Posted on 05/13/2014 5:09:57 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday May 13, 2014
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
farceur [fahr-SUR]
-n
1. a joker; wag.
2. a writer or director of or actor in farce.
[1775–85; < French, Middle French, equivalent to farc ( er ) to joke, banter (derivative of farce farce) + -eur -eur ]
el todoterreno [toh-doh-tehr-EHN-oh]
-n
SUV
Al manejar grandes distancias en un todoterreno se gasta mucha gasolina.
Driving long distances in an SUV uses a lot of gas.
nearing single digits...
Sounds interesting.
Ah, yes-a visual of Obama on the golf course, looking up and pointing-oh, look-a UFO...
Could be, but the cub and I were talking about all the chatter in high places in the mid-late 1980’s on the same subject-maybe it is cyclical.
Unless the aliens have a warp drive, ala Star Trek only the descendants of the original explorers will get here-and after that long, will they remember what they are doing out there for real, or will it have assumed the characteristics of a myth or legend, like Atlantis or the semi-mythical Earth of Battlestar Galactica?
Battlestar Galactica is one I never got into. I think it’s what keeps me just on this side of the nerd line.
I only tiptoed the line for the Doctor(2000+, not the old ones), unless watching Lost in Space as a little kid counts, and I don’t think it was real sci-fi. I really didn’t like Firefly either and couldn’t get past the first episode.
I’ve gotten into some sci-fi just not all.
That reminds me, I need to finish Firefly.
Heretic!
I loved it-but not as much as either Star Trek series. I rather liked Firefly, too, but I’m not a nerd of any sort.
Did you like any sci-fi other than Dr. Who? I always thought Lost in Space was a comedy-and the robot was the best actor...
I know I’m a heretic, but I did not care for any of the Star Wars movies-they reminded me of the sci-fi movies I saw as a little kid.
And Star Trek began as a TV series- the Star Trek movies were all-including the newest 2-spun from TOS or TNG... I like TNG best, including the 2 new movies-Kirk and his crew were/are kick ass and take names military types, where Picard and his crew approached every situation with more sensitivity than I did at work as a case manager...
Oops-I like TOS best-not TNG...
Star Wars was overblown. The first movie was OK, an original. Good story about the good guys winning against the Evil Empire. What’s not to like?
I never watched any of the “new” Star Wars movies. From what I hear, Episode One is like watching CSPAN with a Reggae mascot.
Now Star Trek was always more cerebral.
Firefly was about rugged individuals, not wanting to be part of a central authority. Americans, in other words. Cowboys. Outlaws, but only because they had to survive.
the Gentiles were made in the image and likeness of God.
yes she does, she certainly doesn’t live by MY will...
Not everything that moves has a free will.
As much as we like to anthropomorphize our pets, they act under instinct.
They do not reason. They can be trained to behave as we wish. But they do not have the capacity to choose evil. They can not sin. They do not have free will.
but a martian alien does? really?
If it can get here, that would imply intelligence as that would not be an act of instinct but an act of will so either the alien could either be:
a) sinless
b) have free will.
I think C.S. Lewis did a series of books on this back in the day.
If they are sentient beings, yes. That’s what I said above. I would assume any race of beings capable of space travel would have the capacity to reason. And sin.
It is entirely possible that God would create a race of sinless rational beings and then have them come here to our world. But it hardly seems sporting.
My money is on any rational race being capable of choosing to sin.
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