Posts by Lion Cask

Dexter is no more a harbinger of the future of society than is Breaking Bad (which is another excellent production that's pushing the envelope). Now some of the video games our kids are playing ...

Season five of Dexter was not up to standard. It was perhaps Michael C. Hall's cancer that took the edge off his performance or maybe it was the writing. Some of the episodes were improbable to the point of being incredulous. I predict Season six will be the last.

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Things that JUST DON'T MATTER . . .

by nicolaou in

don't want this to turn into an irreligous rant, let's try to have a little fun .

things that just don't matter.

your neighbours religion.

Lion Cask

Your neighbours religion. It's all nonsense, merely different flavours - none of it matters.

Unless he is always knocking on your door insisting that his flavour is the only true flavour, then it matters because he is pissing me off.

Sexuality. It just doesn't matter.

What are you, a monk or something?

Knowing which wine goes with which food - give me a break! It doesn't matter.

You got this one wrong, too. Trust me on this one. I've been an unapologetic oenofile and gourmand for years. Wine pairings are absolutely important if you want to achieve the right culinary effect. You would not, for example, have an unoaked chardonnay with prime rib unless your tastebuds are completely out of whack.

Being popular. Why the hell do you want to be invited somewhere the host doesn’t want you? Real friends matter.

Yes and no. Real friends matter, but being poplular with influential people will improve your fortunes (and allow you to collect and enjoy good wine with your good food).

The style of your funeral. Not to be insensitive, but really, do you think it matters
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Only to the people you leave behind. The funeral is for them, not for you.

Television. Matters not one bit.

Depends what you mean by doesn't matter. From my perspective, any business that generates multiple billions of dollars annually is at least a little bit significant. But that's just me.

Size. Apparently it really doesn't matter!

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

In that case, the solution is not to match their dogmatical douchebaggery but to do what they can't do - operate without preconceptions and prejudices, and with the belief that you just might be wrong.

Eloquently expressed, Liberty93. I have been wrong many times in my life and certainly make no claims of infallibility. I'll leave that to the Pope and GB. But I'm definitely from Missouri on any subject that proposes the existence of anything supernatural. As to being a dogmatic douchebag, well, I suppose I've been called worse.

Can it all be easily dismissed - I don't think so.

I would have to say in response that coming to a contrarian perspective after several decades does not qualify as easy dismissal. However, in the present context one might well ask Why not? No evidence, no credibility. Case dismissed. If I tell you I have fairies living in my garden but I can't provide even a shred of evidence to your satisfaction, I would fully expect you to reach back into your own experience and knowledge and dismiss what I am telling you. At some point you just need to move on. And, no thank you, I'm not interested in reading a bunch of books or getting into some philosophical debate. Been there, done that, ad nauseum, not interested. Just point me in the direction of the evidence.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

This is a public forum in which people are expressing their perspectives, to which they are most certainly entitled, GomitSK. In the absense of a single, solitary, verifiable shred of evidence for what they posit in public they are also entitled to public skepticism and dismissal. I'm just doing my part to help rid the world of superstition and ignorance.

backatcha.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

Thank you, Black Sheep.

All I ask for, GromitSK, is evidence.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

There's a fine line between being respectful toward someone's beliefs and being patronising. However, I apologise for coming across as aggressive. I guess I am. But vehement? No. Not at all. My tendency to push back is a product of decades of exposure to people making incredulous claims solely on the basis of what they sincerely believe to be true, the proponents and apologists of the WTS being foremost. I will always, always go for the rational explanation, while others will always, always go for the mystical explanation.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

It could still be the explanation, jookbeard - maybe even more likely. The laser scanner in a CD player is located below the tray (ie, the CD is inserted with the data side oriented downward.) If the CD jammed and hung up just above the tray with sufficient clearance it would be possible to continue using the player. This explanation, I think, is more plausible than spirits messing around with your head.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

jookbeard, my theory re: your unexplained phenomenon (given that it happened in a multi-disk machine) is that the CD was not quite centered in the tray, it tipped up slightly as the tray rotated and its leading edge struck a slight protuberance inside the machine. As the tray continued to rotate the CD was levered upwards where it jammed in place inside the machine, and it stayed there for several months until it finally unseated itself and fell back onto the tray.

If you think this is a plausible explanation, it is. It happened to me. I lost a CD for a couple of months then one day when I rotated the tray to change disks there was the lost CD laying on top of one of the CDs I'd been playing most recently. Mystery solved.

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Is there a Logical explanation for the spooky things happening at my daughter, Ali's house?!?!!!!

by coffee_black in

jw
friends

ok.... looking for some logical explainations.... my daughter, ali, who i've been posting about on the forum...who has developed congestive heart failure.... has had some spooky experiences lately in her house.

here are a few of the things that happened:.

about a month ago, ali and her son david, heard noises from the attic above ali's bedroom...that sounded like something was being dragged across the attic floor.

Lion Cask

White Dove has is right. I wasn't calling you on anything, CB, just a couple of the well meaning folks who contributed to your thread.