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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (22472)	3/13/2001 12:48:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

<Metaphysical Certitude.>> I know in my sad heart that you are right. <SP's "big Big BIGGEST anathema". > We are dealing with an entanglement of religious belief, identity and ego here and I know that serious believers will try drinking poison to fly to Hale-Bopp's spaceship, they'll seek martyrdom and adhere to their mad beliefs in the face of anything. That is an argument for the case that humans do not actually have either intelligence or free will. We have programmes we run based on our DNA wiring and our early software installations. Any variation does not compute and we simply can't adjust. It's the 'old dog and new tricks' problem. Our intelligence is limited to our wiring and software and is nearer an Intel 286 ASIC than the amazing powers humans like to believe the species has. Ask somebody three questions [as they do at stockholder meetings] and they'll be lucky to remember the first one by the time the third one is asked and that's just a memory test. Throw in some problems and they'll want a week to think about it. For real confirmation, think of the 20th century and the failed attempts to solve problems which humans attempted. Count the resulting murdered and starved people let alone the general waste, destruction and damage. Our much-vaunted free will is a figment of our imagination which people claim magically replaces our highly successful belief in causal relationships, which works from gravitons across the universe to the most sub-quarkian manouevres of nanosecond particles - not that seconds exist either, other than as a construct to explain why something seems to happen before something else. Anyone who thinks they have free will should try changing their personality or, if they are good actors and they can fool even themselves that they have a new personality, they could try something more difficult such as changing their sexual desires to being homosexual or heterosexual. Or, if they think they have achieved that, then they could try the same trick but with, let's see, how about a handsome or beautiful chimpanzee? So a heterosexual lady could free-will himself into falling for an attractive female chimp. For a real challenge, they could marry a grizzly bear [there's one on Wall Street now - but people seem more frightened than romantic]. Okay, enough of that. I guess you are right. A leopard doesn't change its spots and we have metaphysical certitude at work here. Hmmm, leopards ARE very attractive and some women do like wearing their skins as coats or leotards - presumably hoping for a nice male leopard to appear... I wonder if leopards would be good marketing icons for Globalstar. Women in leopard skin leotards at Truckstops of America truckstops selling Globalstar phones. I think it would work. Those truckdrivers would show instant free-will adjustment and buy a phone from a lady/leopard. But if she's a telecom lady, she won't be able to cut her price. Meanwhile, the truckie will be running his $$ mind-programme and will blanche at the price. I guess they'll go their own ways without consummating the relationship...sadly. She'll end up penniless on the street, selling something else. He'll end up in a lonely cab, roaming the freeways without human contact. Hmmm, I suppose the answer is that the leopard lady will sit alongside him and travel the highways and byways in wedded bliss [without Globalstar - that leaves me the one penniless on the street, which I guess proves the theory that I have neither intelligence or free will or I would be the truck driver or the lady in the leopard leotard]. Quite a few ladies do travel with the drivers of the trucks coming and going from Truckstops of America. Mqurice