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

To: coug who wrote (67305)	11/21/2002 10:38:09 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

In one sense, we know nothing. Everything is probables. We don't even know that the sun exists. All our seeing, all our instruments, could be being manipulated by a dragon that lives deep in the earth and has the ability to control our minds. So no, we don't know anything absolutely. We live in a world where we act on the basis of assumption based on probablities based on experience. On that basis, I believe that if we had not had any military force of any kind from 1030 through 1950, we would have been conquered by the Germans. No, I don't know that, any more than I know that if we had not developed nuclear missiles and the USSR had that we would be as free today as we are. But I look at history, I learn from the experiences of other people, I apply the lessons learned to today's environment, and I reach conclusions.