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Got the last concrete done today.

The weather here is picture perfect. Best day of the year.

The fda is planning to ban all transfats from processed food. I bet they diddle around and it takes several more years before it goes fully into effect.

Hi, CI. Good to hear from you.

I will. I don't go there often.

And all the meat suffused with natural bodily responses to life in such conditions.

My youngest half sister made contact with me a while back. I am her senior by ten years. We have become good friends in our encroaching old age. During her growing years, I was mostly gone, serving as a sailor and later living a vagabond's existence. We never lived in the same city. Practically strangers, we were. We spend our visiting time rehashing our lives and comparing notes. There are many gaps being filled in. Last time we mostly spoke of old TV and the music each of us likes. Our tastes are remarkably similar. It's nice to have family.

Ed said: "It's nice to have family"
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The only surviving family of mine are a sister and two grown up nieces and they're a bunch of disorganised airheaded flakes!
I used to regularly send them birthday cards and christmas cards with a bit of money in them and never even got a card or thank you in return, so this past year i've not bothered sending them a card or anything. One niece (age 30) emailed me to ask why not and I replied "Well you lot never send me cards so I don't send you any!"
She snapped back "Grow up!" and i haven't heard from her since. Huh, and i even bought her a car once, and have been propping her and my other niece up with cash for years!
The other niece (age 40) also emailed me to grovellingly apologise for "forgetting" my birthday but I never bothered to reply.
I don't think there's anything deliberately nasty about them, they're just a bunch of flakes like i said.
Anyway i've finished with the lot of 'em, they've killed the golden goose..

"Nice" is a concept unknown to evolution ed.

If that's what you think, you haven't the foggiest about evolution.

I am self evidently not alone ed.

You people think evolution is the law of fang and claw, exclusively, overlooking the other aspects that make life successful. No wonder you remain in a dither.

Leaving out early again. Yesterday I started on replacing an exterior light, about twenty feet off the ground. Turned out the old light was somehow made to stay up there, although all I found at the spot where the wires came out was over Hardiplank siding. When I tried to put the lag screws back to hold the new one, they didn't catch anything. May have to get in the attic today.

I'm not in a dither ed. Your reliance on assertions to clinch your arguments is dithering. I hadn't the foggiest yesterday you declared.

I do not overlook other aspects of life. It is the Christian mission to further them and contradict evolution.

Evolution is a description of a killing field.

Ed said: "You people think evolution is the law of fang and claw, exclusively, overlooking the other aspects that make life successful. No wonder you remain in a dither"
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But it's evolutionists themselves who push the "fang and claw" idea, by saying that's what "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection" is all about!
So according to them, "niceness" cannot creep into the equation because soft nice unselfish humans would have died out long ago.
But in fact there are at least as many nice unselfish people around today as there are nasty selfish ones..

Why do you think that is the case, Romeo?

I don't believe in physical reincarnation but maybe when a nice person dies, God "re-cycles" the good bits of their spirit back into the "recycling soul pool" rather than let it go to waste.
As a result, generally speaking the human race has gotten more kinder and decent over many generations because of that constant "spiritual refining process".
For example if a dying starving caveman gave the last morsel of food to his wife and child to keep them alive at the cost of his own life, I don't think God would let his decent compassionate spirit be lost forever.

I don't want to turn this into a religion/atheist thread, spendi. But you are wrong as can be.

That's what happens when you leave your heart in plain sight where people can stomp on it.

Reading about how nice we are Romeo reminded me of how admirably nice Ulysses was in Homer's wondrously beautiful tale of Calypso offering to make him immortal so they could be together on Her enchanted island forever; and his unselfish niceness caused him to refuse Her so he could return to his beloved wife, Penelope, who was stringing along a house full of rich suitors, and to his son Telemachus who was as bad as anybody who ever was on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

I don't think I could be as nice as that. Or as stupid.

That's a tale which has imaginative lightning flashing in all directions for me.

No wonder Dylan did Open The Door Homer.