One nice thing is that the driving here is very passive - you can get into whatever lane you need to as late as you want.

One point of this post was to show that even though arguments for for religion are based on blind faith rather than any sort of methodology, arguments against religion can be just as bad if you don’t get the basic tenets of whatever science you’re using. I don’t like it when hardcore atheists use bad science to make a point. It’s analagous to politics: I’m liberal, but I dislike the hard-core left-wingers as much as the hardcore conservatives.

Even a hurricane, like Katrina, was sent over by God and was sent over to do damage to all the sinners. Because a lot of sinning happens in New Orleans, apparently. To a deeply religious person, it has noting to do with warm water, moist air, and converging winds. That would be too simplistic an explanation.

It is much easier to show people the damage that God can do, if you don’t follow scripture, versus explaining something as some random event that happens naturally. It would defeat the purpose of religion and expose God as not being the powerful being we should all be so fearful of.

This bad start that the Yankees are in, does that mean God hates all Yankee fans? I hope not. I know this really nice old lady across the street that’s a big Yankee fan, why is God punishing her? So anything bad that happens to me is all God’s work and he’s conspiring against me because I’m some evil mother f-cker.

I think not!

I sincerely feel there is no God, it is quite simply up to us to do what’s right and be accountable for own actions and life. There is no heaven and there is no hell, if there is a hell then it was in the streets of NYC during the crack epidemic in 80’s - yes Doruk, I know, I’m showing my age. Now I think of hell as being any nutty country in Africa.

I’d like to think I won the birth lottery, I’m not suffering through a life of despair and making dirt cookies - i.e Hati. If there is a God, then he never would have let me off the hook that easy. Ha!

Unless Doruk is my Personal Jesus.

Thinking about Smits got me to thinking about Detlef Schrempf. The guy was funny-looking but he was good. Check out his stats - especially the 92-93 season, though I’m assuming that was a contract year since he switched teams after it: http://www.nba.com/playerfile/detlef_schrempf/index.html

So maybe the Knicks are sort of marquee but not really on that top level. No way can you put them on the same level as Celtics and Lakers. Anyway, Jesse, at least I threw you a bone with the Yankees but you’ll have to deal with the fact that your Knicks aren’t that important outside of Manhattan.

I thought you’d have something up by now. WTF?

Had completely forgotten about Rik Smits. Not to be racist, but white centers have always cracked me up. Smits, Greg Ostertag, Luc Longley. Too bad Sabonis wasn’t healthy when he got to the NBA to negate this post.

“Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses, Hera may bear in her hand the pomegranate, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy.”

A goddess tempting you with the anti-cancer as an alternative to heroine. Can you ever find a more perfect portrayal of the danger that is a beautiful woman? I swear the Greeks had it all figured out thousands of years ago.