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Difficulty: Hard Sunday, March 9, 2008

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CHAT LOG for Sunday, March 9, 2008

12:07 am
trueheart11

go
12:34 am
WHB

Done
3:34 am
eyeman

done. back to bed. Welcome DST.
5:00 am
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
5:28 am
UnikeTheHunter

Done. Plenty greens.
5:29 am
kixx

go
6:24 am
kixx

done, with greens, medium difficulty
8:08 am
drwho

Difficulty score 35. Needed green.
8:16 am
Andy

Sure... give us a hard puzzle when we have only 23 hours to do it instead of 24 :)
8:16 am
Andy

go
8:23 am
Andy

15 filled. stuck. going green
8:26 am
angieplumptit

fun puzzle
8:27 am
angieplumptit

didn't even need the guardian angle
8:28 am
angieplumptit

And now, let us pray.
8:29 am
Andy

done
8:29 am
angieplumptit

Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee. Amen
8:29 am
Andy

Quite easy when you use Snorkelheimer's inversion. Of course, I have my own special modification which is known only to me.
8:30 am
Andy

Can you pray for my kidney stone to pass? I've maxed out on painkillers and am still in agony.
8:30 am
angieplumptit

Share!
8:30 am
Andy

Of course, I'm an atheist so I can't pray myself so you need to do it for me.
8:30 am
Andy

That'll work, right?
8:31 am
angieplumptit

Uh oh, time to convene the prayer group.
8:31 am
angieplumptit

OK, everyone, we're gonna pray for that kidney stone>
8:31 am
Andy

Whoever's prayers make the stone pass will get the stone in a special vial for their home altars.
8:32 am
angieplumptit

Omigawd, I'm right on it.
8:32 am
Andy

Or, better still, you can start a shrine to me (for, why wouldn't you want one?) using the stone as the central relic.
8:32 am
Andy

Hurshy's gonna hate me...
8:33 am
angieplumptit

It could bring Fang back from the dead!
8:33 am
Andy

My kidney stone has that power??
8:33 am
angieplumptit

Grow uncle Hector Doink's finger back!
8:34 am
angieplumptit

Just light a candle in front of it.
8:34 am
angieplumptit

And make a gift of love offering.
8:34 am
angieplumptit

Omigawd, do I dare ask for my Beretta?
8:35 am
Andy

Glad to be of service.
8:35 am
angieplumptit

The sermon on the mount shower curtain?
8:35 am
Andy

Sorry Hurshy!
8:36 am
Andy

:)
8:36 am
Andy

In my defense, I'm out of my mind on vicodin right now...
8:36 am
angieplumptit

Saints Peter and Paul salt and pepper shakers?!
8:36 am
Andy

I have nun salt shakers around here somewhere... scary catholic school nun shakers...
8:36 am
angieplumptit

Not vicodin, the Power!
8:37 am
Andy

vicodin is the power...
8:37 am
Andy

well... it's not working so I'm not sure what's up...
8:38 am
angieplumptit

We are all praying. It will pass.. Have faith.
8:38 am
angieplumptit

And another vicodin.
8:39 am
aa

He'll have whatever it takes to make the pain go away!
8:39 am
angieplumptit

Just in case the BF is otherwise occupied.
8:39 am
angieplumptit

Saving cancer sufferers and such.
8:40 am
angieplumptit

Just can't understand why He won't raise my dog from the dead...
8:40 am
Andy

aa's next to me working on the puzzle complaining about my complaining :)
8:40 am
angieplumptit

Only a small dog.
8:40 am
Andy

Maybe he's worried about the grooming issues?
8:41 am
angieplumptit

I could easily dig him up if that would help.
8:41 am
angieplumptit

Hose him down.
8:42 am
angieplumptit

Folks, we gotta concentrate.
8:42 am
angieplumptit

Bear down.
8:42 am
bgmadden

Ok you two...I can't focus because I'm cracking up to much....
8:42 am
angieplumptit

That kidney stone is history!
8:43 am
Andy

Angie, we gotta take this act on the road... I'm gonna be in vegas in August for a conference... we could trial it there...
8:43 am
Andy

