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Oh i surely do. The shadows

Richard Day — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:33:02 +0000

Oh i surely do.

The shadows grow long and it is slightly above zero but it is just beautiful out there and how could not one believe in a little magic and a little God!

Let us keep worship and magic out in the wilderness where it belongs and out of our science texts at least as far as causes and results go!

I believe in magic.

Qnonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:11:28 +0000

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I believe in magic.

Don't worry, my family has

MrSmith1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:48:15 +0000

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Don't worry, my family has more than its share of rascals, scalawags and horse thieves.

Don't get me started on science and grants ... I usually need to be restrained from calling in and cursing out that Labor Day telethon each year, since they are reaping more money in one three day period for Muscular Dystrophy than people doing research for Spondylitis will receive over 20, if not 30 years. It's obscene. Especially given the fact that MD affects only about 30,000 people, and Spondylitis is estimated to affect as many as 2.4 million people in the U.S.

I think, therefore I don't

Richard Day — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:11:10 +0000

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I think, therefore I don't need to know anything more than what I've already been told.

hahahahahaha

I hereby render unto Smith (again on my own blog) the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog site, given to all of him from all of me. hahaha

What a genealogy!

I mean, I would be forced to look at illegal immigrants and horse thieves...hahahahaha

This is great!

Somewhere in this thread there must have been a smithy! ha

I do not know what THEY would say of course. But THEY witnessed through generations the Eerie Canal and the transcontinental RR and a host of inventions that changed the entire freeking world!

Pure science does not exist because corporations and politicians decide what to fund with the exception of the Steve Jobs in this world who begin in their garages. hahaha

But how are we going to endow our best and brightest to seek out the Jobs in this universe.

At any rate, as always, thanks for chiming in.

Any bastards that ban

MrSmith1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:00:19 +0000

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Any bastards that ban Shakespeare should be drawn, quartered, and burnt to a crisp, for the sake of all humanity. But never mind that. I think, therefore I am, has been replaced by, I think, therefore I don't need to know anything more than what I've already been told. When the pursuit of knowledge is boxed in and limited by pre-set beliefs you have a dangerous situation, where learning and intellectual curiousity become non-existent. I believe that politics and/or religion controlling education is anathema to a free society.

Side-note, mostly off-topic: I see there is another thread on Dagblog about someone banning The Tempest. Did I ever tell you that my tenth great grandfather on my mother's side of the family was Stephen Hopkins? He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact and the first European to allow a Native American to stay overnight in his home. His trip on the Mayflower was actually his second trip to America, his first being a trip to Jamestown in 1609. There was a shipwreck and he led a mutiny, which failed. He was sentenced to death, but pleaded for his life, using his wife and child back in England as the reason he needed to go on living. The judge agreed, and his life was spared and he went back to England, where evidently word of the shipwreck and the mutiny became known to a playwright named William Shakespeare, who incorporated them into the plot of The Tempest. I seem to have a most interesting collection of ancestors in my family tree, from 2nd cousins, philosopher John Locke (11 times removed) and Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (22 times removed) to a g-g-g-grandfather who was the deputy sheriff when Grover Cleveland was a sheriff in upstate NY, and I've already told you about my great grand uncle on my father's side, Isadore Burgoon, who was a 32nd degree Mason and was part of the electoral college from Ohio that elected Rutherford B. Hayes. I wonder what all of them would say about the dismantling / destruction of our independent educational system?