Been reading the posts...but not much for me to comment on. So I'll make up something.

I have been using my home computer to "fold proteins". So when I can find out about proteins.. I read up on it. BTW if you want to put your PC to work:

http://folding.stanford.edu/

SO I was watching COSMOS and a scientists suggests that proteins are not like tiny machines that replicate "perfectly". Instead there is a built randomness to their work. His theory is that by introducing randomness, they insure the survivabilty of the overall "structure/cell/animal" because no one attacker (virus) can wipe them all out because they are DIFFERENT.

When yall talk about Repub and Dems.. and idealogy and such .. remember that some of us dont fit.. we ascribe to a DIFFERENT point of view. lets take abortion

Conservative ( Rep) view its bad, dont kill babies: we need a law

Liberal( Dem) a woman has a right to her body: we have a law

Libertarian: regardless of it being right or wrong.. the question is: should the federal Government be making a law? OR is the power to make that law lie with the states.. closer to the people. Then we could have some with one law and others with another. Regardless the organism (the country) is stronger for the DIFFERENCE.

I am wearing my fire resistance underwear today.  

I mean, really ..... why screw around with it by half measures?

Just go start yourself an oil war.

Yes differences make us stronger. This is why the Christian church for example has so many different denominations. I say "denominational differences are the defenders of the truth". Collectively, denominations have all the truth spread between. No one denomination should dominate the others. If that happened,  truth would get lost like it did when Roman Catholics dominated the world. In the western world anyway.

The analogy to politics is the same. Conservatives and liberals have the truth spread between. As a conservative I am strongly against liberal ideology however, I'm smart enough to know that I don't know everything. (insert Donald Rumsfeld's famous saying here). The constant back-and-forth fight between conservative and liberal ideology is what keeps our nation together.  Conservatives need liberals just the same as liberals need conservatives.

What should happen, but doesn't, is individual points of differences should be debated thoroughly and completely. Abortion is a perfect example. Liberals lose if abortion is the debatef on fact, scientifically you might say. So they created the phrases pro-choice, war on women, reproductive rights etc.  this keeps the discussion away from human life.  I'm sure a liberal could point out a conservative point of view where we try to change the language to avoid the real topic at hand.

Good post Pine.

Pine wrote on 06/10/14 at 08:51:53:


When it's the size of a match box... do you need to fold it?

Folding screens?  How about rolling?

WebsterMark wrote on 06/10/14 at 10:30:43:


Sorry, Webstermark, I fail to understand.

The Christian Church has three major Confessions, that is:
- Roman Catholic,
- Orthodox (national Churches)
- Anglican/Episcopal + Lutheran.

The three above mentioned are "Confessions" because they have and enforce a Priestly Class and Priestly Education is c/o Seminaries.

Enter the Protestant Denominations: in some you need a degree in philosophy, in others all you need is "a Vocation", i.e. a "calling".
Sorry, it's not enough. Good intentions and 8th grade education does not make one a Preacher.

The Good Lord has stopped sending the Holy Spirit to little sheperd boys over well 2000 years ago, and until proven otherwise,
just as you need to attend Law School or School of Medicine to become a Lawyer or a Doctor...
there is the clear  requirement for a Seminary to educate your Priestly class.

Else, you run the risk of finding yourself in the hands of a spekeasy spin doctor running his church in a garage...

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Which, incidentally, is using a Masonic symbol illegally... Masonic Knights Templars, equivalent to the 30-32nd Degree Scottish Masons

You can't improvise your own God, nor your own Church.

Pesci, it was only after Jesus died that the Holy Spirit was loosed to "every man". & No, one need not be taught how to preach, If teaching created good preachers, the world would be a far better place. MEN are teaching men,, & who is to say those teachers are "Right", in the spiritual sense? For example, our schools are filled with teachers who have been taught to teach. Note the result,,

Those fireproof drawers, are they the ones with the cute little flap???