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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (7821)	3/7/2001 1:29:54 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I explicitly said there was uncertainty. For the rest, I have tried to explain my thinking on this, but it seems to have made no impression, so I am not sure if it is worthwhile to either of us to keep on......

To: Solon who wrote (7821)	3/7/2001 1:40:00 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Meaning only relates to the illogical desire to reach a certainty on the unpredictable future of individual existence--vis-a-vis, whether one receives closure, or whether one is compelled to endure endless agony (or any other condition of eternity that may be imagined by those that ground their existence in the future rather than the now)--in the unlikely circumstance of an individual limiting the appreciation and the inclusiveness of their OWN personal meaning, by the unrealistic rider that they will defy what is known...in deference to the dubious self-glory of what is not. I found Bokonon's related musings more accessible. Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.