runner,

Will this suffice?

Straight from Georgie Bush's mouth - "God told me to...(do it)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa

Poirot,

I lived in Thurlestone in Devon for a while. One pub, one general store/post office in the one main street, and a sleepy little village. It had an idyllic lifestyle. Everyone knew everyone else, and sentences ended mostly with 'm'dear'.
The barter system was as much used as money. Entertainment was mostly skittles and darts at the pub. Twice a week the fish delivery man came with the local catch. As he raised chickens, we could buy fresh eggs from him, and the occasional free range chicken too.

I imagine Tom [gotta read that book] lives in a similar small community, and it really is a simple but fulfilling lifestyle. And they walk!
It's amazing how they think nothing of walking quite a few miles to get from A to B - distances for which we would automatically use a car.

It's too long a story for here, but the most fun time in our lives was when we lived a similar lifestyle. To have a flock of 30 geese come running when we called was a thrill. Our chickens were our little pets,our ducks were escape artists, and our turkeys never got fat enough to eat. Yes, it's a great way to live. When we were eating prawns from the river, or marron from the dam, we used to joke and say " I wonder how much better the rich folk have it. How can they beat this?"

The country lifestyle beats ours hands down, and it was with great regret that circumstances beyond our control forced us back to the city life.

>>Facial features answer pretty much every question you could ask and takes 10 seconds.
Not approved? Sorry. Wah-wah-wah-waah. Next!<<

People used to believe that you could read a person's character by measuring their skull. It was called phrenology and it was a complete load of nonsense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

Your hypothesis that you can read a person's character by measuring their facial features - which are largely determined by their skull - seems remarkably similar to the long-debunked beliefs of the phrenologists.

Have you any more evidence than they did that a person's facial features are reliable indicator of character?

... And I've just discovered that there is word which describes exactly what you're talking about: physiognomy.

Physiognomy: the art of judging human character from facial features.

Note how it says 'art' and not 'science'. Until you get some hard data to back up your physiognomical hypotheses I don't think you'll have much luck getting your proposal off the ground.

Cheers,

Tony

I know that, Poirot.

That Tom was only on about creating your own life and escaping the rat race which I'm all for.

Gee, girl, I'm not one dimensional. You don't need to tell me what the book was about. I'm a realist - different to you. I like having my head in the clouds, but with my feet firmly on the ground. I use to create art once and played music. One day I will do it again. But the old work slave master has been dragging me down for quite some time.

By the way, that Sorta Dunno Nothing by Peter Denahy was a real beaut.

Poirot

and who was it that told Hitchens since he never listened to God while he was alive?

Thanks Constance, I live in a sleepy little village of no more than 100.
Judging on Poirot and Csteele views supported by Lexi I have applied for the position of village idiot.
The signs mentioned earlier the dead meat quotes, the FGM charges Banjo holds hope for,I think have been dropped.
The glares as I walked in Granville, the threats when it was Auburn.
I cannot ignore the whole western worlds troubles with this religion.
Pakistan,remember the man flogging a burning car?
Is that not proof we deal with SOME who are less than bright.
Two, no three questions ar constantly ignored here.
csteele took to me as an unknown poster, I responded with my name he/she has not.
IF no God exists why must we bend to this one and no other.
Why have we by passed the very small insults by a very few in the cartoons and that film but the world wide rampage including deaths.
Be ready for the next exhibition of madness and hate is just around the corner.
Loved the every thing is Beautiful thing !
Once saw a construction crew whispering the word behind a boss who was unaware.
My job was not not laugh,Suits here