Brian
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Mine is more funny.
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The devil made me do it!
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Fishing for a ban again... <sigh> Welcome, sageofthesixpaths!
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The reason is that we do not perceive light with a single polychrome receptor but with receptors which pick up one of three bands of frequency and then we blend them in the brain. We leverage this model in the ways we produce colors and tints, too, so we tend to think about colors as literally being "a wheel" rather than "a spectrum."
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I have a theory...
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LOL My brain "fixed" ChiForce's post when I read it so I didn't realize Aetherous was clarifying a mangled phrase!
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Crocodile is original origin of Chinese Dragon: Ancient Taoist Origins
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The first word is the Cherokee word for "Cherokee" (transliterated as Tsalagi). That's not their name for themselves, though, it is the name others applied to them, which may have originally meant "people who live in the mountains" or "people who live in the cave country." The second word is a variation of their own name for themselves -- "แ แแดแซแฏ" means "principal people" or "original people." Cherokee origin story has first man and first woman living at what is now called Shining Rock, (curiously enough, where I currently live). I don't speak Tsalagi Gawonihisdi, however, or read the syllabary so I can't translate the rest.
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Talking pie to Indians? Well, there's your problem right there! http://nativerecipes.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-cherokee-princesses-cook.html Cakes? Breads? Yep. Curiously, though, not so much about pies.
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Yes. It is a principle worth researching, often conflated with "wu wei." Here's a starting point: http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/loy3.htm In Stillness-Movement, we sometimes use the phrase "dancing in Wu Wei" to convey this concept.
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Tear the roof off the sucker Both George Clinton and Bootsy Collins are/were quite talented. (Bootsy's Rubber Band still tours, too -- my son was surprised to learn that I knew who he was after my son went to see him in Asheville a couple years ago...)
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The funniest and simultaneously saddest part is, the one thing this person craves most, as evidenced (see what I did there?) on his first day of "activation," is to be "banned for no reason." It is a part of the MPG victimhood mythos and a fulfillment of prophecy which is being denied.
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No need to apologize to me but you may wanna talk to these fellas: http://islam101.com/dawah/newBorn.htm
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Sometimes a member will intentionally steer a runaway thread back to the original topic or sometimes a Moderator will split a thread to divert the off-topic stream into its own channel. Either approach can be helpful but thes generally come after the fact and sometimes (especially if the OP "ain't from around here") this chaotic out-of-control response from the community can have an unintended stifling and discouraging effect. I think we (including the "royal we") are well advised to bear this in mind.
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Strictly speaking, pink is not a color of its own but it light red. We often think of pink, however, as being a family of colors which include light red mixed with bluish or orangey colors (see: shades of pink). As a single frequency or wavelength, though, "pink" is "red." This may help:
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<pedant_hat> That's nice but pink isn't in that location in the spectrum. Seems a shame to be teaching small children so patently wrong, I think. Using English names, we typically follow "blue" with "indigo" and "violet." Pink is a light shade of red so it is at the far other end of a very faint rainbow. </pedant_hat>
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Yes, it has -- and it has caused me to reevaluate my motivation in creating the thread, my assumptions/beliefs/attachments associated with the topic, and to examine my own reaction to the derailing. On occasion, it has made me angry (well, as angry as I get -- my emotional spectrum is a bit subdued) and that leads to laughter as I realize how silly I've been. For me, it serves as a gentle nudge from friends when I take myself too seriously.
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Here it is again, for those who don't want to wade back through pages of whateverthisis: What is OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE? Quantifiable information that can verified through the use of analytical tools and other forms of research Law Dictionary: What is OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE? definition of OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE (Black's Law Dictionary)
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Wait, I thought everyone is a Muslim?