space????

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@OmSigDAVID,

statistically it seems likely to happen

i'm a take things as they are kind of guy, what can i say, if i like a tv show, or movie series, or book series and they get canceled or come to an end, i don't pine for them, i'm thankful for the enjoyment i got and move along, this attitude, in my mind makes life much easier, instead of worrying about the future or pining for the good old days, live in the moment

basically eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die

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@djjd62,

What do you mean by "never go the whole jock thing as a culture"? In other words, what is "the whole jock thing as a culture"? Believe me, I'm not meaning to be disrepectful; I'm just curious because I don't understand. I mean, what's involved in this?

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@OmSigDAVID,

You don't have to be a Libertarian in order to be repulsed by Naziism or Communism. Just being a decent human being is enough. You might be interested in doing a Google search on the House of Terror museum in Budapest, Hungary. A few youtube videos are also available. The building that was converted into this museum has a horribly dark but fascinating history. I'm sure that if I had the opportunity to visit this museum, I'd leave in tears.

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@wmwcjr,

wmwcjr wrote:

You don't have to be a Libertarian in order to be repulsed
by Naziism or Communism.

U don 't, but it helps.
In both cases, there is an attack upon personal freedom n Individualism.
As I see it, that is the heart n soul of the ideological difference.

I 'm glad that u did not leave.
I was hoping that u 'd stick around.
U seem like a good fellow.

wmwcjr wrote:

Just being a decent human being is enough.
You might be interested in doing a Google search on the House of
Terror museum in Budapest, Hungary. A few youtube videos are
also available. The building that was converted into this museum
has a horribly dark but fascinating history. I'm sure that if I had
the opportunity to visit this museum, I'd leave in tears.

Sounds good for Halloween.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Thanks for the compliment. I hope I won't disappoint or bore you with more posts.

Regarding your observation as a libertarian that totalitarianism is an assault on individuality, you might be interested to learn that Lenin and Hitler attacked the very notion of the conscience of the individual. Lenin completely dismissed the concept of conscience (and morality) as a "bourgeoisie" invention. Addressing an assembly of SS officers (if I remember correctly who the audience was), Hitler said, "Let me liberate you from the chimera of conscience." In this country during the Vietnam War, conscientious objectors whose religious convictions were not in doubt were exempted from the draft. In Nazi Germany all conscientious objectors, including Jehovah's Witnesses, were executed. I'm sure the record is the same for Communist regimes.

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