Uncle Martin

Hello all, 'tis I,.... Uncle Martin. I've been away for awhile and sure am grateful to finally be able to get online again and resume a dialog with my old friends and I'm sure,.. make some new ones. There are so many changes since I last visited these forums, it will take me awhile to learn what's what, so please be patient. Also, my life is extremely busy, so I may not be able to devote the amount of time to this as I'd like. I must try to thank those responsible for sending me this wonderful computer as a Christmas gift. My feeble words will never do justice to the overwhelming feeling this act of kindness brought me, but I'll try. To be missed and wanted at a time when that is what I needed most brought tears of joy when I had been shedding the more common type for so long. When I was as low as a man can get, your love and friendship brought me up again, just in time too. I was very close to going over the edge. To have friends that I've never met in person care so much for my wellbeing has lifted my entire outlook and view of humanity as a whole. So,...THANK YOU! Sincerely!!! Please let me know how I can repay your kindness and I will do everything in my power to do so. I'm looking forward to some educational and sometimes heated debates with all of you. More to come as time allows.

Isn't it all really just based on religion? The idiot child has virtually decimated the line between church and state, his only true followers are christians? His backers are money brubbing oil tycoons? Does this not sum it all up concisely?

I agree completely with FT's above post. Color DOES NOT EXIST! It is all our perception. There is way too much info if you just do a google search for me to elaborate more. Now you have to say don't believe FT and Unc, I dare you.....

Those damned Indonesian ISP's, just can't count on them!

Is it not the subjective nature of a figurative interpretation that actually leads to fanaticism? How can anyone comprehend something that is open to any and all interpretations? This is not limited to Islam, but all organized religion.

He's a psychiatrist with his own talk show here in the U. S. Loud mouth with a texas drawl, can't say I care for him. My feelings on the subject are in line with FT's. Irish would already have figured that out though.

If you really want to profile me I'll be happy to offer any info you want. But I may scare people off. Just look at the stats from the short time I had my real picture posted for my avatar.

I edited one of stargazers posts for the proper quote tags, he had typed quote rather than just a q. Could be the problem.

Welcome to Hypography Stargazer,... you are going to fit right in. Your above comments are in line with my thoughts completely.

Some very good observations stargazer. I would like to point out that as far as I know most plants have a rudimentary nervous system, complete with neurons.

I rest my case!

Bo, can you provide evidence that supports your claim that nobody is following the baseball playoffs?

This was a very educational quiz. I learned much. Pinnekjott sounds good, you can have your smalahove however. Good job, thanks.

Return on investment is what it stands for Aki.

Blame, Thank you for the insight from a European perspective. Very enlightening to a yank such as myself. We are rather insulated afterall. I see your point and cannot refute anything of what you say. Good post!

Yes, there are true hermaphrodites, although they are very rare. Usually with a testi on one side and an ovary on the other. The external genitalia is not both vulva and penis or one or the other, usually a strange combination of both. Some have been just one small piece of ductwork from being able to fertilize themselves internally. Would make gym class a bit embarrassing no?

Well, today is the day. Please tell me someone else is in the running. Because I know I'll ace the Norway quiz coming next, that one will be easy.

The idiot child wants to impose "democracy" on people who not only don't want it, they are not capable of maintaining it. Freedom has a hefty price tag, it is hard work. Alot of people are not willing to pay the price of freedom and it is not our business to push it on them. What scares me most is that dubya is doing this in the name of god, and the people that are actually pulling his strings are letting him run with it because it helps them with their goal of more oil and more money. My cousin is in the "national" guard,... just did a year in Iraq, got to come home for two weeks then its off to fight for oil and money again,... until dubya decides he's got enough. HA! Like a republican could ever have enough. A forty year old father of three should not be risking being beheaded for Bush's desire to own everything. Since when is it justified riley for us to invade and "occupy" a sovereign nation that has never threatened us? Never done us any harm? Is it OK since god told the idiot child to do it? Get real! Sorry, I know this is getting off topic, should maybe pick it up in the Bush thread.

Alot of people "think" alot of nonsense. There is no evidence that aliens have ever visited Earth or that people from the future have traveled back in time to see us. Unless you have some evidence you wish to share with us that is.

There are different levels of hermaphroditism, but true hermaphrodites usually are 46XX. Some have a Y chromosome containing cell line eg; XX/XXY. They can have a complete or partial y chromosome in at least some of the cells. This is from a quick google search, I really know very little about this.

This is not my area of expertise, but assuming all of your statements could happen then,..yes. Some bacteria could be identicle to their billion year old ancestors.

That website is in my favorites list, I go there often. It is the best site for this topic I've found.

It is my opinion that subatomic particles be discussed in the physics category. This just makes sense.

Be afraid,... be very afraid.

Freethinker, Could you please tell me how a country composed of mostly shiite and suny muslims is in your opinion secular? And how is a totalitarian dictatorship a democracy in your eyes? These are very curious remarks that you make.