On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:01:34 -0400, Gary Woods
wrote:

Hussein M. wrote:

Records seem to be being broken with monotonous regularity these
days. Coldest since, hottest since etc.

Sign o' the times.

Next you're going to be telling me that those Jehovah's Witnesses that
periodically show up at my door are right; that these are the End Times.

No! (Wondering what made Gary's discourse take a turn into hyperbole
and derision).

I'm one of those Americans, and I've been doing precious little whining.
I've got much bigger things worth whining about, and I'm finally accepting
even that.

Personal stuff?

Not that I'm thrilled with the mixed bag this spring, but
because I accept that nature is like that.

Yep. Nature. Weird, wonderful and full of surprises - amongst which
producing a species which can chuck so much of a certain gas into the
atmosphere that it affects all living creatures in a manner wherein it
is hard to find any benefit save for the opportunists.
Hey! Evolution needs a kick up the arse!

It gives me a certain subversive glee that we can't do anything
about the weather, and can't even predict it at all well.

Predicting weather is small scale stuff. Let's get into climate
change, space travel and moon dwellings.

As some sci-fi story put it:

"All the same, Orion shall rise."

Perhaps even ol' Phoenix will make his entrance stage left ...

I receive neither inspiration nor entertainment from sci-fi. Perhaps a
degree of marvelling at the extent to which people believe what they
want to believe - which is usually what the immediate crowd believes.

Continental philosophy is more my line. Oops. Scrub that statement or
leave it? Nah. Why not leave it.


And the garlic is peeping through the rapidly melting snow.

Life is good.

For you ..... and shitty beyond your imagination for some.

Oh Dear. With the likelihood that it will attract a cart load of
off-topic shit going round and round in pointless circles I am now
ignoring this thread.

I would never ignore _you_ Gary. You are much too interesting and
knowledgeable concerning the subject matter of this newsgroup.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our
philosophy."

The Bard
(probably misremembered and certainly with the personal pronoun
diplomatically changed -)

A word increasingly bandied around these days is " hubris".

hubris noun
[u] (literary) the fact of sb being too proud.
In literature, a character with this pride ignores warnings and laws
and this usually results in their downfall and death.

Hussein

Grow a little garden

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