tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post2817424582854078435..comments2023-03-28T08:54:47.015-05:00Comments on Patient Anonymous: Just Another Head Case...: Let the Gastro Gauntlet Begin...Happy Hanukkah!Patient Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443612027249870621noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-69319407722550586602006-12-22T12:40:00.000-05:002006-12-22T12:40:00.000-05:00Thanks, drshroom, that sounds interesting...and ta...Thanks, drshroom, that sounds interesting...and tangets are <i>always</i> welcome here *wink*Patient Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443612027249870621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-44056619100146258912006-12-21T19:56:00.000-05:002006-12-21T19:56:00.000-05:00Tangentially... if you've read either 'On the orig...Tangentially... if you've read either 'On the origin of species', or 'Voyage of the Beagle,' may I recommend 'This thing of darkness' , by Harry Thompson, an intersting imagination of Darwin and Fitzroy's stormy relationship on the BeagleAlex Stokerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645998228285420107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-3106417220062610682006-12-19T17:17:00.000-05:002006-12-19T17:17:00.000-05:00Hey Sis, I still can't believe that you can't log ...Hey Sis, I still can't believe that you can't log in here.<br /><br />I am so sorry to hear about the death of your friend. Wow. <br /><br />Well send you an email.<br /><br />No, did not read the other book...gee, it was so long ago...I was just a little kid when I read "Origin"...I mean, YOUNG. I was reading Shakespeare and Psychology texts before becoming a teenager and going to high school...is that your A/O levels in the UK?Patient Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443612027249870621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-78094481060176808272006-12-19T16:49:00.000-05:002006-12-19T16:49:00.000-05:00Hey PA, thanks for replying. Am feeling 'kaka' (tr...Hey PA, thanks for replying. Am feeling 'kaka' (translation available in one of my recent blogs :)) tonight and need all the friend I have. One of my closest relatives(well friend, but always very close and served a role as a relative) has just died. Amazing just how quickly your appetite vanishes and yor quest for mind-numbing alternatives increases. OI should know better, but I am fallible. <br />Interesting how books cause differnet effects in different people. I loved the book, but it just put me in a tail-spin. All the things that I had a remote belief in, turned out to be false because I could see the logic and science behind Darwin's hypotheses.<br />Did you ever read "Voyage of the Beagle", by him, seeing as you read "Origin of the species". ?<br /><br />Regards, SisiphusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-7205651951238046652006-12-19T12:36:00.000-05:002006-12-19T12:36:00.000-05:00Hi sis: Good to see you! Thanks for the comment. ...<b>Hi sis:</b> Good to see you! Thanks for the comment. I'm not surprised by anything that you say *grin*...well, some of it at least! I'm sorry you lost you Daddy in your youth. That must have been difficult.<br /><br />Darwin didn't make me depressed, ironically(?)--it made me <i>excited</i> haha! It also made me really want to see the Galapagos Islands... I think my cousin (the somewhat insensitive ER doc) went there on her honeymoon(?)...grrr. Ah well, life's too short to be a jealous bitch. Cynicism is fine, envy is not.<br /><br />Interesting story about Hugh and "Borat." Maybe Hugh should have switched into "House" and somehow found a cane and started beating said assailant with it while simultaneously diagnosing him with some rare disorder of something or other? And then dragged him off to a psych ward. Okay, maybe not funny but I'm nuts so I can make "crazy jokes." It's called "in-group exclusion."<br /><br />Yes, too bad we're not closer. Would LOVE to get together for an evening of witty banter and (pseudo)intellectual diatribe.<br /><br /><b>maureen:</b> Thanks for visiting! Yes, my sister has some very interesting books and I do find the JW faith to take an interesting approach to Christianity. I like the fact that they are open to discussion and interpretation and at least in the talks that I have had with my sister, a lot of things haven't gotten so bent out of shape as far as the Bible goes.Patient Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443612027249870621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-18479601994767084212006-12-19T11:38:00.000-05:002006-12-19T11:38:00.000-05:00I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and my friends tha...I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and my friends that aren't, are always somewhat envious of me at holidays, or birthdays that are costing them a small fortune. We Witnesses have a book called "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" that is very good. Maybe you can obtain a copy from your sister and simplify your future.maureen123@cox.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581353334098717315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-30531762746035077072006-12-19T06:11:00.000-05:002006-12-19T06:11:00.000-05:00Hi there PA! I hope that this comment isn't eaten ...Hi there PA! I hope that this comment isn't eaten like the other one I sent to you. I'm starting to get quite paranoid actually :) about the fact that so many of my comments 'appear' to be eaten! <br />First, I'll try again, Happy Hannukah. Say Happy Birthday to your partner too, from me. I don't know when her birthday falls, but you hint that its around now, so just thought I'd add my tuppence worth. <br />Me too, me too, me too. I was brought up with a preacher who installed Christianity in me, then I wondered why my life was so unprotected by my God that I respected, and began to wonder. After my father had died,and in my teens, I read Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin and boy oh boy, that just kicked me into my first major depression. Then I became an aetheist. I too believe in live and let live. I admire those who have a faith to follow actually, because I know that I cannot. I'm generalising here, but so long as those who hold their faith do not dogmatically tell me that I should believe and as long as they don't start wars because of intolerance of other faiths, or think that theirs is the only true faith, then I don't have a problem with it.<br />We saw Borat a while back. I heard that Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up in the company of Hugh Laurie, when they were walking to a night club in the US and Sacha couldn't resist playing his Borat chracter telling a passing stranger that he "..like(d) your clothings, could I please have them?..". The stranger didn't recognise him, couldn't see that Sacha was behaving in a jocular manner, and thought that he was being mugged. So the stranger punched him and he was in the stages of being beaten up, when wonderful Hugh managed to pull the stranger off him. Geez, some people eh?<br />Golly, this is a long comment. There's a lot in your post that I'd like to talk more about, I think there is potential for at least an evening chatting about some of the things you say!<br />But, you do have an interesting life and experiences, so even if Blogger won't let me through, I'll still be reading your posts.<br /><br />Regards,<br />SisiphusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-53507672250105570542006-12-18T16:43:00.000-05:002006-12-18T16:43:00.000-05:00Yeah, the KISS rule? I know...I often wonder wheth...Yeah, the KISS rule? I know...I often wonder whether in our paving the way to inclusiveness, we've let the pendulum swing too far in terms of political correctness.<br /><br />Or maybe I'm just getting too damn tengential (and complicated) again...<br /><br />*wink*Patient Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443612027249870621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220384822616348160.post-46994681269681750462006-12-18T16:04:00.000-05:002006-12-18T16:04:00.000-05:00How about just Have a Nice Day! :)How about just Have a Nice Day! :)Dr. Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05207266669522973903noreply@blogger.com