{"id":692,"date":"2009-11-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:38:44","slug":"mid-day-thoughts_18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/mid-day-thoughts_18\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Day Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Everyone is in a <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">panty<\/span>-bunch over the Sarah <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Palin<\/span> Newsweek cover photo. I think the caption is FAR more offending. Also, shes a looker!<\/li>\n<li>Someone made a good point about overweight people. Unlike alcoholics who are told to just stop drinking, an overweight person can&#8217;t just stop eating. Its like telling that alcoholic that they need to stop getting drunk but they still have to drink a little each day to stay alive.<\/li>\n<li>I am testing a <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">weird<\/span> &#8216;sealed&#8217; mouse (sealed in rubber to keep germs out). It&#8217;s very unusual.<\/li>\n<li>I am talking about a computer mouse, not some S&amp;M inclined rodent.<\/li>\n<li>How do you irritate a God denouncing scientist: ask them exactly how evolution works. Don&#8217;t take <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">generalities<\/span>, ask them to tell you exactly. It&#8217;s basically just a &#8216;magical&#8217; as religion <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">because<\/span> they can&#8217;t explain it. Watch their head spin off.<\/li>\n<li>How do you irritate a God denouncing scientist: ask them &#8216;if God is supposed to be the All Knowing Supreme Being, how is it that he is not smart enough to have created evolution?&#8217; Watch their head explode.<\/li>\n<li>If religion was man-made it was the most <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">ingenious<\/span> creation ever. It&#8217;s very basis can counter any argument <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">against<\/span> it. All powerful being = trump any argument.<\/li>\n<li>Can you remember the 1920&#8217;s? You can&#8217;t but you know what you have seen about the 20&#8217;s. When you try to think about that fact that you didn&#8217;t exist you mind starts eating itself.<\/li>\n<li>Sorry if I&#8217;m being esoteric this afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is in a panty-bunch over the Sarah Palin Newsweek cover photo. I think the caption is FAR more offending&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[468,469,470,471,472,473,474,475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}