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Mar. 20th, 2005
OUTSIDE of my friends list, thanks, youse guys aren't exactly a representative sample :)
I mean, seriously, it seems to me like that word is just used when an author can't think of a better way to foreshadow. So-and-so will be walking along, see a group of crows, think or comment that "A group of crows is called a murder" and then five pages later BAM, somebody's dead. Boy, didn't see that coming!
I also don't think that real people notice if they have one or two birds sitting on their rooftop. I don't think they look up at all, unless they need to have bad luck as some sort of plot device.
And the cuckoo? She may be a pretty bird who singeth as she flies. She may even bringeth us good tidings, but I strongly doubt that she really telleth us no lies. Cuckoos live on lies, that's how they raise their young! Or don't, rather.
That duck, though, is definitely somebody's mother. She told me so herself.
Edit: Here we go. Pigeons only get to go in boring words like flight, kit, or passel. Drat. BUT! Pigeons here are really rock doves! And doves get lots of cool words: pitying, prettying, piteousness. That even alliterates: a piteousness of pigeons. *grins* I like it.
Edit again: *laughs* Thrushes are mutations. Never saw a thrush that I know of....
Of course, you know most of these terms are just made up by people on the analogy of pride, school, and (of course) murder.
I mean, seriously, it seems to me like that word is just used when an author can't think of a better way to foreshadow. So-and-so will be walking along, see a group of crows, think or comment that "A group of crows is called a murder" and then five pages later BAM, somebody's dead. Boy, didn't see that coming!
I also don't think that real people notice if they have one or two birds sitting on their rooftop. I don't think they look up at all, unless they need to have bad luck as some sort of plot device.
And the cuckoo? She may be a pretty bird who singeth as she flies. She may even bringeth us good tidings, but I strongly doubt that she really telleth us no lies. Cuckoos live on lies, that's how they raise their young! Or don't, rather.
That duck, though, is definitely somebody's mother. She told me so herself.
Edit: Here we go. Pigeons only get to go in boring words like flight, kit, or passel. Drat. BUT! Pigeons here are really rock doves! And doves get lots of cool words: pitying, prettying, piteousness. That even alliterates: a piteousness of pigeons. *grins* I like it.
Edit again: *laughs* Thrushes are mutations. Never saw a thrush that I know of....
Of course, you know most of these terms are just made up by people on the analogy of pride, school, and (of course) murder.
She said that most people she knows who accept the Theory of Evolution ignore "large holes" in it. Now, that may be, and those holes may exist. However, in my experience, most "large holes" mentioned are not, actually, large holes at all - or rather, they're holes in the knowledge of the questioner.
I'm hardly a biologist. However, if you post any complaints you have with evolutionary theory, with one exception... no, two exceptions, I'll gladly start running around to see if I can find answers. Or maybe one of my other friends can answer the problem.
The two exceptions are as follows:
1. I'm not answering that damn chicken or egg question, or any transparent version of it.
2. I'm not answering any question that has to do with the creation of the universe, or the beginning of life. If you say "See, this means there must be a designer", I'll quietly sigh, because the only response to that is "Well, who designed the designer", and before you know it we're having the second-silliest flamefest in history. There might very well have been some sort of original creator(s) or designer(s). I don't know, I don't care, that's onen puzzle we're never getting to the bottom of.
I'm hardly a biologist. However, if you post any complaints you have with evolutionary theory, with one exception... no, two exceptions, I'll gladly start running around to see if I can find answers. Or maybe one of my other friends can answer the problem.
The two exceptions are as follows:
1. I'm not answering that damn chicken or egg question, or any transparent version of it.
2. I'm not answering any question that has to do with the creation of the universe, or the beginning of life. If you say "See, this means there must be a designer", I'll quietly sigh, because the only response to that is "Well, who designed the designer", and before you know it we're having the second-silliest flamefest in history. There might very well have been some sort of original creator(s) or designer(s). I don't know, I don't care, that's onen puzzle we're never getting to the bottom of.