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Well, if I saw this thing walking across my ceiling - instead of safely dead and encased in glass - I'd drop dead myself. Funny thing about the nearly universal terror of spiders - arachnephobia. This particular critter is not particularly dangerous to humans. Thought it is venemous (as all...

Better make it a big frying pan for this baby. Forget about your shoe, Miss Shelf.

Better make it a big frying pan for this baby. Forget about your shoe, Miss Shelf. http://www.marcfriedlander.com/images/PHOTOS/spider01Ww.jpg

Make sure you take them off first (the shoes).

Not to mention orcs.

just a guess how they are different - a croque monsieur has an epididymus and a croque madame doesn't?

On the whole, I would say religion has not been kind to scientists. Galileo and Darwin are but two names that spring to mind, but the total list would be staggering.

No biggie - thanks for understanding!

Correcto-mundo! Your question, Doc.

Crystal- I thought this was a thread in which the person that answered the last question correctly was the one to pose a new question, and then that question was addressed by the others.

I thought I remembered that. Kind of ironic, isn't it? I wonder if Orville was the first one ever to use an air-sickness bag. OK - here is my question: Who proposed the concepts of "deep structure" and "surface structure" of language?

I would guess google should not be allowed. As far as Monkeycatcher's question, could it be Orville Wright himself?

That's why the "scientific method" is far more trustworthy than anecdotal evidence, in separating beliefs from truths. It is not infallible - but it is a whole lot better than anything else. It seems that all the time, scientists are saying things like - while we used to think THAT, we now...

Hugin- Seeing something is not proof of it, and not seeing something does not refute it. People can see things that turn out to be NOT what they thought they saw. NOT seeing something is very week evidence that it does not exist. In these ways I disagree with your solipsistic friend. Anyone...

Gem- The title is: I Died For Beauty—But Was Scarce At least, that is what a Google search reveals. Doesn't seem as much like a title as just the first line of the poem. I love the Jewel poem - thank you.

I agree, although I like the Smith poem too. But Shelley says more with less. I read that Smith and Shelley were friends and wrote their respective Ozymandias poems as entries in a contest. Shelley won (big surprise). Here is another of my super-favoritos, by Emily Dickinson: I died...

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That's how I think. It's not too convincing. I'm just one of those folks that demand PROOF before I believe stuff. This skepticism could well deprive me of many comforting illusions - belief in a "higher power" being one of them. I also realize that I might be discounting stuff that might be...

You know, if you shuffle a deck of cards and then deal them out, you may see a straight, or three of a kind show up in succession, and there is even a finite probability of a royal flush coming up. Why do I mention this? To show that things happen all the time that could appear to have some...

Here is my take on ESP, Phychic Phenomena, religious miracles, telepathy, communication with the spirit world, or exta-normal events of ANY kind: it's all bunk. Let's face some facts - we humans are pretty curious. Scientists LOVE to investigate stuff. They have discovered REAL invisible...