Manual tweets 12/16

[scarfman]

• RT @TheEconomist What did the makers of America believe about God and religion? econ.st/tnHJ8g
• Jefferson excised all the mysticism from the Gospels to extract the philosophy. Washington referred to God obliquely and Jesus never.
• The founding fathers were "free-thinkers". After 1776 Jefferson and Madison broke the Anglican power base that existed in Virginia.
• The last thing the founding fathers believed in (besides a common theism) was doing things because some authority did it that way.
• Barton says Jefferson's "wall of separation" between state and church is one-way. Yeah, because that's the default state of a wall.
• @jephjacques The difference is, "failed" web comics still get read and can still make a name for the artist. BOOM
• #scifichat Intro: Paul Gadzikowski, writer/cartoonist http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com
• #scifichat A1 I think, if I have a favorite ice world, it must be Delta Vega from the most recent #StarTrek movie
• #scifichat The name of the Klingon prison planet is Rura Penthe
• #scifichat I know I've read or watched story(ies) on a planet with seasons that are centuries long, and winter's coming. Don't recall what.
• #scifichat @JLichtenberg I think Pern must be what I was thinking of. Been decades since I read some of those.
• #scifichat A3: I assume air, food and shelter are a given?
• #scifichat A3. I'd bring my laptop, a portable internet hotspot, and I'd let my wife bring eight things.
• #scifichat A4. How do we know the earth didn't create us because it WANTS styrofoam and global warming? #georgecarlin
  
• #scifichat @DavidRozansky arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/aajq.htm #firefly
  
• #scifichat Must dash. Back next week - same scifi time, same scifi channel
• #scifichat @JLichtenberg The #TerraNova time travel is to a different timeline.
• #scifichat Avatar isn't a great movie, but it's an important movie
• Every time I build a buffer, eventually it dwindles away and I start to panic. Notwithstanding that I don't usually keep one.
• @feretthimself There's Prairie Dawn on Sesame Street.

Comments

[scalderwood.livejournal.com]

"The last thing the founding fathers believed in (besides a common theism) was doing things because some authority did it that way."

THIS!!!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Nicely said re: the founding fathers.

#scifichat I know I've read or watched story(ies) on a planet with seasons that are centuries long, and winter's coming. Don't recall what.

... you mean besides Martin's Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, da?

The #TerraNova time travel is to a different timeline.

That's the OFFICIAL story. There have been hints on the show that there's evidence to the contrary, but the Powers That Be are covering it up.

Avatar isn't a great movie, but it's an important movie

That's exactly what I said about Tron when the sequel was coming out, and a friend of mine was grumbling about how the original was a pretty crummy movie.