From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: Who? Me?
Date: 24 Nov 92 05:48:16 GMT
Organization: animal -- coelomate -- deuterostome

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"
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