Another day when there is no God

We are trained from the cradle to consider one color as viable. I was lucky. I am dark enough to get mistaken for other ethnicities. I've been stopped by police and asked for my papers. My own wife asked if I was Mexican just after we met. I've been charged with being Jew, Italian - It gives a bit of perspective to feel that racist tinge in their words. Mostly I just laughed at those people.

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@edgarblythe,

so many ways to be judged, pigeon-holed, classified, ratified, stratified. Wonder if we'll ever progress as a humans...or just put ourselves out of business through 'natural' (our own nature's) means. Call it a fatal flaw.

As a species, we won't be killed off by global warming or atmospheric toxicity of the natural resources. We'll just make ourselves extinct through own stupidity.

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@Ragman,

I just read that we are in the next mass extinction of species. You never know which ones will survive.

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@edgarblythe,

As comedian Geo Carlin said, The earth will still be here....but mankind is fucked.

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

so many ways to be judged, pigeon-holed, classified, ratified, stratified. Wonder if we'll ever progress as a humans....

We have progressed a great deal, but I don't know that we can overcome prejudices. It's sort of in our nature.

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@Ragman,

And as Einstein put it, I don't know with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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Ragman: A guy I once worked with said, on one of his jobs, he went with a group to test suspected contamination spots around the nation. He also said we are screwed.

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http://maxcdn.thedesigninspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fashion-Zoo-Animals-0101.jpg

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@edgarblythe,

What a load of bull.

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@edgarblythe,

Wow...you are dark.

But you don't seem Mexican to me. You seem bull-headed.

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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
- Ben Franklin

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@edgarblythe,

Talk about an unfair world...
I used to work right near one of those Toxic waste sites ...'capped off' Superfund Cleanup sites in Woburn, Mass. When there was a foggy night, you could smell just how bad it really was. Pollution from a tannery where horse and animal hides were buried after being reduced down. I guess there was arsenic and old lace...and whatnot. John Revolting acted in a movie about this a legal thriller.

Let me see..it was called "A Civil Action", 1998 movie...not a critically acclaimed movie.

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I remember the title. Well, I know some kinds of animals and plants can survive our pollution. Perhaps the next round in evolution will not produce anything nearer humans than apes or monkeys. I can't say it would be a tragedy.

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@Frank Apisa,

I think that those who are thumbing this post down did NOT look to see the post it was replying to. Context makes all the difference.

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@mesquite,

We thumb down Apisa because we don't want to read about guessing for thousands of posts. I'm sorry. He took it too far and I don't want the thread to revolve around him.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
- Ben Franklin

Why do YOU rely on "faith", Edgar?

You offer your "faith" comments as though they are revelations from on-high.

Why?

Why not open the eye of reason.

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@mesquite,

The "thumbing" function is a joke, Mesquite.

I pay no attention to it at all.

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It is commonly said that Neanderthals went extinct. But is it extinction when they contributed a noticeable amount of DNA to humans. Thinking about this makes me wonder if the other non sapiens that have been shown to have existed before that also interbred. I haven't read speculation about it, but why not? Men in particular often are attracted to non human sex. A local guy keeps getting arrested for trying to sex people's horses.

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http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/uranus-moon-miranda-303545-sw.jpg

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@edgarblythe,

Helluva image, Edgar. What's it of? Are we that close to Ceres already?

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