Posted on 01/10/2006 4:51:17 AM PST by tpeters
Shhh. Nobody tell him or her, and I might be able to keep it going.....
The teaching of the ToE is illegal in Saudi Arabia.
Not to be overly optimistic, but one could read ID as a soft landing way to move YECs toward reality. I notice some of the ID biggies are now on record accepting common descent and a reasonable age for the earth. Some (Denton) have moved completely to naturalism plus fine tuning.
Getting a kick out of you discussing the height of your children...my brother was 6'8", all my uncles and male cousins were well over 6 ft...my dad was the shortie, at 5'10"...at family gatherings he said he felt like a midget...my mom was 5'9" or so, still tall for a female of her age...I am the shortie female, at 5'7"...
My older boy, was almost 6 ft tall at his death, when he just turned 15...my younger boy is 6'5"...
When my younger son took a year long trip around the world, he was backpacking and hiking and hitchiking, and that left very little room for him to carry along a lot of excess clothing...when he did need to replace some clothing that either became damaged, or was stolen, he had a terrible time trying to buy new clothing in countries, whose men averaged well below even the USA standard of average height...
In a lot of the countries where he stayed for any length of time, the locals always gave him a name in their language, which roughly translated always meant the same thing, something like 'Huge American Giant'...the food vendors at various food stalls always greeted him with a big grin, as seeing how big he was, they knew he would order lots and lots of food, putting lots and lots of money into their pockets..
However, being extremely tall, while most of the time was a pain in the butt on that trip, it did serve him well, when he accidentally wound up in a little cafe in Turkey, most likely run by the Turkish 'mob'....found himself in a situation where a couple of goons tried to rush him to force him to pay an outlandish bill, but being as he was so big, and they so small, that they hesitated before rushing him, and he was luckily able to knock them down in one rush, and beat feet up the stairs, and into the safety of the streets...
Sometimes being extra big and tall is a pain, sometimes its an advantage...
You won't get any argument from me.
"I grilled steaks for the wife every week while she was pregnant. In the winter here north of Chicago, it's hard to get the grill going even when I used gasoline.
Up here in frigid Canuckville we grill in -15C weather using propane grills. I have tried it in colder weather but the cooking seems to take longer and it is more difficult to sear the meat.
Sorry to hear about your son.
Being tall is good when you need reach things off shelves, paint the house or scare aware uncertain hoodlums, but bad for nearly everything else.
Thanks for your sympathies concerning my son...
One other thing I have noticed...my son always has little bitty short gals, for girlfriends...(except his current galpal, who is taller)...I always thought when giving the good night kiss, he had to put his little girlfriends up on a box or a step...I actually bought him a little folding stool(9 inches high, which is really for me trying to get into his Jeep)...but I remarked that this little stool would also serve him well, to make that goodnight kiss to little short gals a little easier...
Now thats a great story...
I would lay money on the types of service with the highest casualty rates (eg junior infantry officer, combat pilot, special forces) being even more heavily overrepresented by atheists. I derive this belief from the educational and intelligence requirements for such posts, and the correlation between educational attainment and atheism.
I further add that I bet the majority of Freepers who post this "no atheists in foxholes", and "atheists won't fight for their country" bullshit have never themselves been within 1000 miles of any combat.
You think all Americans are stupid? We know what's going on up there. You cook over a caribou-chip fire, frying baby seal steaks in walrus blubber.
I'm not taking that bet....
In my experience, it's a mistake to ask Canadians this question. They're torn between a desire to tell you the truth and a desire to be polite. :-)
It doesn't matter what you know. What matters is the 'education' we give Americans. All we need to do is convince the masses we are a technically advanced society and they'll buy anything we have to sell. Put some horns on the baby seals and Americans will believe they're grade A Canadian beef. Add sulfur to our livestock produced methane and Americans will buy it as natural gas. A bit of coal and walrus blubber becomes high grade high priced oil. We cover all the angles and we're after your money.
Sometimes we just have to get things off our collective chest and do both.
Anyone who thinks Canadians are polite has not been to a hockey game.
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