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Part of this has been copied out of Cambridgebayweather's talk page.

Dude!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU --JDitto

I would like to thank you for answering my question with such impeccable timing, my fellow Canadian. I noticed that you do a lot of helping around the ref desk, and now I thank you personally for helping me (personally). Okay, my grammer needs work...

Do you get much sleep lately? I would give you a barnstar, but it seems that someone else already did. Oh well, thanks anyways. --JDitto 05:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I was just lucky in seeing it turn up in google. As for sleep, well I works shifts and can edit at work. It's a quiet job and we have lots of spare time on the night shift. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much though, I thought that thing was fact, not fable! --JDitto 06:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Hi JDitto

I'm a new Wikipedian, so I'm having some difficulty with the image tagging and other stuff. Therefore, your comment is the first positive one I've had after a continuous sequence of "where is the image source?" :p

So thanx a lot for that and going over the edits I made in the article. I hope you and everyone else find the changes in the origins of chess helpful in better understanding the great game of chess.

Best Regards, Darkness1089 22:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Ninjawolf Says "Hi"

Hi JDitto! This is Ninjawolf. I just dropped by with nothing to do... By the way thanks for the welcome.

--Ninjawolf 22:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. :)--JDitto

Re: Crazy IPs

Thanks for bringing those to my attention. Will be keeping an eye on them (a tab or two each), but feel free to let me know if I miss anything (or use WP:AIV if I'm asleep, or such). Luna Santin 08:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Ninjas Rock!

sorry that has nothing to do with what I want to say i just think ur awsome --Ninjawolf 02:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Kumusta po!

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You don't have to say sorry to me,you didn't know.Sorry,I just rush too much that I forget to log in.By the way I deleted our old conversation(s)Mooncrest 20:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Well,it looks like you told me in time about the IP address and for that I give you my thanks.I hope you didn't mind that I deleted our old conversations.Mooncrest 12:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Here are 2 less "bloody" manga that I know of:

• Cardcaptors-
• Fruits Basket

Mooncrest 12:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Well,when I was looking in fruits Basket,you were looking for a manga for your sister(I think) in the talk page so I just named these.Cardcaptors is a little too girly in my opinion so I really think that you should pick Fruits Basket for your sis.As for the wiki break I am going to hav one in about 2 days. Mooncrest 19:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I will try to watch the anime if I can,have you heared of Full Metal Panic? I think Trigun pretty funny.Mooncrest 19:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey,I'm back from my break but I think I have a cold.Please leave me a new message.Thanks for your kindness,undertanding and help.Mooncrest 00:38, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thanks very much!

Thank you! I'll watch that page, I first saw that page in the recent changes. --Hasek is the best 03:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Shaq's Big Challenge

I actually found out about it from a message board that I go too. But I reported them to the board admin, dunno if they got warned though. Puppet125 16:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Noah's ark

Thank you! --Dweller 07:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Formal Invitation

Hello JDitto! It's Ninjawolf, I was wondering if you are a Naruto fan. If you are I'm giving you a formal invitation to my Nartuo site. It's: http://villagehiddenintheclouds.zoomshare.com/0.html --Ninjawolf 15:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

kumusta again O_o

Hello Jditto about what you said on the fruits basket talk page [[1]] the Fruits Basket manga is Shojo which means it's for girls so if you ever want to buy onw for your sis look for that particular word. For boys it's shonen. Later thenMooncrest 00:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for the kindness you give to others and myself. Mooncrest 13:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

It's me again

Your welcome.Wow we have so much in common.That's like the second manga that I read."Glow(chew) Ball(chew) warning" XD.Mooncrest 12:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I watched the episodes on veoh and that's why I think it's funny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by mooncrest (talk • contribs)

Mimicry and evolution

For the whole unabridged discussion, click here.

Personally I find it rather amusing that one would assume that an intelligent creator would create intentionally deceptive animals, just as I find it amusing that an intelligent creator would create, say, parasites. I find the "red in tooth and claw" model of evolution to be much more compelling in such instances — all it requires is that there be a little dynamism in the system and it will, on its own, end up with all sorts of unintuitive competitive strategies like mimicy, parasitism, and deception (and, on the more positive side, cooperation and gregariousness, among other things).

