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To: Lane3 who wrote (5301)	3/9/2003 12:23:26 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

You're old enough (as few here are) to remember Tom Lehrer. Somebody else wondered whether he was still alive, too. One of the reasons I keep a turntable in the house is to listen from time to time so some of his greatest hits. Those and my old Bill Cosby platters -- remember the one about Noah and the Ark?? No owners manual! smh.com.au

To: Lane3 who wrote (5301)	3/9/2003 1:27:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

For some reason it's stuck in my craw that people can engage in whatever absurdities they want as long as it's under the umbrella of the dominant religion and they're above reproach even though similar absurdities in another context would evoke derision. But when a "dominant religion" does do such things, or sometimes even things that most people would consider far less absurd, they do evoke derision. I see derision of organized religion all of the time. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (5301)	3/9/2003 8:21:55 PM
From: briskit	Respond to of 7720

Things nagging at you hold the possibility of exciting discovery. They are really blessings and potential serendipities in many ways, though often unwelcome on the face of it. Einstein and other great discoverers were nagged at by things they couldn't understand at first, and finally had amazing breakthroughs. But I think all the kinds of people in the world are represented in every system and belief and political party that exists. How they all find their way to those places I do not know. Yet, none of them (or us?) are beyond reproach or assessment. To some people I am no doubt one of the biggest jackasses they know. There were also kind Germans and even Nazis who had compassion on the victims of their politics. Greatness and beauty, as well as pettiness and ugliness co-exist side by side in every beautiful and every ugly system and organization and belief, it seems to me, albeit in churches or abstract, esoteric biology or philosophy departments. Maybe even on Jerry Springer.