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To: sea_urchin who wrote (18287)	5/17/2003 11:35:26 PM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81776

"Can you imagine a lion or a tiger or a caterpillar looking for more meaning, more purpose and more glory in its life than it already has?" Searle That is a pretty morbid outlook, imo. After all, out of the whole animal kingdom we are the only ones with awareness of ourselves and have the ability to imagine a creator who made the universe. And why not? Is your answer that we were born in a swamp, developed from microbes to our present knowledge and then to blindly live a life that goes no where and has no meaning, rhyme or rythem? Even the molecules that make up all of existence seem to have more direction than that! James

To: sea_urchin who wrote (18287)	5/24/2003 9:22:35 AM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81776

Searle: Please accept my apology for what you have perceived as critical comments. I'll argue nothing more than social cluelessness in defense. In suggesting the need to step back and look at the essential nature of people (and accept it even if we think it requires acceptance of 'bad' human traits) if we hope to develop a real solution, i seem to have portrayed an arrogant attitude that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is an insignificant squabble that is beneath me and doesn't matter and that your ideas were foolish(?). It certainly wasn't my intent to mock (and stifle) your thoughts since I find them interesting (and frequently enlightening). And while I'm better than most at maintaining a dispassionate view of the human carnage that surrounds us on a daily basis, the story of Rachael Corrie (which I know you are familiar with since you read Charley Reese) makes even my cold heart ache and will forever prevent me from not caring about the Isreali/Palestinian conflict. electronicintifada.net I hope her life had more meaning and more purpose than to serve as just another reminder of man’s willingness to address conflict through force. But it doesn’t seem so. John