tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post273900445374916180..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: ObliterationGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-48692216872476194932012-12-01T10:38:17.855-05:002012-12-01T10:38:17.855-05:00Heh... no need to apologise, Gail (well, not unles...Heh... no need to apologise, Gail (well, not unless you're responsible for Blogger, that is! :)). Wise words from you re: copying long comments... <br /><br />... but in any event my two posts above suggest I must have hit 'Publish', not realising that I had. Serves me right for spending time on the innerwebz at a time when I should really be asleep :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36192682414796398442012-12-01T08:30:42.099-05:002012-12-01T08:30:42.099-05:00Sorry about Blogger's failings, Pendantry. Th...Sorry about Blogger's failings, Pendantry. They are legion but I am stuck in a bad relationship. (I always copy comments as I go if they get longer than a few sentences. Saves grief.)Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-30668992879913449432012-12-01T02:07:46.540-05:002012-12-01T02:07:46.540-05:00Damn I hate this comment system. Spend ages compos...Damn I hate this comment system. Spend ages composing a post, complete with links and puns and stuff, wander off for five minutes, come back and it's magically disappeared. Computers, you gotta love 'em.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-4233516290914477902012-12-01T01:29:53.795-05:002012-12-01T01:29:53.795-05:00Put simply, people don't quit smoking because ...<i>Put simply, people don't quit smoking because it's a little bit bad for their health. They quit because they have been told it's going to KILL them, and that is why I think the only way people radically alter their behavior is if they have had the wits scared out of them.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://pendantry.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/accepting-unreality/" rel="nofollow">Me, too</a>.<br /><br />That trailer for 'World War Z' is awesome -- I hope you're wrong about the timing (don't we all?). <br /><br />... watching 'Arctic Methane...' now -- holy crap, methane clathrate deposits are thought to have <b>three times</b> the hydrocarbon of all the oil, coal and gas we know about? I've been so wrong; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iSsPHytEnJM#t=242s" rel="nofollow">we aren't toast; we're that acrid black stuff you get when you forget to hit 'eject'</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-30218036523248527612012-11-29T09:15:38.862-05:002012-11-29T09:15:38.862-05:00"the moral imperative to enlighten people&quo...<i>"the moral imperative to enlighten people"</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HquZQ-hTSMA" rel="nofollow">We've a Story to Tell to the Nations</a>; evangelize the world with the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=PFY31MIubG4#t=01m35s" rel="nofollow">Good News (Gospel)</a> that will bring a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_news_(Christianity)" rel="nofollow">healing of the brokenness of the entire created universe.</a>"<br /><br />What should be done with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o" rel="nofollow">heretics</a> who won't make the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress" rel="nofollow">Pilgrim's Progress</a> to <a href="http://bible.cc/john/8-12.htm" rel="nofollow">enlightenment</a>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-33661370867705247212012-11-28T21:54:08.881-05:002012-11-28T21:54:08.881-05:00I've listened to both these lower two videos b...I've listened to both these lower two videos before -- or a very similar one from Guy, pre-Sandy, but I'm such a doomist that I listened again. Confirmation bais, feeling a need to reinforce my doomerism, a sick individual indeed, I am!Mossyhttp://www.gwenet.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-9477531661521320672012-11-28T18:41:49.163-05:002012-11-28T18:41:49.163-05:00I'm horrified to learn from Guy that the therm...I'm horrified to learn from Guy that the thermo bacteria that live in the bottom of the ocean won't survive the coming ecological collapse and extinction. I was counting on them to save some of our dna.catman306https://www.blogger.com/profile/04670081770711560337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-34767356620896323592012-11-28T15:11:28.522-05:002012-11-28T15:11:28.522-05:00The situation on our planet continues to get worse...The situation on our planet continues to get worse...it is an emergency truly. <br /><br />Guy is an amazing speaker, I went to listen to him a few weeks ago.<br /><br />It is time to take action against the civilization that is destroying our world.Desert Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08669842743759510104noreply@blogger.com