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Two things I miss about South Carolina (my home state): pulled pork, and ghost stories. It's almost like an epidemic there. There's one for everything. The cool thing is that most of them are creepy. In fact, Fade names the creatures he encounters after SC ghosts (it's set there). The hag article above reminded me of SC's ghost infatuation.
There's one I particularly like called the Hound of Goshen, which is similar in some respects to Jurassic Bark. It's the ghost of an ill-fated traveler's dog that sat atop his grave until it died of starvation. Carriages and cars along the road report a large, white dog that noiselessly travels alongside them, keeping pace no matter the speed. At the closed cemetery gates, the dog turns and bounds through.
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I totally forgot about the science discussion! I feel like Tackleberry showing up after the gunfight.
Here's some Actual Slides™ I use in my Geology 101 class about this very topic: http://egg.louisiana.edu/~jack/science.pdf
There's one I particularly like called the Hound of Goshen, which is similar in some respects to Jurassic Bark. It's the ghost of an ill-fated traveler's dog that sat atop his grave until it died of starvation. Carriages and cars along the road report a large, white dog that noiselessly travels alongside them, keeping pace no matter the speed. At the closed cemetery gates, the dog turns and bounds through.
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I totally forgot about the science discussion! I feel like Tackleberry showing up after the gunfight.
Here's some Actual Slides™ I use in my Geology 101 class about this very topic: http://egg.louisiana.edu/~jack/science.pdf
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yeah, and this one just froze up my computer!
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(True story.. as I was typing this the first time, my computer literally froze, which it NEVER does!!)
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(True story.. as I was typing this the first time, my computer literally froze, which it NEVER does!!)
The answer to every single ghost story ever in history:
1) You were dreaming
2) You wanted attention
3) You exaggerated something
4) You were hallucinating
Or any combination of the 4.
1) You were dreaming
2) You wanted attention
3) You exaggerated something
4) You were hallucinating
Or any combination of the 4.
Actually that thing about the "Earth is flat" being a thing 2000 years ago was a misconception last time i checked...
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Philosophers tend to think about common things especially if they are professional philosophers with nothing else to do.
I'm pretty sure 2000 years ago would be at most the 1st century BC: Spherical Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah, they did have ideas about the Earth being flat, but it wasn't exactly the only idea around...
I'm afraid we must demand that you change your presentation to state that "2300 years ago there was still a debate about whether or not the world was flat, spherical or on the back of a turtle"!!!
Yeah, they did have ideas about the Earth being flat, but it wasn't exactly the only idea around...
I'm afraid we must demand that you change your presentation to state that "2300 years ago there was still a debate about whether or not the world was flat, spherical or on the back of a turtle"!!!
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makare
Hmm how do we assess this? Are we going by what the average person thought or what educated people thought? Even today there is quite a disparity there back then probably even more so.
You want to invite Aristotle over for dinner, poison him and bury him in your tomato garden?!
But i remember Asimov writing a response to some lit student about how science wasn't so much wrong as simply evolving or something that mentioned how even more ancient peoples realised the earth had a curvature by seeing how ships or other stuff slowly disappeared on the horizon etc... so it wasn't as simple as them just being flat earthers...
But it's not really that important that i'm being very serious about you having to change your presentation...
But i remember Asimov writing a response to some lit student about how science wasn't so much wrong as simply evolving or something that mentioned how even more ancient peoples realised the earth had a curvature by seeing how ships or other stuff slowly disappeared on the horizon etc... so it wasn't as simple as them just being flat earthers...
But it's not really that important that i'm being very serious about you having to change your presentation...
Actually that was kinda what i was thinking of when i said it was a misconception...
fade
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Well I did say "common knowledge" in the presentation.
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Like I said, I'm not arguing that other people put forth the idea before Aristotle. That was most likely true. But Aristotle, being the bug in people's ears, probably brought it to the forefront.
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Like I said, I'm not arguing that other people put forth the idea before Aristotle. That was most likely true. But Aristotle, being the bug in people's ears, probably brought it to the forefront.
Well... fine, i'll have to accept it then....
Oh, and something for the previous thing: Georges Lemaître - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.[1][2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre#cite_note-1
Man, i should have known from the get go that the reason why it was so similar to some mythology is because a priest was involved...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre#cite_note-1
Cajungal
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Oh man, this happens to me a lot right as I'm falling asleep! It's so spooky... I dream a lot at night, and usually I'll have those falling dreams that wake me just as I'm drifting off. The falling is usually accompanied by some sort of loud voice. Not supernatural, but still weird. And kinda fun.
I'm not saying you're crazy or anything. It's happened to me before, about twice. Sounds plain as anything and then goes away.
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