romansh

Just finished reading ... Survival of the Sickest
It's a popularist book on genetics and the like.
It's position when the fittest survive it is actually a compromise depending on the environmental pressures. For me it was another strong link in the chain of evidence.

Happily real tough today ... it's the one year anniversary of our sixteen year old son's death. ... I'm not sure going through life happily is quite the way. Living life for all it's worth, being in the now, embracing the happiness and the sorrow.

A work in progress ... and if I ever get there?

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debdodd

Thoughts of love and condolences to you and Mrs Juris today ... much love buddy. much love ....

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romansh

Thanks Deb

Mrs J and I are doing OK ... ups and downs
but
No gods to rail against
No doctors to blame
No guilt (well not much)

Just is

Then there is Buzz worrying whether his kid believes in god?

This I find sad.

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xxkayxx

Alot of things can be viewed as sad romansh..I just hope buzz and his son work it out between them...I know my own dad was worried for me that i didn't believe in God, and i would regularly skip seeing him just to not go to church, something I highly regret today..you shouldn't let such small things like religion come between relationships I've realized.

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romansh

I agree with you whole heartedly.
I just find it sad that Buzz's son will have to decide whether to play the role of an adult while Buzz is being the child of Christ

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debdodd

Oh bravo Juris, bravo!!!! Now that is one I need to remember! Did you come up with that on your own? absolutely marvelous! That is the most profound thing I have seen posted on forum!!! Awesome

I think a tee shirt, bumper sticker, etc. with something similar would sell! Patent that saying!

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"Ubi dubium ibi libertas."

"We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."

pseudonous

I agree with Deb this is a very eloquent statement.

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duck

I'm with Deb. That statement struck me very eloquently. What an incredible statement.

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AB517

WOW.

Tough for me to think he was just a stat. I can feel the sadness and loss in my mind and body, I am sorry.

Evolution must be driven by stresses, it can work no other way. Chemistry will not change just because we are believers or not.

romansh

Thanks AB

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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ........... Douglas Adams