Comments by Goldy

Comment #174563 by Goldy on May 2, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Small world. The object of my professional affections is a little piece of loose connective tissue containing a bunch of Type I and Type III (fibroblast products) surrounded by hard tissue containing mostly Type I (odontoblast product).

And you have an Earles fork Beemer. You are my soul brother!
Retro

I know, I know, one of you morons is going to give some stupid explanation. Can't wait!

If we did, would you listen? If you listen, would you think about what we say? Or, as I suspect would be the case, you'd not listen and not even consider entertaining thinking about the information we give you. Am I right? I do like to be proven wrong. And, getting back on topic, sort of, what beer do you drink?

1752. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174280 by Goldy on May 2, 2008 at 1:39 am

Strewth, Robo, that's too fast when the brain's a bit squiffy!

1753. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174279 by Goldy on May 2, 2008 at 1:38 am

Treatornis, what is your opinion of this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/business/worldbusiness/29oil.html

1754. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174250 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Mike, what's your master's on?

The role of Type I and Type III collagen in wound healing.
Oh...you meant t'other Mike. Sorry ;-)
Having one or two of these http://www.renaissancebrewing.co.nz/ while cooking sauerkraut. Wife went to the German butcher and one thing led to another. Austrian genes need feeding too...hic!

1755. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174243 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 11:33 pm

What is Mrs. Goldy's take on Tibet and the Olympic?

On Tibet - was always a part of China. Like Taiwan. Slowly realising that maybe if the people don't feel Chinese...but then there's Tibetans in all the neighbouring provinces...
Olympics...ummm, Go China, I guess. A sporting event, doesn't interest her unduly. The political aspect is not surprising. I think she feels those who express surprise at the rest of the world's reaction are bloody naive - after all, why would China hold the Olympics if not for political reasons? Duuuh!
Also, Richard Gere is resembling the Dalai Lama more and more... ;-)
Ressurection ales from Christchurch...man, they're good! Hic!

1756. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174197 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Don't get drunk and post online Goldy, like some guy I know was doing last night......;)

I think I was no longer allowed to actually get drunk since just before marriage. I am only allowed to reach squiffy. And by that stage I'm kind of at Zara's state of fuckitol so don't bother posting :-D
Geodensic17 - don't worry about thi..th1..blokey. He was sober. Think it was a he. And he thought we were elephants. No, hang on, sycophants....they're not pachyderms too, are they?

1757. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174193 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm

It shall be in...checks time...1 and a half hours for me :-D
Hic! I know all about holy spirits, me!

1758. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174192 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Bonzai

I don't think your wife would like it. From what I gather there is a lot of yellow journalism and I don't know how the author would know so much about Mao's private life unless she hid in his bedroom

I'd describe the book as a rather large diatribe, personally :-)
Face is rather important to Chinese - something a lot of westerners (like me - don't ask how I know!) don't really appreciate. I can understand you're bit about airing dirty laundry.
To say I'm underwhelmed by Shanghai is an understatement of biblical proportions. It really is not the place I read about in the media. Large building, frenetic building, cars everywhere, shops....it is third world. Good eating, mind - though I am wary of the food though my wife reminds me not everyone is dead yet so it must be OK :-)
I also tell the odd Chinese that if everything was OK, why the secrecy. Stumps them for a spell, but a mainlander student here is woefully ill-prepared for debate. I send my nephew in law (is there such a thing) as many articles as I can highlighting the difference between our media and Xinhua as I can to prepare him in case he has to come to NZ to study.
On another topic (what, go off topic? Moi??) - I see the torch is about to go through HK. BBC has a picture of a protester with a Tibet flag. Wonder if that one was made in China? :-)

1759. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174186 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Yeah, I think th1nk3r wrote his small piece while under the influence of sobriety...not one single mention of any form of beer. He even spelt wining wrong...

1760. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174174 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Bonzai, of course these are members of the urban middle class - a rapidly growing class :-)
OK, my wife's love of Mao is something to do with the 30-some years she was told what a great guy he was. She admits it's brainwashing. I suspect you'd have to ask a Christian about that - one can point out all the failings of the Bible but they still love it!
Yes, there is a multitude of Chinas. The western media do not dwell too much of them. We don't hear of the land grabs, we never see the deformed beggars in Shanghai, etc. I think that is one of the growing resentments Chinese have against the western media - we tend to focus on the bad, missing the good.
Regarding your judge - my wife would despise him as some parvenue, a real peasent in city clothes :-) No culture, no finesse, just a taste for whores and karaoke bars. A contemptible lickspittle, if I may put words in her mouth. Mind you, living in Auckland, she does sometimes feel like she's in a hick town...and there's no IKEA here!
It is hard to try and describe Mao - western and Chinese (mainland mainly, I guess) views are different, I guess. I have Mao, the untold story on the shelf at home. Wife wants to read it but can't - not yet.
FightingFalcon, they are moving from the bottom up. Seems we're moving from top down. We'll probably meet in the middle sometime soon ;-)