I have family in the catskills...
8:44 am
angieplumptit

OK, Ok! Let's get an eight year old girl to sing hymns.
8:44 am
spellacked

Hmm... usual a Hard has a hidden pair or something -- this fell out quite quickly with a couple of obvious pairs, once I went green at least
8:44 am
angieplumptit

White dress. Blond curls.
8:45 am
angieplumptit

And all major credit cards accepted!
8:45 am
angieplumptit

I'll be there!
8:48 am
Andy

OK, this has been great but my son's birthday party is today and the digital camera needs a new battery (Bob Dole stays up longer than this battery does) and blah blah blah.. busy day... yadda yadda.
8:48 am
Andy

kthxbia
8:48 am
Andy

kthxbai, I mean
9:45 am
hurshy

hurshy does not mind people joking around a bit, not at all. it was more the relentless every day joking on the same topic.
10:04 am
brittlefish.com

go (and here here, Hurshey)
10:05 am
hurshy

it's interesting, if you think about it, that all faith assumptions get made fun of except atheism (for it is, as many smarter than i have noted, as much a faith assumption to be sure that there is definitely not a God as it is to be sure that there is a God - agnostics are the ones without faith...and even they don't usually lack it because they have searched and questioned and not found, but because they have not cared to search)
10:06 am
hurshy

maybe that is WHY atheists don't realize that they have a faith - because they don't get made fun of - so they figure, their belief must be rational, and that's why it isn't mocked
10:07 am
hurshy

but, if p then q does not lead to if not q then not p.
10:09 am
hurshy

i would hypothesize that it is rather that the faith assumption of a certain type of God, of any type at all, really, lends itself to mocking... and it doesn't really do the people being mocked any harm - because if we happen to be right, then we're all set, and if we are wrong, all that happens is we die like the rest.
10:10 am
hurshy

whereas, believing in the absence of something provides no foothold, if you will, for mockery, AND if atheists are wrong, then, it's just sad that they are missing out on knowing God. which would make it sad to make fun of them.
10:12 am
brittlefish.com

i applaud your return, Hurshey
10:12 am
hurshy

my return?
10:12 am
hurshy

i didn't go anywhere
10:12 am
ypsigirl

Done
10:13 am
brittlefish.com

:) you seem to have been absent lately, at least when a.p.t. was spouting profusely of late
10:13 am
hurshy

i haven't been chatting on babble, but i've been here. and angie has toned it down so recently, like a sweetheart, out of kindness to me.
10:14 am
hurshy

unless i've just missed some rants :)
10:15 am
brittlefish.com

i guess my hackles have been in a wad lately since apt started going on again and you're the only one who has had the patient wit to calm the ... banter
10:16 am
hurshy

angie and i had a nice chat... oh, maybe a week ago...
10:16 am
brittlefish.com

thank you thank you bless you. your style is admirable.
10:18 am
hurshy

well, you see, there's really no reason at all to get hackles in a wad. in fact, my pity is probably more irritating to an atheist than any mocking could ever be to me.
10:18 am
hurshy

not that i have pity in order to irritate, of course.
10:21 am
hurshy

and incidentally, my comments are not at all meant to be construed as supporting the idea that you should believe "just in case" - was that pascal or descartes...? because, well, that just doesn't work. you can't MAKE yourself believe something you don't really believe.
10:22 am
brittlefish.com

as for hackles, completely understand and agree. but not having the delicate touch you possess just leaves me gritting my teeth -- not at apt, but at my lack of knowing what to say. don't want to stoke the fire, if you know what mean.
10:24 am
hurshy

well, i find that it helps me to remember that no matter what, we are all human beings and therefore should try to treat each other humanely and with respect.
10:24 am
brittlefish.com

pascal, i believe, offered the just-in-case argument, among others. pascal's wager.
10:25 am
hurshy

yes, silly pascal. should have stuck to math, philosophy didn't suit him as well.
10:26 am
brittlefish.com

