Starlord??

I haven't visited this group for 2-3 years.

Anyone know the current whereabouts and condition of Starlord -- Dennis Bishop, the Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond?

The last I heard was this response from his brother back in August 2014.

-- quote
There has been no significant change in my brother's condition. He is in a near vegetative state at the Covina Rehab Center.
Staff there are unsure if he can hear/comprehend what goes on around him. He is blind in one Eye and doctors are not sure how much sight, if any, he has in his other eye. I live in Hawaii and have only been able to visit him a couple of times. I was unable to get any type of response from him and I have no idea if he knew I was there. Because he had no advanced health care directive, they are just "keeping him alive" although they have told me that they don't expect him to get any better at this point. He is allowed visitors if anyone is in the area, but if you call for information, they won't give any due to HIPPA laws.
Mahalo, Darren Bishop
-- end quote


Based on his brother's comments, I suspect Dennis may not be with us any longer.

It seems, then, appropriate to use Dennis' signatu

"In This Universe The Night was Falling, The Shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.

But elsewhere the Stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and
along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again."
Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 3:11:47 PM UTC-6, Old Guy wrote:

I haven't visited this group for 2-3 years.

Anyone know the current whereabouts and condition of Starlord -- Dennis
Bishop, the Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond?

The last I heard was this response from his brother back in August 2014.

-- quote

----

Based on his brother's comments, I suspect Dennis may not be with us any
longer.

It seems, then, appropriate to use Dennis' signatu

"In This Universe The Night was Falling, The Shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.

But elsewhere the Stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day
go again."
Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

I love that novel, and its earlier version, Against the Fall of Night.

On Sunday, 3 April 2016 23:11:47 UTC+2, Old Guy wrote:
I haven't visited this group for 2-3 years.

Anyone know the current whereabouts and condition of Starlord -- Dennis Bishop, the Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond?

The last I heard was this response from his brother back in August 2014.

Based on his brother's comments, I suspect Dennis may not be with us any longer.

It seems, then, appropriate to use Dennis' signatu

"In This Universe The Night was Falling, The Shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.

But elsewhere the Stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and
along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again."
Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

If one were to weigh the value of one man against another, who is to say that Starlord was not worth his own weight in gold? And, infinitely preferable to some alive today, who should already have been weighed by a rope, rather than move so freely about their tawdry and tacky Elysium. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:33:32 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

Oh, so you think you're Jesus now?

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 05:20:08 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:33:32 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

Oh, so you think you're Jesus now?

Why would he think that? He's smarter than the mythical character.
He's more moral than the mythical character. And he actually exists,
unlike the mythical character.

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 10:28:19 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 05:20:08 -0700 (PDT), wsnell01 wrote:

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:33:32 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

Oh, so you think you're Jesus now?

Why would he think that?

Because he's an idiot, same as you.

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 07:36:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 10:28:19 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 05:20:08 -0700 (PDT), wsnell01 wrote:

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:33:32 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

Oh, so you think you're Jesus now?

Why would he think that?

Because he's an idiot, same as you.

Oh, the wit. It burns.

Not.

On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:36:30 UTC+2, wrote:

[Edit] Because he's an idiot? The same as you?

Thus spake Zarathustra? To quote another, hardly espouses some adherence or loyalty to a vacuous superstition. One which can hardly bear the merest examination before falling asunder. Religious belief might have offered some consolation to those who suffered at the hands of ignorance and injustice. It hardly commends itself when the ignorance and injustice are forced upon the believer by the very organizations claiming to represent its supposed prophet. Only drooling fools would attend to the murdering, slave-driving, child abusing, torturing, raping taxmen and money launderers who call themselves the servants of god. Organized religion is just another absolute proof of the non-existence of a god with any sense of responsibility or even half a conscience.

We are specks on a speck in a speck in a speck within a universe without apparent boundaries. Do you suppose its creator gets down on its knees with some form of extreme electron microscope, completely beyond our comprehension, to watch the subatomic motes going down to their own tiny knees in worship? Does the superpower microscope have audio so "their" creator can hear the selfish prayers of these same, subatomic motes?

Is there a factory somewhere manufacturing souls as fast as its unpaid workers can manage just to keep up with population growth and to make a nice offshore investment of the tax free profits for the Director? Or is there a rich and [probably] corrupt secondhand souls market we haven't been told about? Do they have insider trading and do I really care?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:28:19 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
Why would he think that? He's smarter than the mythical character.
He's more moral than the mythical character. And he actually exists,
unlike the mythical character.

Exactly how do you determine how smart and how moral a non-existent
character is? Solving that problem ought to be similar to dividing
zero by zero...

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 3:55:12 AM UTC-4, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:28:19 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
Why would he think that? He's smarter than the mythical character.
He's more moral than the mythical character. And he actually exists,
unlike the mythical character.

Exactly how do you determine how smart and how moral a non-existent
character is? Solving that problem ought to be similar to dividing
zero by zero...

More to the point, peterson is unable to prove that Jesus was a "mythical character." Nor can he prove that chrisbcritter is either moral or smart.