"I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing."

- Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 166–167
The Bard of Avon

Beverly

"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute."  Unknown

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Quote from: Chris on January 28, 2008, 01:18:49 AM
"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute."  Unknown

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lololol I laughed at that one Chris.  Except I think they got it down to .99c a minute now!   Mr/Mrs. Unknown must have wrote that when it first came out!

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings -- preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.   - Hillary Clinton

Quote from: Natasha on January 28, 2008, 05:50:45 PM
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings -- preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.   - Hillary Clinton

While I am not really a Hillary fan, this is a good quote.  Thanks.

"When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics."

Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)

Quote from: Chris on January 28, 2008, 01:18:49 AM
"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute."  Unknown

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ROFL    you nut! LOL

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I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.

Gene Wilder

tink

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.  Moliere

"My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one."   Bob Hope

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

OMG Chris, I swear...I could be having the toughest day ever, but you always make my day...LOL   

"It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave."

Theophile Gautier

tink

Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.

John McCain (upon being called a carpetbagger by a voter when he first ran for office because he had only lived in Arizona a short while)

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.  - Stephen Hawking

Quote from: Tink on January 29, 2008, 10:14:03 PM
OMG Chris, I swear...I could be having the toughest day ever, but you always make my day...LOL   

tink

see princes I make u laugh all da time

All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." Homer Simpson

Hi here is one for those who are interdimentionally inclined.

We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful.
- Sir William Crookes, 1879

Cindy

Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player.  The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.   

Sidney Denham

tink

"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."  unknown

"Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."

- Stephen Hawking

Other animals give us a lesson in self-control:  the cat, for instance, whose wisdom is a model because it combines the most intent passion with the calmest indifference.  Motionless it plans its leap, and performs it exactly; the strength of its muscles is matched by its relaxation in repose; in sleep it has the abandon of an infant, yet its instinct is ever alert; it can fall without danger because it does not resist; hunting and fighting are games of pure pleasure for it, it hunts with rancor and plays without an object; it is ever ready to attack without animosity, and to defend itself without apprehension; being indifferent to victory, it cannot feel defeat.

            Serenity comes from independence.

            This independence, to be created in oneself, is not indifference, but neutrality with regard to the impressions received from without – whether pretty or ugly, good or bad, happy or sad, pleasant or unpleasant.  It is one thing to observe these qualities and quite another to let them affect our moods.

Isha De Lubicz

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Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill

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