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On 6/18/13 4:11 PM, Eisboch wrote:


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On 6/18/13 3:14 PM, Eisboch wrote:


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On 6/18/13 1:38 PM, Eisboch wrote:


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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
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Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents
and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings
and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and
the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when
a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man
comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation.
But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the
campus of
the University of Chicago.


Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you
hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west
coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing

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I happened to stumble upon a re-run of this show the other day.
For
the gullible it was pretty convincing, especially with all the
"scientific" evidence and skeletal remains:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mermaids-real-mermaids-caught-camera-animal-planet-documentary-19286637




I suppose you don't believe in the tooth fairy or the easter bunny,
either.

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Wasamatta .... you never watched "Miracle on 34th St."


Absolutely, both the older and the more recent versions. I see no
reason
*not* to believe in Santa Claus. I like Christmas, too, to the
extent it
upholds the value of good deeds, helping others, and basic human
decency. I'm not a fan of the commercialization attached to the
observance and, of course, I really dislike the never-ending
attempts to
use it to push a religious agenda on a society that is supposed to
be
religiously neutral, but there is nothing negative about the
positive
thoughts attributed to Jesus, whether or not he said them.

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Wow. Gotta say this for you. You take every opportunity you can
get.





I try. Even though I am agnostic, I have no problems with people who
have organized or even unorganized religious beliefs, so long as they
don't try to push those beliefs onto me or our non-religious society.
I'm not an atheist, I'm just a skeptic.

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You know what? You are a nerd. A political nerd. This isn't meant
as an insult. I know lots of nerds from the technical disciplines.
In fact, I am one too. But a common issue with us nerds is that we
sometimes take things too seriously. If someone jokingly asks me why
something isn't working, I'll miss the light hearted humor and delve
into a long and protracted dissertation why it doesn't work and what's
required to make it work and why it broke in the first place. Only
after stopping to catch my breath will I notice that those around me
are either chuckling or their eyes have glazed over.