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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (37467)	11/19/2001 3:34:20 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I can and do answer those questions, and many many others. If you cannot see how I might do that, I think perhaps you are suspecting the wrong person of ignorance.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (37467)	11/19/2001 5:30:41 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

"Mommy, when did time begin? When will it end?" "Mommy, where does space end? What's on the other side of it?" If you can't answer these simple questions, you are as ignorant as an ant who lives in a glass ant farm, and who believes that the entire universe and all of existence is enclosed within those glass walls. Nobody can answer these questions with any certainty. Some of us are honest enough to admit that we don't know for sure. Others cling to medieval superstitions and pretend to have found answers. We know much more about the world around us today than we did a thousand years ago, or a hundred years ago. We will know much more about it a hundred or a thousand years from now, assuming that we do not annihilate ourselves. Will we ever know everything there is to know about it? Probably not. Is there anything wrong with admitting that there are things we do not know yet? Not that I can see. Is there any advantage to inventing fairy tales to explain the things we don't know? Again, not that I can see.