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- From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Who? Me?
- Message-ID: <102974@bu.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 05:48:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.185554.4275@hsr.no>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: animal -- coelomate -- deuterostome
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- You are really better off hitting "n" right now. I've posted some
- phenomenally incoherant and irrelevent things in the past, but
- this _has_ to take the cake. Tangent city. Add smileys liberally,
- if you find yourself getting confused or disoriented.
-
- In article <1992Nov22.185554.4275@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
-
- >Chris Colby wrote:
-
- >>[...] Honest confusion would only be
- >>possible if you were completely stupid (or Onar, or something 8-)
-
- >Do I sense a certain juvenile arrogance?
-
- You do if you have even a rudimentary level of reading comprehesion 8-)
-
- Seriously Onar, it's a joke -- hence the "8-)". If you are really
- offended, then I apologise for the comment. But, I will add that if
- you are offended by anything I say, you are taking my postings
- far to godamn seriously. Some people seem to think t.o. is
- a forum where a great debate is going on; others, like myself,
- realize the debate, in outbred circles, ended about 150 years ago
- and just enjoy laughing until we nearly wet our pants at the obscenely
- childish and constrained worldviews of certain members of this
- board. We also enjoy sending a flame or two down the phonelines.
- I mean, if you can't cravenly denigrate some faceless person
- halfway across the globe with little or no provocation, then what
- good is USENET? 8-) 8-)
-
- Although I will occasionally post something with a little content,
- these days I would rather post a flame that people will read and
- perhaps get a chuckle over than a post about biology that everyone
- will skip. It's childish. It's stupid. But, what can I say? -- it
- sorta slays me. Like in _Catcher in the Rye_, my favorite novel
- of all time that I just finished reading for the 23rd time, when
- Holden staggers out of the bar and pretends he's been shot and is
- holding his guts in. He knows it's corny, but what the hell?
-
- BTW, to randomly change the subject and quit addressing Onar
- specifically, I've been thinking about the Norse myth
- that someone, whose name I won't even attempt to spell, I mean
- I still haven't ever spelled Jim Merrrittts name correctly even
- once, posted recently (jeeze, could my sentence structure get
- any worse here do ya think?). And since my ancestors were Norse,
- I decided to read up on it a bit and I found it actually makes
- some predictions. For instance the first living being mentioned
- in the creation story is Ymir, the frost giant. He is formed in
- the vastness of Ginnungagap, the void between Muspell (a region
- of flames) and Nilfheim (a region of ice.) Clearly this is predicting
- that life formed in space (a void, Ginnungagap) as ice melted from
- a comet as it neared the sun! Also, the world was formed from the
- body of Ymir after Odin (the allfather - head god in the Norse
- pantheon) and his brothers, Vili and Ve, killed him. The brothers
- used his blood for the oceans (as Tryglode -- this is almost
- assurredly spelled wrong -- pointed out, blood and sea water are
- roughly equally salty) and threw his brains into the air and they
- became clouds. Recall that brains have neurons that conduct electrical
- impulses. A really big brain, like the brain of a frost giant such as
- Ymir, would have really large impulses. Thus, Norse mythology predicts
- that lightning should come from clouds!! Also, the three gods made the
- humans that populated earth out of two trees -- indicating that humans
- should show evidence of being modified with descent, not designed
- from scratch!!!
-
- So to all you heathen skoffers out there who have
- turned your back on Odin, Thor and Freyr -- just wait 'til Ragnarok!!!
- Of course, everyone is equally screwed at Ragnarok, so I don't
- know why I even bring this up. The Vikings were a bit on the pessimistic
- side of gloomy and fatalistic (they didn't yet have their new coach,
- Dennis Greene ;-) ) and they weren't afraid to show it when they weren't
- too busy raping or pillaging or hewing things or rending things asunder
- -- things the Vikings were uniquely good at. That had to look swell on
- a resume', don't ya think? Interviewer: "Yes, I see but we really don't
- need anything rent asunder right now... can you type?" Viking: "Rrrrr!"
-
- Anyway, just some random (and I do mean random) thoughts.
-
- >Onar.
-
- Chris Colby --- email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu ---
- "'My boy,' he said, 'you are descended from a long line of determined,
- resourceful, microscopic tadpoles--champions every one.'"
- --Kurt Vonnegut from "Galapagos"
-