WordWolf

I don't think Booster KNOWS that. It was a plot-point that time travelers who know your origin can try to go back and erase you. I liked the "Welcome Back Kotter" rerun on TV. I personally would have liked to have seen a woman spinning in place with a light-flash obscuring her instead! DC has the rights to that one, I think... While we watched, I accompanied the Jax/Stein disagreement with "I ain't getting on no plane, Hannibal!" when he collapsed. Jax didn't see it coming, but we did. I saw it by the time the glasses were raised- Mrs Wolf expected it sooner. Mrs Wolf thinks the Dr Who references are too transparent, but then, she's a Whovian. Ok, Ray doesn't always walk around with the armor, but can't he walk around carrying SOME gadget in case of trouble? (BTW, other than 1 Agent Carter, we're caught up on TV at this moment, and I'm trying to fill in my Marvel movie holes- which should be done when I finish 'Winter Soldier.' We just watched "Ant-Man" and I caught "Thor 2" and began Cap 2, I just saw the mention of Dr Strange.)

Go ahead, George.

"Doctor Strangelove?" It certainly sounds like someone who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb....

That line of "reasoning" was what was used to belittle abortion, and was useful when trying to pressure a woman to have an abortion to remain in a program. The bludgeon that was used on her was the idea that she made a commitment to God Almighty when she agreed to enter the program, and to back out was to wuss out on God Almighty, and a later bludgeon was that people who did that were dung and trash and worthless.

It's a short hop between "funny" and "mean." This thread may have hopped across already.

The GSC STILL has posters representing a variety of positions, often contradicting each other. When one begins to think it's all in agreement, another look, much slower, is warranted.

Yes. Mrs Wolf didn't post the answer. She did, however, begin saying "BANANA!" in a Minion imitation when I posted the first quotes.

" Oh Walter, look, these adorable little freaks are headed to Orlando too!" "You're going to Villain-Con, aren't ya?" "Villain-Con!" "For me? Aww." "Si, para tu. Bye-bye!" "Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power..." "Banana!" "...Banana!"

That's not what it said. That said-and some of us know this from lots of places- that people were wrongly taught-as children, in school, and on television, and in books- that people of Columbus' time thought the world was flat. (It's possible that some uneducated peasants who didn't work at sea thought that, but educated people and people who worked on ships knew better, either by correct education, or by the evidence at sea.) So, some people, in 1960 and even today, think that the common folks, and the sailors, and the educated/nobility of Columbus' time thought the Earth was flat. They did not. Back in the days of the Greek Empire, there was even someone who used mathematics to calculate almost precisely the circumference of the Earth, (Eratosthenes) that is, how far around the Earth's surface is. You are free to believe whatever you wish. When you bring those beliefs into discussion, however, you run the risk of having people challenge or refute those beliefs, or call for you to support them with some evidence. If you don't want to get into that type of discussion, you might not want to introduce those ideas into conversations of one type or another. I leave a lot of my beliefs at the door, even ones I can support very well, just because I feel no need to "get into it" about them all the time. I'm sure other posters do the same. So, you're free to believe what you want, or post what you want, but others are free to post what they want also, so don't be surprised if your posts are challenged or refuted.

That was fast! yes, you have the round. For fun, can you name any others before you post the next one?

" Oh Walter, look, these adorable little freaks are headed to Orlando too!" "You're going to Villain-Con, aren't ya?" "Villain-Con!" "For me? Aww." "Si, para tu. Bye-bye!"

Here's a question with an EASY and a HARD answer. HARD question. Help! I'm a fish! In this animated story, a scientist's experiment turns 3 children into fish. Among the voice actors in the English dubbing (of the Danish film) were Alan Rickman and Terry Jones. What was the name of the English language release? EASY question. In this partly-animated story, a man somehow wished himself into the form of a fish. What was its name?

Ok, here's some cooking contests. Name any to take the round. 1) A professional chef has a roomful of chefs working in his restaurant, all trying to out-cook one another over all his yelling. 2) Bakery students all compete in what can be referred to as "Buddy's Challenge," trying to out-bake each other. 3) First the host, then locals, go to restaurants with challenges to eat either a LOT of food, or extremely spicy food, in a time-limit. 4) Chefs attempt to out-cook each other, and can SABOTAGE each other with auction items during the competition- forcing a chef to cook with foil rather than utensils- or cookware, to interrupt their cooking to perform a task, or anything else offered to make things more difficult. Pairs of professional cooks, usually the hosts and a local pair, compete across a town in challenges around cooking and food, in a race to the finish.

