Comments on: Days of Wine and Spam http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:21:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43934 Irishman Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:13:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43934 So what is it they are asking you to actually do that is more than think postitive thoughts? The Transcendental Meditation guys at least want you to bounce on your butt. Not that I call that helpful, but it's doing <i>something</i>. So what is it they are asking you to actually do that is more than think postitive thoughts?

The Transcendental Meditation guys at least want you to bounce on your butt. Not that I call that helpful, but it’s doing something.

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43933 Irishman Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:12:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43933 So what is it they are asking you to actually do that is more than think postitive thoughts? So what is it they are asking you to actually do that is more than think postitive thoughts?

]]> By: ipgrunt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43935 ipgrunt Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:50:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43935 Phil, When one lives in Boulder, one gets used to this sort of thing. Phil,

When one lives in Boulder, one gets used to this sort of thing.

]]> By: Hazzel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43938 Hazzel Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:16:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43938 hey, I hope my mail (sent ~ a month ago) wasn't regarded as Spam or anything. I mean since you got that one mine couldn't be seen as Spam by your email service! :D I read your notes about sending you email carefully before sending it. ;) Anyways, don't we all get these stupid things? I use thunderbird and it works pretty well for clearing out the trash before I get it. hey, I hope my mail (sent ~ a month ago) wasn’t regarded as Spam or anything. I mean since you got that one mine couldn’t be seen as Spam by your email service! :D I read your notes about sending you email carefully before sending it. ;)
Anyways, don’t we all get these stupid things? I use thunderbird and it works pretty well for clearing out the trash before I get it.

]]> By: Troy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43937 Troy Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:01:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43937 I notice they have a countdown timer to the day in which they want you to do good. Hey WHY wait? Is that like I guess I'll start my diet on Monday... I notice they have a countdown timer to the day in which they want you to do good. Hey WHY wait? Is that like I guess I’ll start my diet on Monday…

]]> By: thaumaturge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43936 thaumaturge Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:05:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43936 Spam: It's like a press release without the press! Spam: It’s like a press release without the press!

]]> By: Thomas Siefert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43939 Thomas Siefert Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:24:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/29/days-of-wine-and-spam/#comment-43939 I found the website: http://www.thedaysofgood.org/TheDaysOfGood.html I only skimmed it since it seem to be a long New Age (rhymes with sewage) rambling (I do not agree with BA that it is a cut above most sewage) but stopped when I read this: "Let’s not underestimate the POWER OF THE CREATOR – SOURCE of all Creation by ascribing to him (according to our faint conception) the capability to create only one direction or way about which we think that it is the best one, the truest one, the only right one… But the best way for everybody is, in fact, just his/her own way. Certain (concrete) way or the direction is only one of many expressions of the Supreme Source!" I found the website: http://www.thedaysofgood.org/TheDaysOfGood.html

I only skimmed it since it seem to be a long New Age (rhymes with sewage) rambling (I do not agree with BA that it is a cut above most sewage) but stopped when I read this:

“Let’s not underestimate the POWER OF THE CREATOR – SOURCE of all Creation by ascribing to him (according to our faint conception) the capability to create only one direction or way about which we think that it is the best one, the truest one, the only right one… But the best way for everybody is, in fact, just his/her own way. Certain (concrete) way or the direction is only one of many expressions of the Supreme Source!”

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