TubeGarden wrote:

Hi RATs!

Life is splattered all about the univese.

I think I'll agree with you here.
But what we see when we see distant galaxies, which may be teeming with life
perhaps like our own milky way is the image of the distant past, since the light
has taken so
long to reach us. And what we see now may not exist, and the concept
of "now" is a surely a splattered one.

If we ask what happened before the big bang, or what immensity lies outside the
known
universe, we are in trouble with our limited ideas of space and time.

But don't you think we'd be mightily conceited if we thought
we were the only bit of life amoungst all the stars we know are out there?

Although Christ didn't say very much about time, space, or quantum theory,
religious nutters ever since Him have been trying to maintainn their control over
us
by limiting what we could believe in, eg, that the sun and all things went around
the earth, which God made. Then came the cruncher for the Church,
that really thre earth went around the sun, and then as discovery occurred
the regime of the Church waned.
I think something much bigger than ourselves, or anything we could imagine
has created in some way and resulted in existance of what we see and touch.
I also would say that whoever, whatever placed all of it at our disposal
has had a grand plan unfold over countless billions of years,
according to the laws of the physics invented to allow it to happen.

I have no problems with evolutionery theory.

I think evolution is, or has been God's grand way of creation,
and its not silly to think we evolved from apes who evolved from slime.
What's wrong with slime? People think no god would let man
evolve from slime. They say man was created in God's image.
Which man? what of sheilas? what of different races?
Why would the current form of man be how a god is constructed,
especially since he has never lived here on earth.
Perhaps on the many other planets where life teems,
or as you say is at least splattered, there are forms of intelligent slimes.
They may be a trifle touchy if we made contact and called them a lousy bunch
of slime balls, when all along they reckoned they were also made in God's image.
Whatever God is, its a big question.


We party where and when we can. Only
sullen individuals are negated

Indeed, and political parties abound, when they can, each
with their set of ideas which suits their logic,
and anyone who thinks different is a heretic.
We are trapped on our little blue ball of a planet, all having
to deal with who is in control, who often get very upset if they ain't in control.

Not too many burnings at stakes anymore, but plenty of
road deaths, with the occasional martyr bombing in Bagdad.

If any of the laws of physics don't suit you, there is not
any Godly ombudsman to register your complaints, and
alterations to the laws of physics cannot be applied retrospectively.
Personally, I'd like gravity to have less effect than it does,
so my knees and back wouldn't ache the way they do.

Anyone wanna travel to Mars with me?
Gravity is 38% less than earth,
so even the weakest could happily lug a decent tube amp around,
and your'e gonna need a heater up there anyhow.....
Making tubes up there would be easy,
there is nearly a ready made vacuum for an atmosphere.
This propels the idea that we should all wear space suits,
and get rid of all the air, then nobody would need to
have glass tubes for our amps, but then we'd all use headphones,
and unbottled 12AU7 power amps would be ample.

Patrick Turner.




Happy Ears!
Al

Alan J. Marcy
Phoenix, AZ

PWC/mystic/Earhead