But I am fine with acknowledging that how one would interpret that sort of thing depends largely on one's starting point of view, in this case anyway (there are simply many assertions made by creationists and intelligent design advocates which are factually and logically incorrect, and that is not a matter of point of view, in my view). Darwin would see it as a marvelous version of evolution in act; Asa Gray would see it as a beautiful God-made language of life (that still played out in an evolutionary context, mind you). (I am assuming you are not asking me what the evolutionary interpretation of mimicry would be. If you are, the article on mimicry gives a fairly cogent set of interpretations of how different forms of mimicry are thought to potentially evolve.)

But still — why make ticks? Why make wasps that paralyze prey and have their larvae feast on it while it still lives? Why not make a more peaceful world? Either God loves violence, or the behavior of nature isn't how He expresses himself, in my view. But again, that's just one point of view — I don't intend it to be a rigorous argument, it is just an explanation of why I find that particular interpretation problematic. The evolutionary one, while perhaps troubling in its implications, carries no such logical problems in it for me — nasty things happen because they are, in some short or long term way, advantageous to the one being nasty. Once the system gets going (say God pushed it into being, if you want — it makes no difference), it operates on its own accord, according to the raw laws of nature. Makes a lot more sense to me than an interventionist deity who creates equal parts ugly with the beauty. --24.147.86.187 22:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

All I mean by "very easy to evolve" is "it does not take much of an intellectual leap of faith to see how that sort of property would evolve, if you saw natural selection as plausible." And free will works great as an explanation when you are talking about humans and other rational agents — I don't see how the tick has any free will. There is no non-violent option for the tick. It can't exactly decide to "change its lifestyle." It is what it is "programmed" to do. There's no plausible way that ticks in the days before The Fall would have been dining on anything else. The question is, who programmed it to be like that? A God that enjoys ticks, or a Nature that rewards those that find creative ways to survive? Even if ticks emerged after The Fall — which would contradict any literal reading of the Bible that I am aware of — it would still have been God that created them and made them bloodthirsty—gave them the hooks, the digestive systems that can proceed only blood, gave them the insticts which allows them to use their highly-specialized bodies to do a highly-specialized task. Man doesn't know how to do that, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I think if you find the Genesis story to be less of an intellectual leap than naturalism, we're probably not going to have very much to share with one another—to me the Genesis story has all of the hallmarks of a classic origin myth. Which doesn't mean it can't be useful — as a close friend of mine, a priest, has said, you don't have to believe the myth is true to live out its implications; Aesop's fables don't have be literal representations of the past in order to give important insights into what sorts of beings we are. I don't believe that the world was created in the way it describes it in Genesis, and I don't believe it was created in the way it is described in countless other myths, but that doesn't mean it lacks all value, of course.

But I do find it amusing that you use an evolutionary argument to try and support the idea of a benevolent tick or a benevolent parasitic wasp. I find it a little implausible—it seems like a pretty ad hoc way to deal with the problem of non-human "evil". I should probably note don't think ticks are "evil" in a real sense — they do what they have evolved to do. Their actions only become a moral issue, in my mind, if you try to explain them as reflections of the eye of an intervening God. If you push God's role up to that of a steward, though, that would remove the problem, but it would also require a self-consciously interpretive reading of the Bible. The other way out is, of course, to say that it is some extremely subtle part of God's plan, one that we can't possibly fathom, but I find that a little less intellectually honest than just proclaiming, "I DON'T KNOW!" and giving up on it. Which I think is honestly an acceptable answer, one that applies to many "scientific" questions as well. --24.147.86.187 05:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for the kind gift in re our shared um, interest in the origin of chess. We are also indebted to User:Quale for finally swatting down that nonsense. Now it's on to Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper) and Abbie Burgess (ditto). J S Ayer 18:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

'allo

Hey, how's a goin'. Having a good day?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjawolf (talk • contribs) 01:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

^_^

I'm back!!!!Mooncrest 15:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi! --JDitto 00:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

How's wiki? Is there more vadalism?Mooncrest 13:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I see, I'm going to edit some articles then I am going to revert vadalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mooncrest (talk • contribs) 18:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey do you want a ani Vandal cop userbox?Mooncrest (talk) 13:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

^_^

		Zen Garden Award for Infinite Patience
		Keep up the hard work! Mooncrest (talk) 00:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Extremely Late Answer

In 2007 you asked about putting the monster hotdog on Hoops and Yoyo I added it and it is succesful!!! Anfish (talk) 22:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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