RE: I miss you

It’s very nice that you have found resources like Google to assist in what is otherwise known as education and practice.  My mother would be aghast at the novelty of shortcuts available to students today!  J.  Glad to see you’re spending time with Hailey and teaching her some additional languages, you may want to consider Mandarin if things continue as they are it could be very useful.

 

As to the UFO’s I have come to the belief that humans in general make a decision as to what they believe in, then they find the evidence to back up their belief system, not the other way around.  In some rare instances people will change their belief because of a new set of values, but I hold that the above is still true; they change their belief and then seek out facts to support the emotion of the change.  I don’t believe there’s much difference of scientists, nor priests, it’s simply a belief that they then backed up by a series of facts that they chose to support their belief system. 

 

Jerry Dale is an effective example, through years of study to support a belief system that maybe he had never fully bought into he then postulated a new belief system and sought out evidence to support it most likely not revealing the change in the belief until he could reveal his set of evidence that supports it.  The evidence as he presents it doesn’t change any other’s belief except those that have already fundamentally adopted a similar belief system and are still searching out evidence to support it.

 

Ben Franklin said it best “The primary difference between Animals and Humans is Humans have the ability to rationalize ANYTHING.”  Believe what you wish, for you will find plenty of evidence to support it and convince yourself of its truth.

 

So we can choose to believe that UFOs are appearing over Catalina Island and are rising out of the ocean, or we can believe the physics that they teach in college preventing such an occurrence, it’s neither here nor there.   We cannot do the tests ourselves or quantify the math down to the singularly most basic principal.  We have to take it all on faith, leaving us only to deem that what we believe is true and ultimately there is no truth, just belief.

 

From: rae [mailto:nu.advnturs@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 7:37 PM
To: Tim@theehrlichs.net
Subject: Re: I miss you

 

Hola, Tim,

 

Asi pues, usted desea practicar su espanol?  Bueno para las dos. Gracias Google, is posible.  Algo que quieres hacer con Hailey para ayudarle un poco de espanol.  He impreso unas cuantas reglas sencillas frases que se utilizan para comunicar sus deseos.  Now I'll write in English.  No sense overdoing it.  Anyway, as to  my comments re: the ufo's, I have reservations about some of what is presented as fact on the History Channel, but if you see any, let me know.  Take care.  Love, Mom. 

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tim@theehrlichs.net <tim@theehrlichs.net> wrote:

Hi Mom sorry I missed your call. I have gotten away from work for the first time in a month and to the boat first time in 2 months. We have spent th weekend sailing and hanging out on the boat.

Today Valerie (yes Dora) and her friend.  Also Danny Susan kerstyan also joined us.

We sailed all day it got a little cool so we came back to the dock and we r now cooking dinner on the boat.

Luv ya

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On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:48 PM, rae <nu.advnturs@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Tim,

Just wanted to talk to you.  Miss you.  Maybe Jacob will talk too?  We are getting ready for a garage sale about mid-june.  While going through things under the house, we found your old baseball glove, baby rattle and baby dish.  They will be kept for you along with some other baby and childhood things.  It always makes me sad to go through those things.  I can't help but miss my babies.  Those were some of my happiest times, when you two were little and growing up.  Mothers are very sentimental about such things.

Anyway,  I am looking forward to having a  colonoscopy (not) on Wednesday.  The most fun is drinking the prep.  These kind of tests are recommended for people between 50 to 60.  You have a while yet.  Enjoy those years while you can.  One day the scope cometh.

                                                                                                                Mom.