chuck kottke

That's an interesting way of seeing it, and yes, I think everything runs in cycles too. Part of that may be due to a bad historical memory, part due to the overconfidence effect. Feedback loops - Corruption, then reform - makes sense. The concept from the Uni was the forward spiral view - everything seems to be going in circles, but when viewed from the side, we are slowly making forward progress. Perhaps there are watershed moments, when several positive events lasting progress..

Sounds like a fun investment! Here, it's hunting season - good reason to duck! Nothing much too new - busy wandering the net basically.

:stunned:Boston? Why Bean town?? Where do I dream of living? I'm comfortable anywhere - Midwesterners aren't all that fussy, actually. Maybe Belize in winter..

?? Last thing - probably the lingering essence of apple juice, from some defrosted frozen apple slices..

659 The Bing Machine.

:laugh3: I'm just trying to imagine 81 degrees.. it's blowing my mind just thinking it could even be that warm! Yes, maybe the Northeast would be more to your liking? Vermont, the independent state then??

Has a maple leaf tattoo. :P

But this will solve the problem of native population decline in England!:rolleyes: "I'm Henry the eighth I am, Henry the eighth I am I am..":P

Whats new in Rick's world?

It was dark today - overcast, light fog, short day-lengths.. reasonably warm though for being in the sub-arctic. How's the weather in Sunny Florida, Nick?

Yes, isn't it funny - the uncanny resemblance, and the accent and all.:laugh3: Random event - amazing what one finds by accident. (or, perhaps it is the infinite improbability drive?) (who's David Carradine?)

I have discovered whom I believe could be Chris Martin's long lost Uncle! Take a look!![ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKzXzj9S0UU&feature=related]YouTube - The Muppet Show - Zen Skiing[/ame]

Good thinking. ;) The more ambient, the better!

MEW - that's what the cat always says to me too!;) Alright then - I will do just that.;)

Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Hungary..

Duke of Windsor

That's hardly a Danish band, Brad!:glasses2::laugh3:

Oh, so that's what APPARATJIK is! AHA! Tnks.. The name sounds vaguely like some old soviet secret police organization..?? The State Apparatchick..

I was replaying, in my mind, the video for a concert - Matchbox 20, Turn Around.

Mew thread??:laugh3: Oh, I get it - Guy Berryman is with Mew now??;)

well, Nancyk58, I gave a listen to Medina, Alphabeat, Nephew, and Infernal. I think I liked Infernal the best of all of them.. Which Danish is your favorite?;)

And why is that?

Truly a thought provoking quote - and it shows some of the dualisms in our world - I think about this too - one the one side, the gated communities in the hills, and on the other, complete and utter poverty. One steps over the other - it's not how I want to see the world in the future! I will give it a listen. And yes, perhaps we will - things seem to happen in phases, and the era we are in shows both great promise and great folly.. I think of the Beatles song , wherein George Harrison sings , "But surely we must be learning.. while my guitar gently weeps.."

BUMP. (Coldplay are into sustainable forests, fair trade, and related areas of concern, so this dovetails nicely with their general world view.) Please give it your consideration.

Ricardo, I think it has to do with how Christianity spread, and how as it spread, it began to have more authors. If there was an original text, it's been lost - so either it was passed on by oral tradition, or the text simply vanished in time. Then, once the accepted Gospels were penned, they were done so in Hebrew, then Aramaic, then Greek, then on to the next language and so forth. Nothing translates perfectly, so there was room for both deciding how to portray a given passage, or simply translation errors occurred. After Christianity became the main religion of the Roman world, the church hierarchy began a process of trying to bring greater unity to the interpretations in the Gospels, as well as limit the number of Gospels to only the 4 most common ones. Hence, the beginning of setting standards as to what is to be believed from each passage, how it is to be interpreted, what gets included, etc. by church authorities - and since the Catholic church was for the most part the original church, the structures thus created to interpret and set standards exist to this day. I might have gotten that a bit muddled, but generally I think that's why. As for interpretation, I think the best would be to either learn ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and go back to the original documents (a daunting task), or listen to some biblical scholars, and get their opinions on interpreting biblical passages. Some things vary, and it might we worth the time to do so.