1761. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174141 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Bonzai, MPhil, you are both right. China has problems, problems a-plenty. Being poor and away from the centres of commerce means a sodding pissy life. They do not have what we in the west have and which apparently we in the west want to get rid of.
But talking to those that are here, those that study, that live, that are married outside of China, life is not as bad as you think. It is easy to circumvent things there, information is there for the taking and everyone knows how to get it...if they want (the recent BBC thing about truthful reporting shows many are as lazy as Fox news watchers). The things you describe have been a way of Chinese living since some bloke made unified the states under the Qin - saving money for rainy days is intrinsic to Chinese living and they do. Being told what to do is intrinsic to Chinese living and they know how to cope. And given the number of Chinese outside of China hearing our news, seeing our way of life, our health systems and social welfare, you think things will remain as they are? You think the CCP won't try and change things to avoid social unrest? Yes, corruption is really bad - always has been - and hinders progress. The CCP knows this, it knows its reputation is a bit crappy but it has lifted millions out of poverty and made sure that starvation is something grandparents tell their grandchildren about, as opposed to seeing the children die.
Sound like an spologist for the CCP, eh? Blame the wife - she still loves Mao :-) But as she tells me, it's easy to throw point out failings when you ignore your own...
Styrer, I agree totally with you. Steve, get your head out of your arse and get a grip. Pissing off isn't making any less theism!

1762. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #174137 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 6:11 pm

I am sure you can induce one by eating bacon and drinking the lard

Hmmmm, bacon....lard...drool.... ;-p

1763. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174125 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 5:19 pm

China is a closer approximation to "free market" than any European country and it has a lot of problems underneath GDP growth and corporate balance sheets

Wild west, I thought it was ;-) Coupled with a millenium or two of distrust of "foreigners" and you can either make a fortune or get royally shafted :-)
Doesn't help that everything is such a secret there - what we know of the economy is what they tell us and sometimes they don't really like to say much...

1764. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174122 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 5:15 pm

Of course in China civil liberties aren't further restricted... they're sufficiently marginalized already.

You'd be surprised how free one is over there. Not as bad as the media makes out. As my wife says, she doesn't notice any real difference unless one talks of travel - and that's all ok-ish now. Money talk loud there, corruption is a way of life and if you grew up under totalitarianism, you know the hoops to get around it :-) That which you really know will get you into trouble is what now gets us westerners into trouble (try demonstrating outside Number 10 these days!)
But I'll let you enjoy your drink. Friday today, I can buy beer. Also getting wife to buy beer yeast as the latest brew just isn't starting...

1765. Bill Good Interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #174114 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 4:43 pm

Of course, the Chinese have not shared our German-tainted history.

I think a bit did get through. They like Marx :-) And Tsintao was a German concession...

1766. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174112 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 4:40 pm

Shit, just realised the CAPITAL meme has infected me! Aaargh!!!

1767. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174111 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Man, Rev, that article shows something really rotten in Memphis.
Shame, I liked it there. Nice people at Memphis State (girlfriend at the time was doing a post doc there).
What do people have against public displays of affection. Why is it offensive to them, what right have they to intervene because THEY are offended?
Why do the religious snipers almost invariably come here with stupid posts. Some of you are actually quite nice people if you decide to stop and say something meaningful. Discussions can be had between us and you, some of them fruitful.
DickyD, what questions did you have that made you want to convert?

1768. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #174108 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 4:33 pm

FightingFalcon

Individual freedom is being rolled back in almost every country in the world

Not in China...or Cuba :-) It is in the west, I think. This "War on Terror" is the biggest load of personal restrictive hogwash I have come across. But I have to say, what my Chinese in-laws are getitng now is great. Even the BBC is unblocked (English language only). Of course, there is a bit of a cultural divide to cross - our truth is different from their truth, we were taugh one thing, they were taught something else but the two shall meet one day :-)

1769. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #174104 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 4:29 pm

You know, I never heard the term "ad hominem" until I came here.
The things one can pick up... :-)

1770. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #174085 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 3:10 pm

You should have also put "Jews living in the Middle East" 632 A.D.--->

That late? Daniel's tomb is in Iran - I think he was a BC character. Then there was Nebu...Nebuch.....Babylonian johnny with his population transfers. Old Abe was apparently from Ur and he's the originator or something.
Jews living in the Middle East since God was born :-)

Edit - think I got the wrong end of the stick here :-) Yep, plenty Jews in Islamic lands - some of the more famous "Islamic" scholars were Jews, methinks. Certainly European Jewry though flight to Islamic lands preferable to staying at home and being converted...

