General Chat

yes the BOOK, 'The Grand Design' I’m about half way through it now, worth a read, it gets you thinking in ways you never thought of.
it goes back through history and tells/shows us how thing in the past which we thought was true turn out to be not quite what we thought and even what he is telling us today, may or will change in the future.

sounds a bit like family history.........J

RR, you're so mean. I can't watch BBC stuff (or whatever channel 4 might be). I can hope we get it on a local network here soon, though.


RB, you may give me incentive. Are you finding the book readable and comprehensible?? I read those first 10 pages of the first one four times ...


Patricia: "Was there a Creator? probably not, we just 'ARE'.."

And so sez all of me. ;)

I did learn "love one another" in Sunday School (as many people in many religions have also been taught), but I think many of us have also figured it out on our own.


Janet -- you mean you haven't traced your ancestors back to the Big Bang yet??

Sorry Janey, but hopefully you may pick it up at sometime ( Channel 4 is ITV not BBC )

oops. Still going strong I see. Better get that kettle back on - Janey must be parched. :))

Hm, given a choice between tea and religion ... I might take religion. ;)

Rose, that's what I like to believe in - a greater being that created and let things run their course- I think it's a nice idea:)

So you've heard about my tea making abilities then Janey? Okay.....coffee it is as I certainly wouldn't want to foist religion onto you in case you started to enjoy it;)

JC, are you talking about 'A Brief History of Time' when you mention his first book, it was hard to get a grip with but he issued a second version which was more easy to read (it was still hard going) lol.
This book, I have to stop a few times and go back for a re read but its not to bad, always they try to explain with a every day model, things like the atom, came about couple thousand years ago, some Greek guy dropped a vase which smashed into bits, so he thought, I wonder how small I can keep breaking a piece, then came the idea that there must be a point I can't break it any more that was called a atom meaning unbreakable, that’s until 1900s Albert Einstein came along. Just now on the part hes explaining the 4th dimention, its getting a bit to much but interesting.

Got to go BBL.

Okay, because I am feeling mischievious.......

I am just watching the live broadcast of the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury kneeling side by side at the altar of St. Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. Very uplifting it is too.......:)

Yup, A Brief History of Time.

I was vaguely seeing a psychologist at the time, to try to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. He recommended some reading for me. My dorky BFF, a fan of all things pop psychology, said "Men are from Mars Women are from Venus??" or whatever it is, and mentioned some other such bilge.

No, I said. A Brief History of Time.

And the next week I was strolling through one of the Chinatowns in Toronto, and there in a garbage bin on the street, on top of a pile of fish parts and newspaper, was a brand new hardcover copy of A Brief History of Time. I think someone must have been walking down the street trying to read it, and said Enough! and tossed it. Or just abandoned it on the table when they finished their Peking duck, and out it went.

So I took it as a sign. I was meant to read it -- psychologists and Chinatowns conspiring to bring it to my hands.

Of course, I don't pay attention to signs from the heavens ... ;)

It's nice to see religious people getting along, Cynthia. ;) Not that it's any more than one should expect of them ...

ROFL at that Janey :))

But what if it becomes a habit ......???

You mean ... that thing nuns used to wear? Surely that's the last thing on their minds!

They still wear 'em - in varying colours and styles, Janey.

I am quite sure that the first thing on their minds was managing to breathe through the incense to be honest!

what about poor old Galileo, he was put under house arrest for the rest of his life for suggesting that the Sun was the centre of the universe and Earth orbited around it, but the pope did apologise in 1992.

And that is the *real* reason I am so anti-religion, of course, Cynthia.

When my mum and I visited England we found ourselves staying right by a church that (it turned out) was where my dad's parents had married. Next morning we decided to stop in and attend a service on the way to visit my dad's cousin up the road. We would have been stuck there for the whole thing, had I not (quite genuinely) been overcome by a fit of allergy from all the censor-swinging up and down the aisles. We did drop our pecuniary offering in the plate passed before leaving, though!


RB -- that makes Galileo the one who gets to say "I told you so!"

Of course it's the *real* reason Janey......lol Sniff, blow, cough, splutter. Nothing to do with the parable of the Talents then?

Good of you not to pass the plate though :)


Oh yes....you like links and tests etc. try the quotient test on the thread I put up earlier.

Gosh, 6 pages and we've only mentioned the Christian God!
What about Allah (PBWH) and the Hindu God - don't be confused by the many minor gods - they're like Christian Saints.
Buddah - was he God or a representative of God?
Which God was Stephen Hawking talking about? Was it all of them ?
Why has everyone presumed it was Jesus's alleged father?