From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V10 #16 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, February 22 2006 Volume 10 : Number 016 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Tilted to the north ["PhotoTwang" ] Re: Tilted to the north [meredith ] Re: who cares who was gay? ["Kris Richardson" ] Re: tilted slightly toward the north [Steve Murphy Subject: Tilted to the north My own take on the "tilted slightly toward the north" line is a real basic one. As one looks at the globe that is our Earth, the northern hemisphere tilts north, literally, and the southern hemisphere tilts south. ~Richard HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:57:21 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tilted to the north Hi, PhotoTwang wrote: > My own take on the "tilted slightly toward the north" line is a real basic > one. As one looks at the globe that is our Earth, the northern hemisphere > tilts north, literally, and the southern hemisphere tilts south. This is why I always took the line to mean that the power is oozing up slightly north to Washington from the deep South. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:21:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Kris Richardson" Subject: Re: who cares who was gay? I think she's relating it to the next line. "Tilted slightly toward the North, the immigrants pour forth...", meaning they flow like water from Mexico into Arizona. Then again she could have been just looking for a word to rhyme with "forth"? =) Kris >> one time at band camp, Ron Rosen said: >>> I'm more interested in "tilted slightly toward the north." Is that a >>> geographic fact? >> >> i think she's speaking metaphorically here, perhaps in terms of wealth >> or power? i've always taken it that way though now that i think about >> it, i'm not so sure -- at least in recent decades, as far as >> political power goes anyway. > > I'm not so sure. If she's trying to say that the power in the US is in > the north, I wouldn't think that to be accurate. The prez is from > Texas and a lot of southern folks in Congress have a lot of power. I > just don't see it as accurate, nor do I see it as a point worth making > at this juncture in US history. We really don't think in terms of > north and south. > > I started thinking about this. Water can't flow uphill, right? So all > the rivers in the US flow either to the west coast, the east coast or > southerly to the Mississippi and then south to the gulf. So I'd say > the US must be tilted so the water in the center flows south. On the > other hand, when you're talking about tilting, you could say it either > way. Something tilted toward the north either is higher in the north > or lower in the north, depending on how you're looking at it. > > HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org > Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs > http://worldcafecds.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:35:09 -0500 From: Steve Murphy Subject: Re: tilted slightly toward the north RE: "tilted slightly toward the north." Maybe it's just about the spherical shape of the earth and where we lie on it? Steve HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V10 #16 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message