1771. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #174081 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Hmm, had to read back to see what was the RM fuss.
Why do the converted, reconverted always come out with the glazed eye, "love" shit? Spooky, creepy and somewhat...suspect.
God so loved the world, he made sure it was filled with agents of pain and death :-) Nice. We are his special creation, so he made sure without the machinations of man, childbirth kills.
Sorry, I don't get it - where is this love? How, conceivably, can a person see God in this world, filter out the nasty and see only the good - even when the good is because of humans.
The daycare my daughter goes to tells me she's "a gift from God". Balderdash - my wife and I had sex, our gametes met, fertilization occurred and things progressed naturally. No God involved. In fact, were it not for an Iraqi doctor (most probably in NZ because of a few disagreements concerning said god) performing caesarian section, I dare say wife and daughter would not be with me today.
Gift from God my arse. God so loves the world my arse.

1772. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173649 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 3:25 am

The beer works in mysterious ways....

Indeed! And tomorrow be Friday, Day of Drinking. After a lay off (sort of) during the week to attend to temple matters (my gut is, apparently, a temple to beer. Bugger) I can enjoy it's cool effervescence upon my tongue and worship the taste with devout burping.
10:30, wife a-bed, better join her or I'll not be seeing, never mind tasting, beer tomorrow!
G'nite - really and truly this time!

1773. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173645 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 3:15 am

I'm drinking Stella Artois

Hic! Where's yours brewed. Ours comes from the sunny shores of....Auckland - Khyber Pass Road at the Lion Brewery. Doesn't even sound Belgian! Brewed just down the road from where I work. Still sold for a $ extra in the restaurants and listed under imported beers.
A good analogy, to me at least, of what going to a religious person (rabbi, priest, pasta maker) with questions gets you. You think you have answers from on high, but really it's just something that's made at home...
Bastards!
:-D

1774. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173638 by Goldy on May 1, 2008 at 2:43 am

Just caught up on last night's chit-chat, and I'm surprised nobody commented on the above.

Someone mentioned beer and it kinda went from there :-)
Almost time for me to sleep :-)
Dick, questions? What sort of questions makes a man turn to gods? I know if I have any questions, there's generally an answer. If not, I know an answer will eventually appear. As it is, the apparently big questions (why are we here, etc) don't worry me - it doesn't matter.
Get a good woman, have children. That's why I am here now :-) The rest I leave to philosophers (cheers, MPhil! Get them answers for me soon...I'll think of the questions to go with the answers ;-)).
Maybe the questions you needed answering have the answers within you. Certainly no religious man can help you - they're just giving you the answers they think you want to hear. What makes a rabbi or priest a mouthpiece for a god? No more than Jesus (also a man - being God didn't help him much as he was nailed to a tree and now Islam is ascendant because God thought Mo was more important...or something. Maybe it was Gabrial having a joke...)
I lived in Holland for a short spell. Don't know any Dutch but since you mentioned your fluency, I thought I'd throw in the small bit I do know :-) See how nice we athiests are?
G'night all!
Oh - Emerson's beers from South Island somewhere. Very quaffable. And my homebrews...when they work ;-)

1775. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173528 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 8:46 pm

I am really extremely sad that Steve Zara is leaving

Me too. What gives?
I'll catch answer later...

1776. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173526 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm

Well, I'm off. Home time (bit early, I know - wife has bad morning sickness...at 3:45pm).
Tot ziens, all!

1777. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173523 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 8:44 pm

Please Gold, your information is patently false. It's coming into winter, so the flies have found somewhere warmer to be. Though, had you made that accusation some months ago...

Darwin?
I was in Melbourne a year last Xmas (see, cultural Christianity again!). First few days were the hottest I can remember since living in Abu Dhabi (this was at Hoppers Crossing). I told my parents, who were coming, how hot it was. They can, and so did the rains, tempratures plummeted and bugger me if there wasn't snow in the hills. Still more flies than I could imagine. Tenacious little buggers, sort that smack you back if you swat them away!
Still loved Melbourne. Might even try and get a job there...maybe...

1778. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173512 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 8:34 pm

They were not about oil

I was just pulling your leg too ;-)
Oh, and don't listen to Brian, he's in some fly infested haven for the world's most poisonous animals....
So, what converted you? (Dick, not Brian...)

