If Galileo had come to lit

[LukkyKnight]

...he never would have been able to say, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." with a straight face.

 

[tastygroove]

Figaro-Magnifico

 

[Problem Child]

Everyone who responds to a troll from now on is going on ignore.

 

[tulip2lipservice]

I know a chuckle came

to my mind as I read such words Lukky. Again thank you! Oh for good measure and admiration Hugssssssss!!!

Peace,
Tulip

 

[LukkyKnight]

any time, tulip

Everyone who responds to a troll from now on is going on ignore.

They suffer, PC, from a condition first identified succinctly by H. L. Mencken, who once said, "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

The trolls, that is.

 

[Problem Child]

Re: any time, tulip

They suffer, PC, from a condition first identified succinctly by H. L. Mencken, who once said, "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

The trolls, that is.

hehe...I think I'll go read a little Mencken tonight.

First I gotta put about three more sadsacks on ignore.

 

[tswyk]

sad sack
Function: noun
Date: 1943
: an inept person; especially : an inept soldier
- sad-sack adjective

 

[LukkyKnight]

Ya mean it has nothing to do with depressed scrotums?

 

[tswyk]

Ya mean it has nothing to do with depressed scrotums?

YUCK!!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Scrotums need love too, ya know?

~LOL~

I had not imagined I could evoke such a response from tswyk. I must remember to think more carefully henceforth.

 

[tswyk]

Well, this belle likes her scrotums happy...not depressed!!!

 

[teddybear4play]

Everyone who responds to a troll from now on is going on ignore.

I have a feeling you're going to be feeling lonely very soon.

TB4p

 

[LukkyKnight]

Oh me too!

Well, ONE anyway.

 

[Problem Child]

I have a feeling you're going to be feeling lonely very soon.

TB4p

I enjoy my own company more than I do 85% of the intellectual Zsa Zsa Gabor's here anyway, so it'll work out either way.

 

[Rubyfruit]

That's the same way I feel about pornography for the most part, PC.

How are you babe?

 

[LukkyKnight]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Galileo's key insight was to consider not just motion, but also the change of motion, acceleration. His alleged demonstration from the Tower of Pisa was not a private experiment but a public challenge to the professors and philosophers who accepted Aristotle rather than think for themselves. (see: The Crime of Galileo, by G. de Santillana.) They became trollish.

Galileo was summoned to meet with Cardinal Bellarmine, the principal theologian in the Catholic church in 1616. Bellarimine warned Galileo of the error of the opinion that the Earth moves around the Sun, and admonished Galileo to abandon it. The trolls were ecstatic, though Galileo believed he was protecting the church from embarrassing itself (by making pronouncements on matters that were becoming the province of science.) An eloquent man, Galileo wrote of one of his detractors, "I cannot refrain from marveling that Sarsi will persist in proving to me, by authorities, that which at any moment I can bring to the test of experiment."

Be glad that Laurel runs a more open-minded shop than the Catholic Church of the 1600s.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?

And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night.
Now I'm doing time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Everyone who responds to a troll from now on is going on ignore.

I responded to Hannsypansy.


Oh this is soooo cool. Now I can say all the things I wanted to say to PC and he can't see it.

Hey! No one quote me!!!!

 

[scrymettet]

I responded to Hannsypansy.


Oh this is soooo cool. Now I can say all the things I wanted to say to PC and he can't see it.

Hey! No one quote me!!!!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Let the record show I am NOT quoting KM

 

[Ishmael]

Trivia

ad nauseum.

Galileo was also a violinist.

What started him on his path was a pair of rails and a ball. He noticed that the ball rolled faster as it traveled down the rails.

He marked the rails and played the violin, at that time music was the best way to measure small increments of time. He extrapolated the acceleration curve and then began his experiments with objects in free fall.

All because of music.

Ishmael

 

[Backyard sweaty]

He wouldn't have been able to use the keyboard?

 

[LukkyKnight]

I'm certain he'd have grasped the use of the keyboard readily, the man had an amazing ability to synthesize facts and extrapolate from them.