...> <snip> Simple religions no doubt go back to the stone age when some enterprising fella carved an image out of an old piece of drift wood stuck it under a tree and told everybody it would 'chase away the evil spirits'. It's that childish and banal. [Mind you, ...

... in alt.atheism <snip> Simple religions no doubt go back to the stone age when some enterprising fella carved an image out of an old piece of drift wood stuck it under a tree and told everybody it would 'chase away the evil spirits'. It's that childish and banal. [Mind you, that ...

... followers 'toe the line' Simple religions no doubt go back to the stone age when some enterprising fella carved an image out of an old piece of drift wood stuck it under a tree and told everybody it would 'chase away the evil spirits' It's that childish and banal. [Mind you, that fella ...

... the weight of the fish.. This was caught in a tenessieee lol at the spelling river. I dont like the way they mounted it.. on a piece of drift wood.. but the fish is curved towards the wall.. meaning.. the face.. and the tail are touching the wall.. and the belly is on the driftwood further out from...

...'s self. IB now gibbers for a couple of paragraphs about Hitler's secret radio waves. Before drifting back to the chemical changes that take place in the body as a result of strong emotion.... is 'active'. A simpler passive ritual that Isaac describes is to sit quietly out in the woods and concentrate on absorbing 'energy' from the nature around you. Now, this section has been greatly ...

... is engineering and materials sciences, and that makes wood a fibre-composite.  Not a man-made one, ...> A report which had SFA to do with wood. Until a certain show pony came prancing out ... live in the rarefied air of the academic woods from the real world. Airing his theoretical knowledge ... short I enjoy some of the esoteric thread drift and even learn a bit :) In Closing ...

... similar reasons, you never step into the same wood twice, and you never step into the same ecosystem twice. Yet river, wood, and ecosystem possess a definite continuity of existence;... their world, attaching short labels such as "river," "wood," "species," or "ecology" to hugely complicated processes. As... well explain why the earth's climate has drifted in and out of long Ice Ages at ...

...WHITE MAN WAS SCAVENGING IN THE WOODS , WEARING ANIMAL SKINS , AND IN SHORT...other lovers of wisdom and steadily drifted towards metaphysics that Bhagavad-Gita says...of life to achieve perfection. This drift from political philosophy to metaphysics continued... (fragrant material) and splinter of wood each time to Agni (holy ... that offer the splinter of wood only when you feel cleansed ...

...WHITE MAN WAS SCAVENGING IN THE WOODS , WEARING ANIMAL SKINS , AND IN SHORT ...other lovers of wisdom and steadily drifted towards metaphysics that Bhagavad-Gita says...of life to achieve perfection. This drift from political philosophy to metaphysics continued... (fragrant material) and splinter of wood each time to Agni (holy fire...enjoins that offer the splinter of wood only when you feel cleansed ...

... the wraiths of mist wrapping around the shore and showing more and more of the bank as we drifted along - magic! Not when I was crossing the shipping lanes one night in fog between Dublin and Holyhead. Due ... and bugs we have to watch for! I can appreciate that! The humidity in your neck of the woods can be rather unpleasant just to add to the fun that the bugs are having.