Good Heavens!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Let me get this straight. We have someone who may (or may not) have had a spiritual experience and then some are calling them a fraud and or money hungry?

In the halls of the 12 steps, there are many who claim to have had a spiritual experience (I have not had one, but am open to having one) and I do not doubt them nor their interpretation of what took place. Not having read this doctors account of what happened to him, I neither doubt nor endorse what took place. Neither can anyone else as they were not there nor did they experience what he experienced and cannot interpret what he experienced as only he can interpret those experiences.
Got it?

[rubato]

Slower than one would ever think possible. (Guin excepted)

There you go.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

Slower than one would ever think possible.

Yes rube, we all know that, but hey, you're family....

What can we do?

[Sean]

Slower than one would ever think possible. (Guin excepted)

There you go.

yrs,
rubato

Oh your 'joke' was noted Rube. I personally thought it

Not funny, and unintelligent.

[Lord Jim]

Not funny, and unintelligent.

I believe rube got that line from the caption beneath his High School Yearbook picture....

[MajGenl.Meade]

...but you have to admire the comma placement.

[Sean]

Indeed. Although we're probably too stupid to recognise radical, new wave punctuation.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well if it had no comma then I of course would jump all over it and say "Not funny and unintelligent" can break down to mean (a) not funny plus (b) not unintelligent, which of course means intelligent. In order to avoid the comma usage, one would need to say:

"Your comment is neither funny nor intelligent" (my preference). Or "Your comment is both not funny and not intelligent" or if one insists upon the negative variant of intelligent "Your comment is not funny and is unintelligent".

The negative "un" prefix takes a positive verb prefix.

So all in all I think the comma served to shorthand the sentence correctly. It being noted that placing a comma before the 'and' is acceptable in most airports. The client may proceed to the departure gate in a state of justified rectitude*.

Meade

*stick up ass

[oldr_n_wsr]

*stick up ass

I think you need a space after that *

[Gob]

Though the fact that the retard posted; "Not funny, and unintelligent," immediately after one of his own posts, was so fucking hysterical I almost shat.

[Lord Jim]

stick up ass

That reads like an instruction of some sort....

Like you're telling someone to elevate their fanny.....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Hmm. It may have been more helpful for desperate seekers of non-existent difficulty had I placed the ubiquitous and quite overworked "i.e.," before the 'stick up ass'. But I did not so, id est your tough luck

[Lord Jim]

desperate seekers of non-existent difficulty

I thought you were the president of that club Gen'l....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Founder, dear boy, founder.

[Guinevere]

Go to law school, Meade

[Sean]

Now that comma makes your post look like a 'to do' list Guin...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Go to law school, Meade

I took a career aptitude test many decades ago. The results indicated that I should do something in the fields of either journalism, religion or the law. Naturally I did none of the above until very recently. Since it seemed to me that journalism and the law are already sufficiently full of crap, I gravitated toward religion where I've done my best to level the field.

Meade

[oldr_n_wsr]

Good for the soil that crap fertilizer.