Kevin's Watch

www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

And yet, on a summer's day, it is just right to warm the skin to a pleasant temperature, bring out the smiles and start sunny circles. It's nearly enough to make me believe in 'intelligent design'.

(sunny circles is my name for ... the sun shines, you start smiling, you come into my shop and because you're smiling I start smiling, because I'm smiling the next customer i serve starts smiling, and so on)

Stonemaybe wrote:www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

And yet, on a summer's day, it is just right to warm the skin to a pleasant temperature, bring out the smiles and start sunny circles. It's nearly enough to make me believe in 'intelligent design'.

The Sun, and the position of the Earth, is just right to bring humanity to ask that question!

It's nearly enough to make me believe in 'intelligent design'.

But what about skin cancer?

Malik23 wrote:

But what about skin cancer?

We expose ourselves to something that BIG and that HOT and there's a slight chance of skin cancer. Overall I'd say we're damn lucky!

It's nearly enough to make me believe in 'intelligent design'.

Yeah, there are some pretty narrow margins involved, and if we were on the only planet like this, orbiting the only star like ours, then I'd just have to say it was too damn odd to be coincidence, but, uh.... Well, but:

I don't think this proves that the Intelligent Design argument is true or right. It could be that everything happened by chance just like winning someone against the odds.

The odds of winning the lottery are pretty long ... but someone wins every week. The power of multitudes can counter the power of long odds.

We expose ourselves to something that BIG and that HOT and there's a slight chance of skin cancer.

So THATS why there has been little sport of late..... (Sorry, couldn't help it)

Stonemaybe wrote: (sunny circles is my name for ... the sun shines, you start smiling, you come into my shop and because you're smiling I start smiling, because I'm smiling the next customer i serve starts smiling, and so on)

That may be how it works in the UK, but when the sun shines here, I just try to find the shade.

Murrin wrote:

It's nearly enough to make me believe in 'intelligent design'.

Yeah, there are some pretty narrow margins involved, and if we were on the only planet like this, orbiting the only star like ours, then I'd just have to say it was too damn odd to be coincidence, but, uh.... Well, but:

It just happens that the Moon and the Sun appear the same size in the sky as viewed from the Earth. And since the Moon orbits the Earth in approximately the same plane as the Earth's orbit around the Sun sometimes the Moon comes directly between the Earth and the Sun.

My personal faith has little or nothing to do with these external coincidences, but there're so many of them and they're so... weird.

Also, that 40 to the 10th power stuff... *clutches head*

Nice pic Murrin.

Man, I could do with some sun myself...it's damn cold here at the moment.

Karmic ripples is what they are StoneMaybe. They work in reverse too. And we don't need the sun to motivate us to start the right kind either.

--A

Karmic ripples

Never heard this term before, but yes! that explains my sunny circles!

The example I usually use to explain the negative side of them is of a person walking into a shop, and getting too much change. Now that's great. But the shopkeeper realises and is upset, and short-changes the next customer, who gets angry when he realises, goes home and kicks the dog, who barks and wakes the baby, who screams and pisses off the wife and the neighbour, and so it goes.

The reverse is a much better way of dong it.

--A

Can't wait to see page three of this thread

Avatar wrote:

The example I usually use to explain the negative side of them is of a person walking into a shop, and getting too much change. Now that's great. But the shopkeeper realises and is upset, and short-changes the next customer, who gets angry when he realises, goes home and kicks the dog, who barks and wakes the baby, who screams and pisses off the wife and the neighbour, and so it goes.

I like to think of it as a domino effect - karmic dominoes, if you like! It's a wonderful example of the complex interplay of cause and effect in the universe...and how quickly and profoundly energy can change form.

Forgive me for using this example as it's a bit depressing but take Hurricane Katrina last year. A tremendously powerful physical force of nature is transformed over a period of weeks into a political, human, emotional storm sparking off feelings of grief & sorrow, anger, resentment, racial injustice, indignation etc. (and, I presume, hope too!)

Suppose it all gets a bit chaos theory at some point. A butterful flaps its wings in Tibet...How curious the idea that chaos theory and karma could be linked...?

I can't believe that no Limey have understood my joke yet. Ah well, perhaps they did

"Limey"?

sorry prebe I must've been under thw weather the other day when I read your 'joke'!

It did, however, get a groan this evening!

Murrin:
lim·ey ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lm)
n. Slang pl. lim·eys
A British sailor.
An English person.

I.e. a person familiar with the tabloid paper The Sun.

A groan is certainly better than nothing stone-maybe.