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QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 Originally posted by daveklepper As for the "Big Bang," the term was coined by a scholar who didn't believe it happened. He was using it in a derogatory sense. He believed that the universe is infinite in space and time (as do I). That would be Fred Hoyle, who was, for many years, the chief proponent of the "Steady State Universe." However, Hoyle, in the face of a ton of accumulating cosmological evidence, gave up on Steady State and, decades ago, publicly accepted the concept of the Big Bang. Which was not an explosion in any sense, just a rapid expansion. Jack Reply jeaton Member sinceSeptember 2002 From: Rockton, IL 4,821 posts Posted by jeaton on Thursday, May 5, 2005 12:20 PM "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay "We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics Reply dharmon Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Bottom Left Corner, USA 3,420 posts Posted by dharmon on Thursday, May 5, 2005 12:22 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] Reply gabe Member sinceMarch 2004 From: Indianapolis, Indiana 2,434 posts Posted by gabe on Thursday, May 5, 2005 12:34 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] After?[:0][:0] Reply selector Member sinceFebruary 2005 From: Vancouver Island, BC 23,330 posts Posted by selector on Thursday, May 5, 2005 1:19 PM So, my waist expansion mirrors that of the Universe? I guess it IS natural to expand with age. [:D] Reply ajmiller Member sinceOctober 2003 From: State College PA 344 posts Posted by ajmiller on Thursday, May 5, 2005 1:22 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] Well, I'm glad I wasn't around when that started! Reply dharmon Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Bottom Left Corner, USA 3,420 posts Posted by dharmon on Thursday, May 5, 2005 1:28 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] After?[:0][:0] I don't remember much about being there. The fembots were using thier mind control devices on me...... Reply egmurphy Member sinceJanuary 2003 From: Mexico 2,629 posts Posted by egmurphy on Thursday, May 5, 2005 3:35 PM QUOTE: csx engineer: ...there is always PBS with are you being served..the mad adder... At the risk of sounding like a rivet counter, that's Black Adder. Just happens to be my personal favorite among the Brit humor programs. See: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/bladder.htm Note that this website also has Monty Python stuff, and Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?........ "Black Adder, Black Adder, he rides a pitchblack steed, Black Adder, Black Adder, he's very bad indeed......" [{(-_-)}] Regards Ed The Rail Images Page of Ed Murphy "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." - James Michener Reply csxengineer98 Member sinceOctober 2002 From: US 2,358 posts Posted by csxengineer98 on Thursday, May 5, 2005 4:07 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: csx engineer: ...there is always PBS with are you being served..the mad adder... At the risk of sounding like a rivet counter, that's Black Adder. Just happens to be my personal favorite among the Brit humor programs. See: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/bladder.htm Note that this website also has Monty Python stuff, and Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?........ "Black Adder, Black Adder, he rides a pitchblack steed, Black Adder, Black Adder, he's very bad indeed......" [{(-_-)}] Regards Ed my bad...at least i got the last part of the titel right..lol... csx engineer "I AM the higher source" Keep the wheels on steel Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 5, 2005 5:43 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] Wish I got a BIG BANG at HOOTERS!!! LC Reply Edit Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, May 5, 2005 5:50 PM Which deadly sin are you talking about? Gluttony or lust?[}:)] Andrew Reply espeefoamer Member sinceNovember 2003 From: West Coast 4,122 posts Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, May 5, 2005 6:07 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by Nuclearwinter Prayer happens the moment you car stalls and the cross bars come down and you hear the horn. Prayer is the second thing.The first is a rapidly opening door,followed by the cry "Feet don't fail me now "[:0]!!! Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool. Reply csxengineer98 Member sinceOctober 2002 From: US 2,358 posts Posted by csxengineer98 on Thursday, May 5, 2005 8:40 PM im going to use the holy hang granade of antioc on this thread.... csx engineer "I AM the higher source" Keep the wheels on steel Reply ajmiller Member sinceOctober 2003 From: State College PA 344 posts Posted by ajmiller on Thursday, May 5, 2005 8:57 PM Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." -- Monty Python, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Reply dharmon Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Bottom Left Corner, USA 3,420 posts Posted by dharmon on Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:51 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by ajmiller Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." -- Monty Python, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Now that's more like it...RIGHT! ....or one of my personal favorites... He's not dead. He most certainly is! He's just pining for the fjords.. Reply Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, May 5, 2005 10:17 PM Let there be osilating light and he shall bring an AC6000CW from whence it was spawned and bring forth a legion of horse power and it will thunder forth forthwith a 100 doublestacks behind and great speed.The number of the beast will be 666. The ground shall shake and a terrible noise shall echo forth from the beast as it lunges forth toward the gates. The gates shall go down and the beast shall ru***hrough them blocking out all travellers from passing on the otherside. The way will be shut for a several minutes and it upon conclusion the gates shall open up and the way shall be restored once more. Andrew Reply ajmiller Member sinceOctober 2003 From: State College PA 344 posts Posted by ajmiller on Thursday, May 5, 2005 11:22 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon ....or one of my personal favorites... He's not dead. He most certainly is! He's just pining for the fjords.. Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 6, 2005 12:02 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac Originally posted by TheAntiGates Perhaps you should actually READ the book of Genesis and point this out to us, because as one with a Masters degree in theology I am certain that Genesis is completely silent on what may or may not be on other planets. Ron Well, *that* is exactly the point! Genesis is very clear about what he did create and what he didn't... And it doesn't say he created planets around the other stars, and it says he created life on earth.. All it mentions of an extraterrestrial nature is the stars, sun, and moon, supposedly set in the "firmament" of the heavens.. So while we are at it, just what is this "firmament of the heavens"? Is that the body that the sun is "stuck" to? rofl! This is what thay call and "argument from silence" which in any critical study, biblical or otherwise, is a fallicy. The fact that something is never mentioned proves only that it is not discusses and cannot be construed as "proof" that is does not exist. The same principle applies not only to biblical studies but to philosopgy, literature, law, etc. Therefore this argument holds no water. Ron Ahhh, so what you are saying is, that there is so much more to life than what is covered in the bible? That must be what the catholic priests tell the choir boys? Reply Edit daveklepper Member sinceJune 2002 20,096 posts Posted by daveklepper on Friday, May 6, 2005 3:25 AM Thanks! Reply Mookie Member sinceJune 2001 From: US 13,488 posts Posted by Mookie on Friday, May 6, 2005 6:40 AM Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw Reply cherokee woman Member sinceNovember 2003 From: Louisville, KY 9,002 posts Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:26 AM Mookie, must be a "guy thing". I don't understand or like Monty Python myself. cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist." Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:30 AM Mook and CW, I'm a guy and was never into MP. More of a "Stooges" fan. Reply Edit oltmannd Member sinceJanuary 2001 From: Atlanta 11,971 posts Posted by oltmannd on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:33 AM ...considering where this thread was headed - despite Gabe's excellent attempt - winding up on Monty Python isn't such a bad thing.....is it? -Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/) Reply Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:51 AM Does anybody plan on writing a train bible? Andrew Reply edblysard Member sinceMarch 2002 9,265 posts Posted by edblysard on Friday, May 6, 2005 8:05 AM Already have one... Its called the GCOR..... just like my American express, I dont leave home without it! Ed 23 17 46 11 Reply gabe Member sinceMarch 2004 From: Indianapolis, Indiana 2,434 posts Posted by gabe on Friday, May 6, 2005 8:44 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo My wife loves it--probably more than me. I think Life of Brian was their crowning achievement she thinks The Search for the Holy Grail is all that. Reply Hugh Jampton Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Southern Region now, UK 820 posts Posted by Hugh Jampton on Friday, May 6, 2005 9:03 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo Women who enjoy Monty Python are like female railfans,, few and far between. So finding one who likes both would be like finding the Holy Grail. Generally a lurker by natureBe AlertThe world needs more lerts.It's the 3rd rail that makes the difference. Reply Hugh Jampton Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Southern Region now, UK 820 posts Posted by Hugh Jampton on Friday, May 6, 2005 9:08 AM and another thing,, when poor Mr.(?) Conely comes back to see what s**t he's stirred he'll be most dissapointed that his topic has degenerated into a discussion about M.P. and has given us a lot of laughs. Generally a lurker by natureBe AlertThe world needs more lerts.It's the 3rd rail that makes the difference. Reply « First«3456789 Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. 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Originally posted by daveklepper As for the "Big Bang," the term was coined by a scholar who didn't believe it happened. He was using it in a derogatory sense. He believed that the universe is infinite in space and time (as do I).
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0]
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "Rapid Expansion"? I'm sure glad I wasn't around when it started. LOL Jay No kidding...that's what I got after I had wings at Hooters yesterday....[:0] After?[:0][:0]
QUOTE: csx engineer: ...there is always PBS with are you being served..the mad adder...
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: csx engineer: ...there is always PBS with are you being served..the mad adder... At the risk of sounding like a rivet counter, that's Black Adder. Just happens to be my personal favorite among the Brit humor programs. See: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/bladder.htm Note that this website also has Monty Python stuff, and Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?........ "Black Adder, Black Adder, he rides a pitchblack steed, Black Adder, Black Adder, he's very bad indeed......" [{(-_-)}] Regards Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by Nuclearwinter Prayer happens the moment you car stalls and the cross bars come down and you hear the horn.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ajmiller Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." -- Monty Python, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon ....or one of my personal favorites... He's not dead. He most certainly is! He's just pining for the fjords..
QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac Originally posted by TheAntiGates Perhaps you should actually READ the book of Genesis and point this out to us, because as one with a Masters degree in theology I am certain that Genesis is completely silent on what may or may not be on other planets. Ron Well, *that* is exactly the point! Genesis is very clear about what he did create and what he didn't... And it doesn't say he created planets around the other stars, and it says he created life on earth.. All it mentions of an extraterrestrial nature is the stars, sun, and moon, supposedly set in the "firmament" of the heavens.. So while we are at it, just what is this "firmament of the heavens"? Is that the body that the sun is "stuck" to? rofl! This is what thay call and "argument from silence" which in any critical study, biblical or otherwise, is a fallicy. The fact that something is never mentioned proves only that it is not discusses and cannot be construed as "proof" that is does not exist. The same principle applies not only to biblical studies but to philosopgy, literature, law, etc. Therefore this argument holds no water. Ron Ahhh, so what you are saying is, that there is so much more to life than what is covered in the bible? That must be what the catholic priests tell the choir boys? Reply Edit daveklepper Member sinceJune 2002 20,096 posts Posted by daveklepper on Friday, May 6, 2005 3:25 AM Thanks! Reply Mookie Member sinceJune 2001 From: US 13,488 posts Posted by Mookie on Friday, May 6, 2005 6:40 AM Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw Reply cherokee woman Member sinceNovember 2003 From: Louisville, KY 9,002 posts Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:26 AM Mookie, must be a "guy thing". I don't understand or like Monty Python myself. cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist." Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:30 AM Mook and CW, I'm a guy and was never into MP. More of a "Stooges" fan. Reply Edit oltmannd Member sinceJanuary 2001 From: Atlanta 11,971 posts Posted by oltmannd on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:33 AM ...considering where this thread was headed - despite Gabe's excellent attempt - winding up on Monty Python isn't such a bad thing.....is it? -Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/) Reply Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, May 6, 2005 7:51 AM Does anybody plan on writing a train bible? Andrew Reply edblysard Member sinceMarch 2002 9,265 posts Posted by edblysard on Friday, May 6, 2005 8:05 AM Already have one... Its called the GCOR..... just like my American express, I dont leave home without it! Ed 23 17 46 11 Reply gabe Member sinceMarch 2004 From: Indianapolis, Indiana 2,434 posts Posted by gabe on Friday, May 6, 2005 8:44 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo My wife loves it--probably more than me. I think Life of Brian was their crowning achievement she thinks The Search for the Holy Grail is all that. Reply Hugh Jampton Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Southern Region now, UK 820 posts Posted by Hugh Jampton on Friday, May 6, 2005 9:03 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo Women who enjoy Monty Python are like female railfans,, few and far between. So finding one who likes both would be like finding the Holy Grail. Generally a lurker by natureBe AlertThe world needs more lerts.It's the 3rd rail that makes the difference. Reply Hugh Jampton Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Southern Region now, UK 820 posts Posted by Hugh Jampton on Friday, May 6, 2005 9:08 AM and another thing,, when poor Mr.(?) Conely comes back to see what s**t he's stirred he'll be most dissapointed that his topic has degenerated into a discussion about M.P. and has given us a lot of laughs. Generally a lurker by natureBe AlertThe world needs more lerts.It's the 3rd rail that makes the difference. Reply « First«3456789 Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. 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QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac Originally posted by TheAntiGates Perhaps you should actually READ the book of Genesis and point this out to us, because as one with a Masters degree in theology I am certain that Genesis is completely silent on what may or may not be on other planets. Ron Well, *that* is exactly the point! Genesis is very clear about what he did create and what he didn't... And it doesn't say he created planets around the other stars, and it says he created life on earth.. All it mentions of an extraterrestrial nature is the stars, sun, and moon, supposedly set in the "firmament" of the heavens.. So while we are at it, just what is this "firmament of the heavens"? Is that the body that the sun is "stuck" to? rofl! This is what thay call and "argument from silence" which in any critical study, biblical or otherwise, is a fallicy. The fact that something is never mentioned proves only that it is not discusses and cannot be construed as "proof" that is does not exist. The same principle applies not only to biblical studies but to philosopgy, literature, law, etc. Therefore this argument holds no water. Ron
QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac Originally posted by TheAntiGates Perhaps you should actually READ the book of Genesis and point this out to us, because as one with a Masters degree in theology I am certain that Genesis is completely silent on what may or may not be on other planets. Ron Well, *that* is exactly the point! Genesis is very clear about what he did create and what he didn't... And it doesn't say he created planets around the other stars, and it says he created life on earth.. All it mentions of an extraterrestrial nature is the stars, sun, and moon, supposedly set in the "firmament" of the heavens.. So while we are at it, just what is this "firmament of the heavens"? Is that the body that the sun is "stuck" to? rofl!
Originally posted by TheAntiGates Perhaps you should actually READ the book of Genesis and point this out to us, because as one with a Masters degree in theology I am certain that Genesis is completely silent on what may or may not be on other planets. Ron
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Ok - does anyone know of a female out there that actually enjoys or understands Monty Python? I fail to see the humor in them and the driver just thinks they are great! Is this truly the difference in the sexes (can I say that on the forum?) Moo
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