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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (56457)	9/30/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The future is not predictable. We choose how to act from what we believe is probable. We need to be disinterested -- not bound to serve one group or another at the expense of what we think will occur. If Reagan had been well-informed or knew what advice was best to rely on, we would hope that he would make what would turn out to be a good policy decision. That is our belief in reason. If he knows nothing and had bad advice, it's better that he would rely on prayer -- if there's a god talking to him. Of course, through out history, most decisions of kings and presidents have apparently relied on prayer (ratherthan discussing things with wise, well-informed people) -- with pretty bad results IMO. A wonderful example is McKinley praying all night about the Philippines. He decided to to keep them. Don't know what would have happened if he'd let them be, perhaps Germany or Japan would have taken them and either whipped them into slaves or been drained by the rebellion. Who's to say. But the world, I suspect, would be very different, as it would if Kennedy had stayed out of Dallas or if I had felt better the last sixty years.