The Second Century B. C.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:13:04 -0000 (UTC), Mike Collins
wrote:

Darwin was thwarted by misguided socialism. We pay the price, more so every day.


Please explain in detail.

Bearing in mind that such an explanation might end up being used as
evidence against him in a mental competency hearing.

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:20:37 -0600, Bill Gill
wrote:
On 1/17/2017 1:29 AM, Chris.B wrote:
On Monday, 16 January 2017 23:21:05 UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:
I found another book, with an even more relevant title...


https://archive.org/details/an_inves..._or_solar_syst
em-is_it_scientific_201612

but it also turns out to be by a flat earther.

John Savard

I have an absolute test of Flat Earthers beliefs.
One stands on a cliff edge and carefully notes the appearance of
a ship on the horizon.
Then one jumps while taking careful, handwritten notes of the
constantly changing appearance of the ship as one descends.
Later publication of the results can be made by arrangement with
the undertaker.
Or, if one is not allergic to modern technology:
One can use a camera drone to achieve much the same result but at
greater, personal expense.

Maybe not. If you include the cost of the funeral the
cost of jumping off the cliff will probably exceed the
cost of the drone

The cost of the funeral will hit you anyway sooner or later, unless
you somehow can become immortal. But immortality isn't cheaper, the
costs of living will soon exceed the cost of the funeral...

On Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 6:55:59 AM UTC, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:20:37 -0600, Bill Gill
wrote:
On 1/17/2017 1:29 AM, Chris.B wrote:
On Monday, 16 January 2017 23:21:05 UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:
I found another book, with an even more relevant title...


https://archive.org/details/an_inves..._or_solar_syst
em-is_it_scientific_201612

but it also turns out to be by a flat earther.

John Savard

I have an absolute test of Flat Earthers beliefs.
One stands on a cliff edge and carefully notes the appearance of
a ship on the horizon.
Then one jumps while taking careful, handwritten notes of the
constantly changing appearance of the ship as one descends.
Later publication of the results can be made by arrangement with
the undertaker.
Or, if one is not allergic to modern technology:
One can use a camera drone to achieve much the same result but at
greater, personal expense.

Maybe not. If you include the cost of the funeral the
cost of jumping off the cliff will probably exceed the
cost of the drone

The cost of the funeral will hit you anyway sooner or later, unless
you somehow can become immortal. But immortality isn't cheaper, the
costs of living will soon exceed the cost of the funeral...

Immortality isn't something that you don't die but rather some people never really live to discover the connection between the individual and the Universal as far as can be discerned. In the presence of love all things become immortal and so what if people frame it in bodily form as an expression for we pass through existence like a drop of water in an Eternal Ocean.

The dull and the dreary mock the Eternal in all things for nothing more than pretense but the nervous convictions that combines such a view as a consensus neither add nor subtract from the spiritual/inspirational which drives a person,a community, nation or the world to make a stronger connection to the individual to the planet and the wider Universe that makes life possible.

I hope denominational Christianity recovers its astronomical heritage that it so badly jettisoned all those centuries ago and thereby bring the inspirational and the physical back into contact once more and away from the voodoo and bluffing that serves nobody apart from those who live in their heads..

On Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 10:04:11 AM UTC, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

The dull and the dreary mock the Eternal in all things

I have suspected that Gerald is a Steady State Theory man for some years now.