1779. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173486 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 8:02 pm

Only reason I know where New Zealand is is because they filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy there, lol. Frodo lives!

You don't watch rugby, then?
Ernest Rutherford was a Kiwi. Scott set off for his ill fated jaunt to the South Pole from here. Ummm, I'm sure it's famous for other stuff too...thinks hard...errr....

OIL!

The post anti-Cathar crusades were about oil??

1780. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173477 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 7:51 pm

Goldy, didn't see your post there,
so you're down under, eh, kinda?

Any more under and I'll be in Antarctica :-)

1781. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173476 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 7:50 pm

were the Crusades necessarily a bad thing?

How do those of the more Islamic bent call western forces/cultural institutions in Iraq and Gaza again...?

1782. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173474 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 7:48 pm

As for the teapot argument, that is just so silly

Not a teapottist then.
Does, however, nicely illustrate how I see gods :-)

1783. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173461 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 7:33 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7368020.stm
Here's what pig farmers in a secular, culturally Islamic country (especially now after a little holocaust and ethnic cleansing or two) put up with. Today, in our "enlightened" times.
'm pretty sure this was not teh case in turn of the millenium Palestine...so what the hell were pigs, especially herds of them, doing there?
A parable on ethnic cleansing, maybe? A rage at Hellenisation, a coded message to tell the readers to kick the Romans out? Who knows...

1784. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173455 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Off topic question, what kind of scientist are you?

Seriously underpaid ;-)
I'm a technician at the university of Auckland, in the dept of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, though I hang around Pharmacology a fair bit. Looking at the metabolism of cyclophosphamide by CYP2C19 and CYP2B6 enzymes (for starters) with respect to lupus nephritis.
Take your point on Jesus - but you can't be sure he's the man you think he is, can you? Not after Paul got a-spin doctoring...
Cultural Christianity...you know, shops shutting on Sunday, Easter and Christmas being officcial holidays which one HAS to take off (and use one's leave to take the days off - can't work even if I want to at the Uni), that sort of thing. Also, in the UK, bishops get to put their fat arses into the House of Lords without any questions asked. Hmmmm!
So, what turned you to the dar....errr, what made you start beleiving in deities as opposed to yourself?

1785. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173398 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 6:07 pm

"Applying the scientific method" is not like following a manual.

More like following a recipe. Sometimes you have to deviate to try and get that which you are looking for...
Sometimes, though, it is like following a manual...

1786. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173397 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 6:05 pm

I love Jesus, he was a great man, even if he didn't exist, we could still learn from Jesus as a man, mythical man at the very least.

It is not Jesus you love but that which is attributable to him. In many cases you can say you love Paul, you love the direction the church has gone...but as you yourself say, Jesus might not have existed. How can you love him then, when even you are a bit wary of stating his existance outright?
No shame in loving ideas :-) That's what I liked about TGD - Dawkins just put to paper what I thought was right. I have no feelings at all for Richard.

1787. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #173394 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Human dignity is defined in the Cathechism and the Gospels

How do they define human dignity? Not as well as the OED, I assume...

but he has no authority on this matter and it puzzles me as to why so many love his book.

Because it resonates. And what authority does he need to complain about religion? I hate it adn I am a scientist. I have undergone years of cultural Christianity, put up with the bad as well as the good - what right does religion have to do this to me, a non-believer?
WHy do people love the Bible, the Torah, the (insert mythological anthology of choice)?

1788. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173360 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 5:00 pm

No, I said I have some INDIRECT frustrations between Evolution and ID.

Hmmm. I'll await what you mean by that. Still sounds to me like the difference between Jews for Jesus and Jesus' Jews...but what do I know, I'm just one of those godless athiests... ;-)

1789. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173320 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Back to the HPLC for me - don't expect quick replies :-) I shall be back...

1790. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173319 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 3:49 pm

This is your opinion, and I am not going to debate religion with anyone

Well, you said yourself you have frustrations between ID and evolution - frustrations of a philosophical nature. You then tell us you're a Jew that believes in Jesus but don't like Jews for Jesus for their political agenda.
All this on a site promoting athiesm. Now, call me old fashioned, but religious exploration is a given here. You also say you have the ability to differentiate what, to me, is an irrational belief in the supernatural being different from another irrational belief in the supernatural yet have frustration in the ability to see between research based theories and mythology based "theories" - why are you here again?
Religion is part and parcel of your frustration. To me, you are religious. I don't distinguish you from any other religious person - you can be a Jew that thinks Jesus is the Messiah and Odin is his brother in law and they both have a grudge against Bussha because his fence cuts through the corner of Maui's garden (Maui is a good buddy of Jesus and Odin) - it matters not to me.
I would like to know how your religious views cause you no frustration.

