Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Leonard Blaisdell Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Fwd: stew Date: 6 May 2025 01:44:56 GMT Organization: Studio H Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <68156c85$0$3832$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <681585c5$0$4266$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <68162269$0$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <5qBRP.2$adP7.0@fx38.iad> X-Trace: individual.net 8DGkVSFLD5eklF/zQMmGFAnpXcilq/02PS4vvwoDZAbxMXfzZY Cancel-Lock: sha1:u/mTtjJdw06Ex10hR7W71WM0VRA= sha256:ld5LtXTy00eT0nxj7s8iyHsgQt/8maSsmDEplGvhd1E= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Darwin) Bytes: 1850 On 2025-05-04, Cindy Hamilton wrote: > On 2025-05-04, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >> Thank your lucky stars for how all history played out before you were >> conceived. Otherwise, two other people might, or might not, be posting >> here and now. Thanks, all of history before me! > Why would it matter? There isn't some sort of cosmic waiting > room where people are queued up to be born. No, there's just the history of humanity. Any glitch in that long chain, including a second or stroke in your conception, and you wouldn't exist. I'm not religious (and I don't do this), but I should marvel at every day that I'm alive. So should you. So should everyone. Hmmmmm, I'm thinking of starting a church. I will call it the "Church of History". You in?