*reads a desc* Looks noteworthy, but I'm incredibly behind on my movie-watching. If I catch up, it looks like a movie I SHOULD watch.

Just a little reminder: There's a wide variety of beliefs represented here, across decades and threads. Don't be surprised if discussing whether something is true gets Pilate's response of "what is truth?"

I think any corporation would be suspicious of any "executive" who consistently refused to say who he was working for while extolling his great skills at working for them. It's a little hard to confirm his claims that he's any good if he redacts any way to check his credentials. BTW, it's easy to manage twi and keep things under-budget for day-to-day operations.... they just order the locals to cover all expenses out-of-pocket and order them to never complain about it. You can do that when you run a religious cult- and it works if what you're running IS a religious cult.

I think, in those cases, those people have been successful victims of gaslighting. I tend to think of it in the more narrow context of trying to make someone look crazy, but the definition has expanded beyond that. (As I can see.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting ================ We saw a good example of the creative rewriting here at the GSC. There was one poster who did it so consistently, he was predictable. I know because I predicted him. He posted an easily-correctable error. I corrected it, and predicted he would say it was never addressed, and that 6 months later he'd repost the same error. Almost to the day, 6 months later, he did exactly that. He got refuted on everything of substance he ever posted, and got called on his refusal to get specific with NEBULOUS comments that couldn't be discussed due to incredible vagueness. After a few years of that, he described the ongoing process where he was continuously refuted as where he posted things we were unable to answer and address-which was pretty much the opposite of what happened. I tended to think of it as a process he was doing intentionally. In hindsight, it appears he had no idea he was doing it.

The Rocky Mountains have had a lot more-but stone doesn't think. The rocks would be more bored- if either had the capacity to think. Algae doesn't think, fungus doesn't think, plants don't think. They are programmed to automatically respond certain ways to certain stimuli. They can't "decide to do otherwise." That's why we have the field of study called "agriculture." Even millenia ago, people had the capacity to observe plants and change certain things to direct their responses, or even to direct their programming. (Modern corn is a LOT more food-rich than that of millenia ago, before people began cultivating it.) Rocks and plants can't think, so they can't be bored. What about it? A MIRACLE breaks the rules. There's no "logical" reason for any miracle. A man walking on normal water, the loaves and fishes, those disregarded the normal, expected results of dealing with water or food. But a miracle is another thing. Jesus also said that the stones would cry out if the people remained silent. That doesn't mean that stones were aware and listening that whole time, or had ears to listen WITH or mouths to reply with. A mountain may have "mountaineers" but it lacks "mountain ears" to use when hearing it should get up and jump into the sea.

Scientists have mapped the entirety of plants. They know what all the "body" parts are. They have named them all-and they know what all the parts CAN do, and what all the parts DO. There is no part of the plant that can house a nervous system- let alone a functioning BRAIN. Plants lack the physical capacity to think.

It's hard to catch satire online. It helps if we have experience reading each others' style, but smilies suggest when one is being facetious, ironic, or anything else. Oh, and "hello."

That's him.

Another freaking episode? *sighs* No, haven't seen it yet. Signal me when the other shows resume- Arrow, Flash, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Legends of Tomorrow.

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We all knew not to trust hank Henshaw. It really surprised me to see the secret he was hiding. Considering he was "the cyborg Superman" during "Reign of the Supermen", this was really a complete shocker. Making Maxwell Lord a tech genius works, but it's a little lazy, IMHO. He's supposed to be another media genius who HIRES all the techs. I guess there's only room for ONE media darling- but it would have been interesting to see Cat Grant and Max Lord marshall their media muscle and rattle their sabers at each other.

I remember reading somewhere that the hippies in different areas were good targets in their time because they were unusually gullible and easy to draw into sects and cults and stuff. Whether or not that's true, young folks are generally more gullible and easier to draw into sects and cults and stuff. (Unless someone can bullseye a "midlife crisis".) twi has absolutely nothing to draw youngsters, and increasingly is a group of older, greying adherents. Any youths they have generally grew up there. Eventually, the whole group will just die out. CFF, for all its flaws, put together something to draw gullible youths, so if they have actual growth, it's not that surprising.