:)
10:27 am
hurshy

but i don't have such admirable patience across the board, as people are well aware. my weakness of snobbery toward the unintelligent is most unfortunate.
10:28 am
hurshy

which brings us back to the old standby, "nobody's perfect".
10:28 am
hurshy

not even mary poppins.
10:30 am
brittlefish.com

:) i have found snobbery comes back around to bite me. as soon as i get high and mighty about anything, God finds a way to clear things up for me pretty well.
10:31 am
hurshy

it's odd because, actually, i can be very patient with lack of intelligence if i'm tutoring somebody in math.
10:32 am
hurshy

i guess maybe it is more frustrating to me when there's nothing i can do to help.
10:32 am
hurshy

or when, say, the unintelligent person is the leader of the free world.
10:35 am
brittlefish.com

yeah, the late 70s and most of the 90s were pretty bad :)
10:35 am
hurshy

jimmy carter, my favorite president, may not have been effectual, but he was not unintelligent.
10:36 am
brittlefish.com

:)
10:36 am
hurshy

and i rather don't think the charge can be fairly aimed at bill either.
10:37 am
hurshy

but then, perhaps bush, like jessica simpson, is not as dumb as he seems, but plays it up for effect, and takes advantage of the unintelligence of the masses.
10:40 am
hurshy

thankfully, whatever happens this election, our new president will be reasonably intelligent, and able to speak in coherent sentences.
10:43 am
hurshy

i'm being so irrational. because really, other weaknesses could be far more dangerous to the country, and i have really no idea which personal weaknesses ARE the most dangerous, and yet, because i find one particular one irritating, i'm harder on it and more anxious to have a president without it.
10:45 am
brittlefish.com

done. auto g+r. pretty easy after with g+r.
10:46 am
hurshy

sorry for blathering on while you were trying to focus :) i should go do some chores and errands and things. ttfn
10:48 am
brittlefish.com

okay, hurshy. have a good one. and while my opinion of mere world affairs differs from your's, kudos again for your deft handling of greater things. :)
10:50 am
Andy

I would strongly argue that atheism is NOT a faith in and of itself. But this is hardly the right forum for so deep a philosophical discussion. To me, it's simply a matter of evidence and what makes sense. My world view just plain works without the divine and I need no faith in that concept. I just have no need for it. There's nothing active in that belief any more than I need an active belief in gravity.
10:55 am
hurshy

but, dear andy, evidence and proof are two different things. neither of us has the latter, and we clearly see the evidence different ways, and what makes sense to us differs. my world view just plain works with the divine, and experientially, it doesn't FEEL like faith any more than yours does to you. for me, the fact that God exists is something i have just "known" ever since i can remember.
10:57 am
hurshy

and why isn't it the right forum? anytime's a good time for a good discussion, in my opinion, if it is a polite and respectful one.
10:58 am
hurshy

perhaps, though, you are then actually an agnostic, rather than an atheist?
11:01 am
hurshy

the difference being that an atheist would assert firmly that there is no God, while an agnostic might say, i have seen no evidence of one.
11:04 am
hurshy

i know, i know, i was going to do chores. but i had to take a scrabulous turn, and then i thought i'd just pop back and see if brittlefish had said goodbye... NOW i shall go.
11:11 am
Andy

hehe
11:12 am
Andy

Had to run downstairs to kick the inkjet printer. Imagine the nerve of the thing: refusing to print just because all of the ink has run out.
11:12 am
Andy

I prefer nice red wine or a nice single-malt for this kind of discussion. Not vicodin and pain. Catch me another day when I can be more coherent...
11:14 am
yul

hello everybody
11:32 am
smooth_pappa

good morning! start!
11:38 am
smooth_pappa

20 in and it just slowed down
11:40 am
yul

no green. have a great day everybody
11:40 am
smooth_pappa

good job yul
11:43 am
smooth_pappa

and done here, with no greens, as well.
3:34 pm
katmama

ahh...17 in and feeling quite stuck
3:43 pm
katmama

done...only used greens in three blocks - fun puzzle :)
4:05 pm
sandbox74

commence
4:11 pm
Alessandi

go
4:19 pm
sandbox74

done.. no greens.. but had t do a restart... some error in my reasoning.. sheesh.. bad bad bad
4:22 pm
Alessandi

Done no green.
4:35 pm
Montreal13

done..with some green stuff... - have a great day all !