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Magilum and Hambydammit [Trollville]

Posted on: August 8, 2008 - 8:01pm

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Magilum and Hambydammit [Trollville]

Thanks for your help. I really didn't know what happened to it. I wanted to reply back you guys to express my gratitude for the help, but it wouldn't let me. Thanks again. Have a great day.

Posted on: August 8, 2008 - 8:24pm #1

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No problem, man. I was

No problem, man. I was getting a little pissed that you were posting so many times about the same thing. I appreciate you taking the time to say thanks for the answers.

The reason you couldn't post in those threads was that they were locked. Basically, theist, this question has been done to death. Everything that rook could possibly say about his research, his methods, his credentials, his endorsements by scholars, and his credibility has been said -- at least ten times each. It's a non-issue. If you have a problem with autodidacts, I'd suggest that you take a look at this list of people without degrees in their fields...

"Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality." – Huston Smith [1]
"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." – Joseph Campbell
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith said of the Matrix directors: "The Wachowski Brothers are very unique [sic]. They are probably– Larry and Andy are probably two of the smartest people I know. Larry reads everything. He reads everything. I mean, everything, you know what I mean. One thing I learned through Larry, through Andy also, is that life is about research. Larry, he's constantly researching. And he's constantly reading and that's one thing that I've taken away from this project, that life is about research."
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