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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Neocon who wrote (11521)4/16/2001 4:06:27 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
Witness this, X said "Tell me about your truth of objective reality. How have you come to know this truth? Surely not through your subjective senses."

Did you see the Miracle Worker? Do you remember when Anne Sullivan tried to get Helen Keller to understand through her subjective senses that water meant something. Through the use of her subjective senses she got through to a deaf and blind child by writing over and over in her hand W A T E R and providing the sensation of running water. Once she grasped that one concept she could learn anything and the universe belonged to her. What if Anne had interchanged running water, with cats, socks and eggs? According to X we can't trust our subjective senses.

Some might say the real answer would be that today with our advanced technology we could simply abort Helen and chop her up for stem cell research. In that case we would have lost an inspiring and gallant story. Sad the ones least able to teach children are doing just that.
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