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hopper

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  1. Oh no! "snow" - that's got to be a bad sign?
  2. "Frog from Hell" ??!? well... it's obvious they have their 'facts' wrong - I mean, really, "70-million-years-old"? That's like older than dirt! And they even admit they're confused - first they call it a frog and then they call it a horned toad cousin... I mean, sure, I have this one cousin who... well, nevermind... but what's next... "it was red and scaley, had a bifurcated tail, and carried a hayfork"? No, I think it being found where it was probably indicates that pygmy Madagascar toad-hunters prolly just caught one and did unnatural things to it - they're always shrinkin' heads and doing body modifications like putting in lip plates and other face work, lengthening their necks or putting in hair extensions, piercing their ears or belly button or nose, getting silicone implants, getting dentists to fill cavities in their teeth, dressing pets in people clothes, getting cybernetic cochlear assimilation implants, and stuff like that. They prolly were just sittin' around one day and thought, "hmmm... hey George, how big do you think we can make a toad look?" You know, a squashed beach ball is really not all that big. Peruvian pygmies were able to make giant penguins using the same lost ancient technologies, and really, really old pygmies were able to make lizards look ginormous and stage mock 'dinosaur' battles for puppet shows. Their children loved them. And I even heard there was this old pygmy woman who lived in a shoe, who was able to genetically alter bean DNA to make this huuuuuge beanstalk. That's what I heard, anyway. Those pygmies.... what'll they think of next?
  3. It's mostly a matter of how a survey is conducted - mostly. *hops off to think up Worthy polls on the War of Northern Aggression, Abraham Lincoln, and 8-track tapes.*
  4. Everyday is a nice day to worship, and even to do so at church. Saturday is a nice day to worship too. To be honest, if I follow John III. 30 in the Geneva Bible, "He muft increafe, but I muft decreafe", I might find it a wee bit difficult to only worship on the one day; and while I agree that God created the seventh day special while resting on it also ("For in the feuenth day God ended his worke which hee had made , and the feuenth day hee refted from all his worke,which he had made. So God bleffed the feuenth day, and fanctified it , becaufe that in it he had refted from all his worke,which God created and made." - Genefis II. 2,3), it's rather difficult to know just exactly when that day corresponds in our present calculations - i.e. even God didn't specify the minutae involved in making such determinations. I'm not one to authoritatively assert that it is definately not from sundown to sundown Jerusalem time on our present day of Saturn (Saturday), but I have great doubt that it does so year to year and generation to generation in some miraculous way, especially given the times in our history when God seems to have somewhat made time stand still (at least in whatever calculations of such God specified at Creation). Sure, one might claim the Church (or maybe just Peter) has authority to determine such things ("...whatfoeuer thou fhalt bind vpon earth,fhallbe bound in heauen..." - S.Matt. XVI.19), but then we might need to not only decide which day is the seventh but whether or not a particular gathering of Christians (or just the one - Peter) is authoritatively representative of the whole on a continual basis for any and all needs in calculating the minutae of determining the seventh day.
  5. Don't mess with my family, you liver-lovin' crows! We gots ways ta explode you ain't even seen yet, and we ain't afeared ta use 'em!
  6. from "Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics " by Ronald Sandler
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