1791. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173313 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Golly, Truth, you situation sounds to me almost Pythonesque ;-)
Never mind, you can split your religions, so you shouldn't have any problems getting around science :-) Just like your Jewish thingy, one branch is accepted through facts and one branch has a political agenda. You can guess which is which...
See, easy peasy! You should now have no problems with evoolution and ID :-)

1792. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173300 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 3:27 pm

How do we deal with gaps in knowledge?

Initially educated guesses :-) When I was a student, a lot of what I learnt was stated as "It is hypothesised that...". Research goes on to try and answer the question - that's what science is about.
When we assume something, it is an educated assumption based on experience and on other factors - present day DNA can tell a about the past, like the relationships between species and a close approximation as to when they may have had a common ancestor. We see fossils of forms and infer by their morphology what they are and where they fit into the grand scheme of things.
Ultimately, though, gaos in knowledge are questions that need answering. Science does not pull out some mythology to answer it - a truthful scientist says "I don't know" and can then try and explain how something MIGHT (as in maybe - hypothesis) be, but more research is needed to be sure.
That's why sometimes the story changes :-) A concept religion should look into to try and get some credibility back...

1793. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173260 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 2:49 pm

Truth, you may have to register there. Clicking on your name tells me you don't exist.
You're not...God, are you? In which case, we athiests have been making a bit of a mistake all our lives ;-D

1794. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #173244 by Goldy on April 30, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I just got back from seeing Expelled. My opinion is that Ben Stein has made a very effective movie for his propaganda

It's made not even a ripple here in Aotearoa :-) Not as effective as I think he'd wish it to be.

With all this appeal to emotion it is little wonder that some, such as the gentleman who wrote that letter to Dawkins, have been so completely taken in. Stein plays on the (already widespread) fear of science, seeming to imply that we could be looking another Holacaust in the face if these sinister sceintists have their way. What do you think of all this?

You have to have a reasonably large religious population for this to work. Odd people here and maybe in the UK might go away thinking his movie has a point, but they sure as hell won't tell their friends that in case of ridicule. And given the speed people go to the doctors here when ill, methinks the fear of science is not as strong as you may think. Fear of religion, onthe other hand...well, grow a beard, get a tan and get on a bus with a rucksack and watch the people around you.

Personally I would object to the word "theory" being associated with ID. At best it is a conjecture, it has no body of evidence associated with it, it makes no predictions that can be tested or falsified

I agree, Epeeist, but we're also arguing with people to whom the full meaning of "theory" is a bit nebulous. Evolution is a theory, ergo it is not fact, ergo it is just an idea...sort of thing. Doesn't seem to apply to gravity, mind... ;-) I then apply the word to ID to show that this works both ways - evolution is a theory, ID is a theory. One theory can be tested and is backed up by a wealth of evidence, the other is derived from a series of Middle Eastern myths with European veneers.
I will state again that I personally see ID as more a philosophy and that it can be taught at universities and schools but not in science classes - lump it in the arts subjects.

1795. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #172677 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm

I'll keep them is storage awaiting your visit :-) Hey, you could even bring my dashboard... ;-)
After this, I'm going to try a chocolate beer. Have a heap of meads sitting slowly ageing too. Hope the honey I get at teh market is OK - had a scare recently...mind you, converting them to a neurotoxin, so what the hell am I worried about!
OK, catch you tomorrow!
Bis spater!
Tot ziens!

1796. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #172673 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Surely Darwin=Yahweh and Dawkins=Jesus?

Nah, think Darwin is Jesus and Dawkins maybe a Paul...though I don't think RD is a spin doctor like Paul.

1797. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #172671 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 9:22 pm

Jafa
Just another fucking Aucklander :-)
Though I believe NSW still has a claim to NZ...might need to check that...
Home time soon. Want to brew a manuka honey beer...

1798. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #172659 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 8:57 pm

Indeed. Always a pisser to the system wen there's people like us who just don't think like we're told!

1799. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #172656 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 8:46 pm

I don't understand why people who tell me there is only 1 god brindle at the mention of any other god. I mean, if there is only 1, why the fuss of others, who obviously don't exist (like, I must add, their own god :-))

1800. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #172651 by Goldy on April 29, 2008 at 8:40 pm

Riandouglas, it's OK. I've gone from Pom to latte-sipping Jaffa in the last 6 years :-) I can take all slings and arrows ;-)