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

To: one_less who wrote (8420)	3/14/2001 2:04:28 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

No impediment what so ever. The certainty with which I approach the complexities and mysteries of life is not droll but rich and rewarding. WOW! Certainty over time, consciousness, gravity--and everything in between! Well, as "Ratty" said in "The Wind In The Willows" "...Finally, I am becoming stupider no more." <<Time, consciousness, and gravity>> ... "These concepts are understandable in the proper context...one based in purpose, which you have chosen to deny. Have fun, but watch out for that truck." If only you knew how absolutely visible you are! Or as As Bertrand Russell put it: "The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." LOL!! Finally, as a sop to your certainty: "To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." -- Isaac Asimov Don't let the bugaboos bite!!

To: one_less who wrote (8420)	3/14/2001 9:07:36 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The certainty with which I approach the complexities and mysteries of life is not droll but rich and rewarding. Time, consciousness, and gravity:... Illusive yes...by design... These concepts are understandable in the proper context...one based in purpose, which you have chosen to deny... I just love it when I see otherwise apparently sensible people bragging that they understand the complexities of life, they possess certainty, they offer the the proper context, they have knowledge of the purpose on which the context is based. What is striking is that the obvious fact that so many others with different "certainties" have felt (and do e'en as you speak) equally convinced of their monopoly on "understanding," and "purpose," fazes them not at all. None of them. They're all, in their infinite variety, just as blithe and certain as they can be. Blithe, blithe, blithe. Certain, certain, certain. It makes one's eyeballs roll, yet is quaint, and would be cute, anthropologically speaking, if all that certainty didn't give the fervid leave to try to bend others to their perceived purposes.