Recent content by Anders

Re: What's in an alien??? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Hemoman\")</div> Aliens are easy. An alien is any life form that thinks like we do only differently. By this definition, I am married to an alien. From my guy perspective, women are the aliens. They are similar enough to us to make us...

Re: What are they doing? What does it look like now? It kind of looks like someone plans to put up some sort of temporary barrier around the new plantings. And Star, a stick with a number of notches cut into it driven into the ground works much better. You rub another stick across the notches...

Re: Consciousness <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"StarLord\")</div> Star, this is called promissory materialism, a device used with some success by the evolution disputants. Someday, when we have more evidence, the fuzzy edges of our pet theory will all come into focus and make perfect sense...

Re: Consciousness <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"TheHeggy\")</div> While dogs and dolphins may display personality and, simply by vitue of being alive are aware of themselves, I doubt it's on the same order as human self-awareness. I doubt that dogs and dolphins think about their thinking...

Consciousness Everyone spends so much time discussing the "how was it done?" questions that no one seems curious about the fact that we are able to ask such questions at all. Is it just evolutionary inertia that results in our being able to consider such things? Is consciousness an end result...

Re: The Grandmother Paradox With thoughts like these, let's just hope that the universe is in fact infinite. If there exists a universe of possibilities for timelines, we are going to need somewhere to put them all.;)

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Is it possible that Douglas Addams was right about the role of the president (e.g. Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, a title better known by its acronym), that the job of the president is to draw attention...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Is it possible that Douglas Addams was right about the role of the president (e.g. Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, a title better known by its acronym), that the job of the president is to draw attention...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? I'm afraid that I'm glad this is over. I feel really bad for the Schindlers who seem to have gotten the feces covered end of the stick from start to finish throughout this ordeal. I feel bad for the husband in that he is going to live under...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? I'm afraid that I'm glad this is over. I feel really bad for the Schindlers who seem to have gotten the feces covered end of the stick from start to finish throughout this ordeal. I feel bad for the husband in that he is going to live under...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Cary, isn't everyone going over their will and/or living will to make appropriate adjustments? My code words are Bullwinkle for "let me live" and Boris for "pull the plug", I think because Bullwinkle is mostly glottal consonants that are...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Cary, isn't everyone going over their will and/or living will to make appropriate adjustments? My code words are Bullwinkle for "let me live" and Boris for "pull the plug", I think because Bullwinkle is mostly glottal consonants that are...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Sue, I'm not Catholic, but I think communion is part of the last rites. I believe Vatican II referred to it as Viaticum, via (way) tecum (with you), as if to imply that by having communion just before you die, the Lord's presence in...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Sue, I'm not Catholic, but I think communion is part of the last rites. I believe Vatican II referred to it as Viaticum, via (way) tecum (with you), as if to imply that by having communion just before you die, the Lord's presence in...

Re: Could this be the rift that starts the civil war? Wolf, I don't think anyone in the government is going to be foolish in that regard because I think this whole thing has been a manipulation of the emotions of everyone who has taken even a passing interest in this woman's situation by the...