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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we 'Wizards'? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2012, 2:49 pm
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| From Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1939): Wiz'ard (wis'erd) n. [ME, wysard, fr. wys, wis, wise + ard.] 1. Obs A sage . 2. A sorcerer. 3. Colloq A very clever or skillful person . -- adj. 1. Possessed of magical influence. 2. Enchanting. -- wiz'ard-ly, adj. I was looking at my Tarbell Course in Ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we 'Wizards'? |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 11:22 pm
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| No, I've never been called a wizard. In your case, do you think they just meant highly intelligent? That was the statement by my friend to them ; he has known me since the early 1970's, and spontaneously came up with an allegorical description. He knows I'm highly intelligent, they had never met me... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we 'Wizards'? |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 3:53 pm
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| In the fall of 2007, I visited an international gathering of my "extended-family" group in Marseilles, France. Sometime after that event, an American friend reported being asked by some of the group (who had never met me before, thus did not know me) "What's with that guy, anyway?". My friend respon... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Folk Music anyone? |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2010, 4:20 am
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| I think Alice's Restaurants was a very funny story The movie weirded me out. It's a pretty weird story :lol: It was a true story. If you could have "been there" and seen it "back in the day," you wouldn't have found it funny, but poignant. It was a weird era, produced by many factors, including the... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Song "Fare Thee Well, Contradiction" |
| johnpipe108 |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2010, 3:36 am
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| Fare Thee Well Contradiction by the late Philip Wesley Dayton, of JohnPhilBert fame. As inspired by John, Phil and Bert Sung to the tune of "Fare Thee Well, Eniskillen" (March Tempo) [solo voice on the verses, all voices on the chorus, was how we performed it back in the day] Fare the well, Eniskill... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Global Climate Change -- Then and Now |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010, 3:12 pm
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| Perhaps you young whipper-snappers can enlighten me, since I grew up in a Southern, Liberal-Democratic Racist Left family (I was born while Hitler and Stalin were still alive and kicking; looks like some of you were too). Up until WWII, Hitler was considered by the American Liberal Progressive left ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God has always existed and created the world. |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 10:20 pm
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| Just what did he do before he created the world? "He" was in dreamless sleep; when he "woke up", he "dreamed" the world. Metaphorically speaking, that is, since "we are him and he is us." He always needs a rest after each round of the creation. Back a few decades, Mr Natural picked up his beach mat... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Global Climate Change -- Then and Now |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 8:57 pm
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| My reference to the first French revolutionaries as the "first communists" has nothing to do with conventional, historic labels; it's descriptive of what went on during the terror, which parallels and sets the example for the behavior of all the later despots. Think of it as metaphor. Hitler was by ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Global Climate Change -- Then and Now |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 7:11 am
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| In the thirteenth century, there was a major global climate change, known as the little ice age. Prior to that century, Greenland was actually green, not ice-covered as it became, and England was a temperate, grape-growing, wine-drinking country. All that changed, with the coldest weather anyone had... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: On Immortality |
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Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 9:06 pm
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| If you haven't read the Tripartite Tractate I'd highly recommend it. Definitely something you'd appreciate. Thanks very much! That is very interesting, especially since it comes from early Christian era, and non-Roman. The Father definition certainly seems to illustrate the influence claimed for th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: On Immortality |
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Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 5:41 pm
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| "In the beginning there was Existence, One only, without a second. Some say that in the beginning there was non-existence only, and that out of that the universe was born. But how could such a thing be? How could existence be born of non-existence? No, my son, in the beginning there was existence al... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Religion-What's the Point? |
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Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 3:18 am
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| "Blasphemy of the so called churches, temples, and mosques; all they seek is ignorance, they maintain ignorance in the name of Jesus Christ, Bhudda, Shankara-Charya, Ram Krishna." -- late yogi Chiranjiva, ex atheist-communist, turned God lover. I have to agree with the sig of one member, which inclu... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Living alone again after many years with others |
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Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 12:37 am
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| I will be 66 next month, and last December I had to move out from my room-mates after living with them for 5 years. They were my step-daughter, her husband and children, and we had moved from one town to another closer to where they worked, and it was a smaller house. They are having another child, ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: C. S. Forester's "The Gun" -- 1:17 scale model |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2010, 8:54 pm
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| Nice. I seem to remember seeing a film of that, or at least, some film set in that period which involved dragging an inordinately large cannon around. :?: That would be The Pride And The Passion , which was the basis of my previous model project post, A Model Passion Cannon , TPATP was loosely adap... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2010, 1:44 am
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| I wanted to re-read Machiavelli's The Prince (hadn't read it since Freshman College year in the sixties), and chose from the library catalog a Harvard Classics, The Five Foot Shelf of Books, vol. 36 , which in addition to Machiavelli contains: The Life of Sir Thomas More , by William Roper More's Ut... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: fulcrums in Roman architecture? |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2010, 1:06 am
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| The top central stone in a Roman arch is the keystone; cut like a triangle, with the point cut off, narrow end down. The arches were first built over a wooden form; the keystone was inserted to lock the arch, so to speak, and after it's in place the form can be removed. Each structural stone in the ... |
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