Even when I wasn't a believer I didn't pay attention to VMAT2, Dr Hamer's god gene. I had to go to Wikipedia.
Given that there are several genes involved in skin colour (which is measurable objectively), I would be more sympathetic to a popular treatment if it had listed, minimum, three genes which caused this effect. Just one gene isn't enough. For just one gene, you're supposed to submit your work into a refereed journal, and to warn off any passing journalists.
Here's a witticism for your (well, Cleese's) audience: The Gene That Accounts for Less Than One Percent of the Variance Found in Scores on Psychological Questionnaires Designed to Measure a Factor Called Self-Transcendence, Which Can Signify Everything from Belonging to the Green Party to Believing in ESP, According to One Unpublished, Unreplicated Study. [Zimmer]
Wow, what a great site. I just went through and read/looked at everything posted. Many thanks for sharing these things. I was looking up your church to see if I could get a protestant friend to visit -- he lives close. I'll be checking back weekly! J in Louisiana
Tomorrow will be my first mass at your church since I am new to the area. Nevertheless, and reading thru the comments previously posted on the blog, I do firmly believe in the separation of state and church, BUT, not expressing our discomfort or objective point of views on different government issues that affect our community as a whole, will also go against our freedom of expression right, clearly stated in our constitution.
We should be more focussed in addressing our local issues, and wheter we agree or disagree with our new President, it is time to only ask our Lord to give him the knowledge, and the direction to lead us all.
Richard Wilbur, the second person named US Poet Laureate, wrote a poem entitled "A Hole In The Floor." In it he describes how a carpenter has left a hole in the floor through which the author looks. He becomes aware of the sources that feed the room as he experiences it.
Naive reality forgets the sources that create the experience we have of life. It is only when we look beneath the surface of superficial reality that we can really "see" life. The room is literaly kept in existence by being fed from a multiple of sources that are not apparent. Once you awaken to this, the room is no longer so taken for granted.
"For God's sake, what am I after?
...the buried stangeness which nourishes the known: that spring from which the floor lamp drinks now a wilder bloom, inflaming the damask love-seat and the whole dangerous room."
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Brilliant!
Even when I wasn't a believer I didn't pay attention to VMAT2, Dr Hamer's god gene. I had to go to Wikipedia.
Given that there are several genes involved in skin colour (which is measurable objectively), I would be more sympathetic to a popular treatment if it had listed, minimum, three genes which caused this effect. Just one gene isn't enough. For just one gene, you're supposed to submit your work into a refereed journal, and to warn off any passing journalists.
Here's a witticism for your (well, Cleese's) audience: The Gene That Accounts for Less Than One Percent of the Variance Found in Scores on Psychological Questionnaires Designed to Measure a Factor Called Self-Transcendence, Which Can Signify Everything from Belonging to the Green Party to Believing in ESP, According to One Unpublished, Unreplicated Study. [Zimmer]
Thankyou for the laughs! That was cute. I think it was a loving punch. :-)
Wow, what a great site. I just went through and read/looked at everything posted. Many thanks for sharing these things. I was looking up your church to see if I could get a protestant friend to visit -- he lives close. I'll be checking back weekly!
J in Louisiana
Tomorrow will be my first mass at your church since I am new to the area. Nevertheless, and reading thru the comments previously posted on the blog, I do firmly believe in the separation of state and church, BUT, not expressing our discomfort or objective point of views on different government issues that affect our community as a whole, will also go against our freedom of expression right, clearly stated in our constitution.
We should be more focussed in addressing our local issues, and wheter we agree or disagree with our new President, it is time to only ask our Lord to give him the knowledge, and the direction to lead us all.
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