From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #8 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, January 10 2006 Volume 06 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction [meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction On Saturday 07 January 2006 14:18, Laconia wrote: > I don't think any religious organizations should be tax-exempt. > > I think it's fine for people to use their bodies in an athletic, natural > way, if one can call running and smashing into other people on a rugby > field "natural." Yeah, that's the point. Rugby, IMO, is a high-risk venture. Are rugby players entitled to be fixed up at public expense? Are skydivers? Are people who jump motorcycles over rows of cars? Or, (to bring it back vaguely On Topic), movie stunt men. (And women, of course). Or do they (should they) have to buy extra insurance? > But drugs are unnatural substances to put into one's > body. > > So yes to public assistance for debilitated ex-athletes, no to people who > deliberately put foreign substances into their bodies and eventually wreck > them that way. Such as steroids? > Consistent? Maybe not, but that's my opinion > > What's your opinion? See above... cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:21:01 +1300 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:16, NZJester wrote: > >But if you insist on being Pope I might just promote myself. Now who > >outranks the Pope? I think I'll just have to be a minor god. I > > haven't decided just what of yet. Suggestions welcomed. (But nothing > > too disgusting please, I don't want to be god of warts. Or > > cockroaches). How 'bout god of waves. That sounds cool. I've just > > been splashing about in them. But come to think of it, God of Waves > > implies some sort of control over them which I manifestly haven't got, > > particularly not the big one that caught me by surprise today, I guess > > that might be tempting Fate. Or the Fates. > > > > > >Ford, Ford. > > Strife was killed off on Herc so his job as a minor god is up for grabs > > I think you would make a good God of Strife > You have had enough practice ;-p ROTFL! But wasn't he reincarnated, even more flaky, as Deimos? Actually, I was bobbing gently around in the waves in Waitakere Bay the evening before last, resting my feet (I'd just been for a long arduous hike along the cliff path below the Gablaunch site, anyway Waitakere Bay was where Xena walked out of the water in that gorgeous white dress in Return of the Valkyrie... and the water was *warm*... ) and I was thinking, "How about God of Gravity?" After all, gravity is why the waves were working so nicely to float me around. Gravity's kinda insidious, it's an incredibly weak force, the gravitational attraction between Xena and Gabby for instance is undetectable, say about .000000000000000000000005% of the force with which Joxer hits the ground, but it's always attractive (unlike every other force, there's no 'opposite' polarity) and it decreases much more slowly with distance. Which is why such cool things as neutron stars and black holes exist. And why persons falling off cliffs suddenly find out how much the earth weighs when it lands on them. And if gravity switched off for a moment, not only would everyone go floating off into space, but the Earth would accompany them - in little bits. Well, big bits actually. Millions of very big bits. And who do you think turns down gravity on request just when Xena is doing all those fancy leaps? So, God of Gravity. Bow down to me (or I'll just double the gravitational constant in your neighborhood and make you :) cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:37:30 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction Hi, cr wrote: > So, God of Gravity. Bow down to me (or I'll just double the gravitational > constant in your neighborhood and make you :) Ah, but don't forget that the Pope is infallible. As in, gravity can't make me fall down. And besides, I have a stylin' miter and you don't. Therefore, I infallibly declare Gravity to be demoted to the position of minor saint. A very small saint. Like, say, the size of a singularity. ;) Fiat, Fiat. And not because I don't like Audis. - -- =============================================== 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 =============================================== ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:48:06 -0600 From: "Laconia" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction I didn't quite catch your opinion. Do YOU think people who engage in high-risk activities should have to buy extra insurance? By the way, I think people who go to places where they might have to get themselves rescued, e.g., back-country backpackers, should have to buy extra insurance or put down a deposit for the rescue costs. I'm not sure about athletes, though. ***** - ----- Original Message ----- From: "cr" To: Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Was Legacy and now addiction > On Saturday 07 January 2006 14:18, Laconia wrote: >> I don't think any religious organizations should be tax-exempt. >> >> I think it's fine for people to use their bodies in an athletic, natural >> way, if one can call running and smashing into other people on a rugby >> field "natural." > > Yeah, that's the point. Rugby, IMO, is a high-risk venture. Are rugby > players entitled to be fixed up at public expense? Are skydivers? Are > people who jump motorcycles over rows of cars? Or, (to bring it back > vaguely On Topic), movie stunt men. (And women, of course). Or do they > (should they) have to buy extra insurance? > >> But drugs are unnatural substances to put into one's >> body. >> >> So yes to public assistance for debilitated ex-athletes, no to people who >> deliberately put foreign substances into their bodies and eventually >> wreck >> them that way. > > Such as steroids? > >> Consistent? Maybe not, but that's my opinion >> >> What's your opinion? > > See above... > > cr > ========================================================= > This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. > To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with > "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. > Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. > ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:58:24 -0500 From: "bookdaft" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT: Reminder - I'm Taking Free Xena Comics to Burbank Xena Con Folks, I am sending this out to remind those people who are going to Burbank that I am prepared to take some of the Xena comics I have and give them away to those who request them. Send me an e-mail privately and I will get back to you. If you have already contacted me from my prior posting, there is no need to contact me again. I will try to send instructions to you privately, but I may run out of time. I will repost information again tomorrow night, so watch this space as I may post the instructions here, rather than individually. bd ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. 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