Lou FCD
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Surprise! Jehu the Yahoo continues to lie, most probably because he's a fucking liar.
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Jehu
10/20/2009
11:01 am
Let us not forget that there was no common ancestor. As I have pointed out numerous times, the leading researchers on the phylogenetics of single cell organisms such as Woese and Doolittle have come to the conclusion that there was no common ancestor to life. |
Someone with a sock might want to remind the little fucking liar that I personally emailed Doolittle about this, and Doolittle's swift reply amounted to 'Jehu is full of shit' (though Doolittle was somewhat more polite in his dismissal of Jehu's dishonesty*). Jehu has been informed of this, and should stop lying about it, so he doesn't wind up in the same boat as Floyd Lee (that would be the boat over the River Acheron).
*ETA: Jehu's is the tried-and-true lie by quotemine. The short version of Doolittle's contention is not (as Jehu would portray it) that there "is no common ancestor" (and therefore no common ancestry), but rather was beautifully mentioned by a scientist of some note a few years back when he said,
| Quote | | There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. |
**From the photographer, for those whose reading of Divine Comedy may be a distant memory:
| Quote | Greek Mythology talks of five rivers separating the land of the living and the dead. Phelegeton was one of them - The River of Fire. It burned but did not consume any fuel. (People have always wished for things which come without cost! But of course that it happened only in hell is what we should note)
The other rivers are hate (Styx), forgetfulness (Lethe), woeful (Acheron) and wailing (Cocytus). Charon the ferryman helped one cross the river and one paid him with a coin people left in the mouth of the dead. (Wages are that bad anywhere) Everyone drank from Lethe forgetting everything (thankfully) and finally the dead souls come face-to-face with Cerberus, the two-headed dog. One just threw the honeycake Greeks used to leave in the mouth along with the coin and quieten Cerberus down, (Burglers have not forgotten this tip till today)
This very same river figures in Dante's Divine Comedy too which relishes describing the gory details of what dead souls go through. Phlegeton is in the outer ring of Circle 7 specially reserved for those violent against others. Mind you, worse fate awaited those violent against themselves or God in the middle ring and the inner ring.
As with all the good stories and clever thrillers, Greek Myths also describe ways and means of getting through all these. But the tricks are reserved for Heroes. Say like hercules who went inside and brought Cerberus out for some fresh air. Some villains too were equally smart as Sisyphus who cheated Death.
Fine, what is this photograph? Obviously, it is not Hades because photography is strictly verboten there. |
Edited by Lou FCD on Oct. 25 2009,12:57
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