Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-B “Your job offer: Pay? How Much and When?
Chapter 2 -B Your Job Offer: PAY? HOW MUCH and WHEN? (Will you be an employee or a sub-contractor?) There are two different pay structures: 1) straight salary, and 2) pay per tonnage caught. Or a combination of both. 1) Straight salary is exactly that: $3,500 per month. Or $7,000 per month. If the ship…
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New Website – perhaps
Monday, July 27, 2009 Hi y’all, Two things for you to ponder. 1) We’re looking at maybe opening a second website, and we’re open to suggestions, input and feedback. What we have in mind is a separate website that would deal with the technical articles related to helicopter pilot flying technique. It would use the…
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moggy’s glitch
This is a test to see if my post shows up. We are testing to look for moggy’s software glitch And while we’re at it, how do you like this bit of poetry? Ahhhhh,mmmmmmmm
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Comment on Nicole Hellene’s “On being an angry Atheist “
Comment on Nicole Hellene’s “On being an angry Atheist “ “Praise ” by jynmeyer (It seems that the size of any ‘comment’ is limited, and the software wouldn’t allow my entry. I’m therefore just posting it in this format!) Quote from Alister Flik on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 19:05:07 I honestly don’t see anything…
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On Religion and Pascal’s Wager
Pascal’s Wager or Pascal’s Gambit Pascal’s Wager was a suggestion posed by 17th Century French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason or logic a person should “wager ” as though God exists, because by so living, one has everything to gain, and nothing to…
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My Tuna Fishing Experience, Chapter I
I share your awe of the behavior of tuna. Others look at me like I’m nuts when I get totally stoked at spying a breezer or foamer or the action of a wide open bite when bait fishing.The fish go crazy gobbling the chum.It is a lot like throwing corn to a bunch of chickens.As…
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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-A Landing Video discussions
Moggy’s Tuna Manual Ch.3-A Landing Video discussions There are some great tuna helicopter videos around, and I’m hoping people will send me many more links and photos, so I can include them here. For the purpose of discussion, a few things: 1) remember that the video often doesn’t tell us the whole story about the…
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On Being an Angry Atheist
It’s tough being an Atheist in God’s Country. I was watching a televangelist program today, something about Jesus getting in a boat and talking to a storm. “Jesus TALKS to the storm inside us! He got in the boat, and he SPOKE to that storm.” Damn. I want to be worshiped for talking to clouds.…
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Flying Exercise 3
The Dragon spread his serrated wings and roared a challenge at the sky from his perch on the Bastille pinnacle. He leapt up and swooped down over the castle wall with his wings spread to catch the gust, then glided back up on a jetstream. He arced around a tower and glided in low, then…
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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-B “Wind, waves, and wild decks “
Landing on the Chi Tai 866, 30th January 1998 PART 3 “Moggy’s Tuna Manual ” “Handling your helicopter “ Chapter 3-B Wind, waves, and wild decks Few things can compare with this crazy dare; if you crave the ultimate trip go land, my friend, on a ship, on a wild and stormy deck rolling around…
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