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moonraven
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Twisting in the Wind
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Are you throwing kisses at the forum or (LOL) something, MR?
Thought about your comment re Barry (Goldwater). I'm just not sure he'd be slightly left of center. He was such a commie-baiting, General LeMay-embracing zealot....actually if he had lived and were alive today, he might just curl up and die because now that the Cold War is over there's nothing for him to live for. It's just hard to peg what kind of political leanings some of the older Reps/Dems would have because the landscape has changed so much. The Religious Right plays a role in Rep politics it never did before, for ex.
Oh, MR, you made an interesting comment either on this thread or elsewhere that you started out in Physics but once you thought about working in Los Alamos being your outcome (or something like that---sorry if I'm misquoting you)you switched to Poetry and Lit. Was just curious about that comment--were you going to specialize in nuclear physics?Because Physics is a broad field. My hubby started out as a Physicist, too. Here's a vignette that might interest you---when he was doing post grad work in Pharmacology, he discovered a new drug to help epileptics that also happened to be the intermediary for a new explosive that gave more bang for the buck. This was during Vietnam. The D o D paid a little visit to his lab and asked for the recipe. He had already taken out a patent on it. Hubby refused to give it. The next day was his day off. When he came back a day later, everything had been taken: notes, glassware, everything. Hubby is a peaceful man. It still pisses him off to this day what the govt did. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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No kisses. I was deleting a post as someting backfired here in the Internet cafe and it posted twice....
I am aware that Physics--even in the time of Aristotle--covers/ed a lot of ground. I was specifically slanted toward nuclear physics.
It's ironic that more than 20 years after that decision I moved to Santa Fe, NM--and lived in the "shadow" of Los Alamos for 10 years!
It's also funny how things come back around. For the past couple of years I have been doing a little theoretical work in the aspect of Physics that was "supposedly" my natural aptitude--Astrophysics. |
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Don Alan
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I haven't read all the posts but read the first and last posting and I think it's a question of freedom. If you choose to practice a religion that is your free choice and if you believe it is something good it is natural that you want your children to receive an education according to those values. I don't think to be part of a religious faith is to be 'shackled'. After all, Christians believe that Jesus is someone who unshackles us from sin and brings the light of truth into our lives.
However, there are many proud people in the world who rant against religious faith because they only believe their ideas are relevant and think they are god and these are the most intolerant people who want to impose their ideas on everyone and can't stand that someone doesn't think like them. |
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Don Alan wrote: |
I haven't read all the posts but read the first and last posting and I think it's a question of freedom. If you choose to practice a religion that is your free choice and if you believe it is something good it is natural that you want your children to receive an education according to those values. I don't think to be part of a religious faith is to be 'shackled'. After all, Christians believe that Jesus is someone who unshackles us from sin and brings the light of truth into our lives.
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Hi Don Alan,
This thread I think has mutated since its inception. I'm not sure who said "shackled" or in what context it was said. I just kind of jumped in here a couple pp ago and the conversation shifted to more "political." |
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| moonraven wrote: |
It's ironic that more than 20 years after that decision I moved to Santa Fe, NM--and lived in the "shadow" of Los Alamos for 10 years!
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Yes...I was going to...ummm...say..... 
Thank goodness you were not throwing us kisses.  |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Twister,
This was a whirlwind tour of Central America for the haughty Salvadorans who probably still believe that most of Central America still belongs to them anyway! 
It's a good thing nobody knows who I am or I could get shot!!
Actually - I did see A LOT of territory throughout Honduras, Nicaragua and then Costa Rica. It's predominantly a laid back lifestyle - some folks appear to be so dirt poor...yet still happy!!!...How can that be when they could be sitting down watching a vidio of Donald Trump kicking enterprising young capitalists out of his office for not being greedy enough to 'make it' by his standards?
Certainly this trip was geared toward discovery and exploration for some of the more intelectually astute among us - but, of course, it takes all types. One of the most interesting 'finds' for me was in the National Museum of Costa Rica - there were HUGE stone spheres...almost perfectly round - that were made centuries ago...still another unsolved mystery...
One comment on a 'Christian' education being 'well-rounded' - It's my gut feeling that, if a person is capable of thinking and desires an education, well then they can think in just about ANY setting...if they put their mind to it!
"God is Love"
Peace and prosperity in the New Year!!  |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: orale |
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La pura vida como dicen alli en Costa Rica, Pablito Perdido.
Ponte las pilas  |
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Twister,
This was a whirlwind tour of Central America for the haughty Salvadorans who probably still believe that most of Central America still belongs to them anyway!
It's a good thing nobody knows who I am or I could get shot!!
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Yes, how silly of them to keep thinking that. 
Well, I'm glad you got to see a bit of the region. Did you get to Tegus? I think the bus ride into Teguc whipping around those mountains and the pine trees is very beautiful. Did you get to the Anthropology Museum in Guat City? Much better than Mex City's--because it's smaller--you can actually see things instead of just walking and walking and feeling overwhelmed.
Happy New Year to you too, Paulie. |
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Paulie2003
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Thanks for the New Year blessing...
Guy, that new computer must have arrived by now...I didn't realize that it had an 'instant Spanish word and phrase finder for the up-and- coming psuedo-intellectual who actually thinks what he has to say is important' mode on it! Will surprises never cease???
...I thought you were sitting it out for awhile... |
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Paulie2003 wrote: |
Guy, that new computer must have arrived by now...I didn't realize that it had an 'instant Spanish word and phrase finder for the up-and- coming psuedo-intellectual who actually thinks what he has to say is important' mode on it! |
Cheap shots will not get you anywhere in your proseletyzing, or however you spell it, Paulie. I'm sure Guy's words are his own, dredged up from his considerable knowledge of Castillian. |
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Y tu, Paulie,
Cuanto espanol hablas vos? |
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Paulie2003
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Pocito - actually, I kinda enjoy not knowing the language to well...that way, when those people with the angry expressions keep yelling in my face...I can just sit there and smile!
"There's more to a book than it's cover..."
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Cheap shots always require a return volley Polley
however...
since you fire them so off the mark, I'll just sit back and watch you flounder, fishy
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Twisting in the Wind
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean ""poquito?" You said the word with a soft "c" sound. Tsk. Tsk. In time it will come. Are you enrolled in Spanish classes? |
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