<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><br><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">spike says:</span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> All I have are the two hemispheres. One is filled with poetry, the other, equations. It’s all I have. I love my bride with equations and poetry. All my heart does is beat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Au contraire - you have a limbic system. Don't you math guys love equations? Limbic system. Aren't some equations more elegant than others? Limbic system. How about sex (not gender). Limbic system. Great food. LImbic system and so on.</span></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span> </p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Pascal commented the heart knows reasons that reason knows not.</span> Limbic system. KNown to Hume - far ahead of his time. Emotion more important then reason. Proved just recently in cortex studies.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As soon as I hear anyone argue that anything used to be better (with the possible exception of popular music) I already know that person is beyond reason. In the olden days everything sucked compared to now (temporarily ignoring that awful hip-hop rap business, oy vey who the hell ordered that?)</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Fact - our musical tastes tend to gel around the age of 35.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">>… (LOL, they were saying all this fear mongering about china, while at the same time talking about how we can’t even force puny Afghanistan to adopt our form of government.)…</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Those people are about as far away from being ready for democracy as they can get. Tribalism is what they know.</span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> you must replace every single pronoun with he, she or it and his, her or its. Oh that makes speech clumsy. Then if you have a special peeve about people using “they” and “their” for the genderless singular, oh the suffering is intense. What’s a poor grammar gestapo to do? Shriek in pain? Tried that, they won’t stop. Cruel they are, callous, just relentlessly wicked, merciless.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Using they etc. for the singular is as old as Shakespeare, who did it first.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1290025486283050309WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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