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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (740)3/2/2002 9:13:41 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
sit with a dog on your lap and ask how something like that ever came to be

Yes, indeed, life is sweet. You feel it. I feel it. It's wonderful.

because no one's running things and its all chance and accidents and madness .... or not.


Consider how we compute probabilities. What is the probability that the dice will come up seven? If they come up seven, is it because there was some intelligence making it happen? What is the probability of a six rather than a seven? What is the probability of the dice coming up a number? Well, it's 100 percent. The chances of a six or a seven are less than 100 percent.

Think of us, humans, as seven. Had things played out differently, the top dog on the planet could have been the six. We don't have a clue what that six might have been like. It might be green with six arms and be sitting here right now on the internet pondering how sweet life is when you're green and have chickens on your lap, assuming you even have a lap. And arguing about whether there's a deity in whose image and likeness they were created.

The winners get to write the history. And conceptualize the science. And develop the philosophy. If you're a seven, it's easy to think that the world was designed to produce sevens. But if you're a six, in a six world, with six science and six philosophy and a six deity...

The probability of rolling a seven is less than the probability of rolling a number.

Karen
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