"broger...@gmail.com" <brogers31751@gmail.com> writes:

It's been fun. Thanks a lot.

Why do you consider google groups essential to participate?

Perhaps talk.origins could become a mailing list reflected onto the
newsgroup, like for example linux.debian.user ?

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broger...@gmail.com <brogers31751@gmail.com> wrote:

All things come to an end, and I will turn into a pumpkin when GG pulls
the plug. Thanks for lots of interesting conversations. Plenty of
informative conversations with the sane, and some very entertaining ideas from the less sane - e.g. the idea that God allowed the Epistle of James
into the Bible only to serve an an example of what heresy is (Ray
Martinez), "calm, global-like flooding," (Pagano), an endless supply of
ways to hide dualist assumptions in yes or no questions about ever more bizarre robot scenarios (someone), even a guy who considers socialism to
be not an economic system in which the State owns the means of
production, but a failure to properly define subjectivity.

It's been fun. Thanks a lot.

Bill (not the refrigerant one)

To you, Daggett, Burkhard, and others getting raptured in the GG apocalypse soon:

https://youtu.be/DtoCw2iOTSc?si=sDIRhhMLcBU4EVeT

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On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:11:13 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by "broger...@gmail.com" <brogers31751@gmail.com>:

All things come to an end, and I will turn into a pumpkin when GG pulls the plug. Thanks for lots of interesting conversations. Plenty of informative conversations with the sane, and some very entertaining ideas from the less sane - e.g. the idea that

God allowed the Epistle of James into the Bible only to serve an an example of what heresy is (Ray Martinez), "calm, global-like flooding," (Pagano), an endless supply of ways to hide dualist assumptions in yes or no questions about ever more bizarre
robot scenarios (someone), even a guy who considers socialism to be not an economic system in which the State owns the means of production, but a failure to properly define subjectivity.

It's been fun. Thanks a lot.

Bill (not the refrigerant one)

Sorry to see you go; you've been a voice of sanity here.
Enjoy whatever comes next. :-)

--

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov

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