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I'm pretty sure his frustration is over the fact that this thread called for specific help regarding Christian concepts, and your scriptural dick-joke revisions aren't in the spirit of that request. I don't know, not being an adherent I try to respect what others hold sacred without embracing it. I try not to poop on the parade when it's not my parade. To each their own. As does Peter, you choose to focus on my single jest while ignoring my multiple factual and reason-based points. Given that Lightmeow unequivocally stated in the opening post, "I said a few remarks about how stupid that was, then he exiled me from the church. Thus my hate of religion.", I think I'm well within the intended topic. So continuing on the OP, Christianity -as most religions- Lightmeow is intolerant in both the precepts and the actions of proponents. Do as I say and not as I do or I will curse you with bear mauling or whatever torture and death as suits the mood. Don't ask for a reason because none is needed beyond asserting it is some god or gods will(s). If that is not worthy of mockery and scorn, nothing is.

I am not sure this is the right thinking. Humans take more risks than animals, which means to me that the risk taking nature is profitable to intelligence, not to instinct. "If we risk nothing we get nothing" only applies to humans. To me, an intuition is only a way for our mind to force us into action, because we are intelligent and we know that a risk is risky, but what we do not know is that it is more profitable to risk than not to risk, providing that the risk is not too dangerous. Scientists know that their intuitions might not work, but if a little voice tells them that they will, then they might try them, otherwise, we would not have all those discoveries and inventions that facilitate our lives. Clearly you did not read the article beyond what I quoted of it. The article goes in depth to support the brief passage I quoted in keeping with copyright obligations. The obligation to read the full article before passing judgment is on you and the other dear tender readers.

I find the idea of taking a chance/risk interesting in relation to intuition. It seems to me that intuition is a development of experience in risk taking, whether one is bold or not-so-bold. A little searching found this article: >> The Evolution of Risk-Taking

Invasive species of the inedible, wild, and ugly kind are having a field day throughout the world. By all indications their future is bright.

Herein lies a major problem with religions. If communication over a couple days in a common language is too difficult to comprehend, how much worse must it be over millennia and in different languages? Your throwing the effort at discussion to the waste bin is not so different from the opening post here wherin the poster told of the minister throwing him out of church for asking about clothing in heaven.

Ooooopsss! I also got the name slightly wrong; it is computational knowledge engine. You can also enter equations and words or phrases*. If you sign up with a free membership as we do here, you get more features such as copyable text formats and longer listings. * Edit: The knowledge engine is not limited to math or science. Try entering 'Moses' for example.

'Any' number sequence is an unreasonable expectation, but yes there are programs that allow you to enter a sequence and then the program evaluates it. See >> Wolfram Alpha Computational Engine Try entering 1,3,6,10...

Although I was reminded fondly of Dune, I find it chagrining to see so much effort invested in imagining yet another way to kill people.

Roger roger, copy copy. Roger that. We can hope md2 will return & clarify. As to 'point of view' I was trying to be ever-so-careful when I specified [Euclidean 3-space] so as to allow the possibility that some manner of manifold took on different representations. ajb? You out there?

It was less confusing before he edited in the last 2 paragraphs. The gist of it was that he took umbrage to some of my comments.

The dead trees can be converted to bio-char via pyrolysis. The bio-char is then disturbed in/on the soil and the carbon will remain bound for centuries.

It is always my pleasure to append a correct addition to one of your preferred phrasings. Here is md2's AP plotted on Ulam's spiral. From this we can tell at a glance that the AP contains no Perfect Squares. {2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 182, 186, 190, 194, 198, 202, 206, 210, 214, 218, 222, 226, 230, 234, 238, 242, 246, 250, 254, 258, 262, 266, 270, 274, 278, 282, 286, 290, 294, 298, 302, 306, 310, 314, 318, 322, 326, 330, 334, 338, 342, 346, 350, 354, 358, 362, 366, 370, 374, 378, 382, 386, 390, 394, 398, 402, 406, 410, 414, 418, 422, 426, 430, 434, 438, 442, 446, 450, 454, 458, 462, 466, 470, 474, 478, 482, 486, 490, 494, 498, 502, 506, 510, 514, 518, 522, 526, 530, 534, 538, 542, 546, 550, ...}

Hard to tell what md2 means, or intends for that matter. While he/she wrote 'diameter', the equation given is for the circumference of a circle and in the case of a sphere the equation is the measure of a great circle. (The diameter of a sphere is of course 2r) Nonetheless, from all [Euclidian 3-space] perspectives a circumference is a circumference, a diameter is a diameter and a great circle is a great circle. All in all I intended the brevity of my response to match the brevity of the question.

I immediately thought of the hunter-seekers in Herbert's Dune. Searching that term I found an article from several years ago relating hunter-seekers to your drones and at 1/8 the price. source

I suggest buying high school textbooks. Find them in high school book stores or from students who no longer need them. Used books are usually less expensive.

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Mmmmm...what comment(s) are those exactly? My citation about the Catholic vs Protestant Bibles? Or perhaps my citation from 2 Kings concerning Elisha getting pissed about being called "baldy" and cursing 42 boys with bear mauling? As to my rewriting from 2 Kings, well obviously I meant it as a joke and so only to be seriously taken as jocularity. Any reasonable person can figure that one out. It would be illogical to conclude that just because I don't believe everything in holy books that I don't find anything of value in them. source

Such small injuries do not routinely require a doctor. Wash and cover the wound. If it doesn't heal, then consider a doctor. (Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, but I was once a Boy Scout.) . How would you know unless you received a tetanus shot and had a reaction to it? I suspect that even if you did have a reaction to a tetanus shot that you are still protected. But there is no reason to assume your staple wound exposed you to tetanus, so I wouldn't worry until or unless you start to look like this: source

Field is a higher order taxonomy. Branches occur within fields. Botany is a branch of the field of biology.

an = 2(2n-1) or 4n-2 n={1,2,3...}

I think there's a vast difference between crossing an ocean and being stuck on a desolate alien landscape with air one can't breathe or even exist in without a spacesuit. Not to mention the nearest human habitation being an unreachable distance away. I understand human frustrations occur on the International Space Station, so what would happen on Mars perhaps one can only contemplate - all the ingredients for madness if you ask me. Yes, I got your take on madness from your post that I was replying to. Repeating it adds nothing. As Ophiolite points out, you don't have to go if you don't want to. Moreover, madness knows no restriction on circumstance as evidenced by folks who go mad where breathing is free and human habitation is a whisper away. Exploration and adventure are as exploration and adventure do. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Everything? Really? Some person a couple thousand years ago says God told them what to do and it's logical and reasonable to accept that as fact? Sorry; what is a personal choice? Such as the example I just gave about disembodied voices? Huh?

And a lot of a's in your name, butt welcome any waaaaay.

They don't have to and they in fact don't. But of course logic and reason have nothing to do with religious belief. A curse of bears on you for questioning dogma! Catholic vs. Protestant Bibles To be sure, the topic of dress in Heaven is also uncovered in Kings.

You're just damn lucky it wasn't that stupid baldy Elija Elisha you were talking to. (Edit. My bad; the stupid baldy Elisha.) 2 Kings 2 ...23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. Get out of here, baldy! they said. Get out of here, baldy! 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. ...