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

To: one_less who wrote (79026)	11/12/2003 11:50:11 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"But it looks as though, we agree that there is evidence of intent and that it is an unseen aspect of our humanity." Yes, human minds can calculate and formulate. And human dsire has been recognized for thousands of years. Desire pursued by mind equals intent... "It is a matter of written history that dangers, difficulties, and conflicts with corruption present themselves throughout our story" Yes, life is dangerous. "Such things have been foretold in religious scripture as well." People have forever expressed their fears and forebodings of the future. Nobody knows the future because it has not happened. "It should be obvious that nothing comes to the poltroon and the skeptic idler" Don't be naive. A person born rich can idle all he wants. Everything he desires will come to him. "Responsibility always involves intent and action toward and about your circumstance." One can be responsible for the unintended. You are thinking of accountability.

To: one_less who wrote (79026)	11/13/2003 2:06:17 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

My best friend lost her father tonight. Everything he was is gone. She will drive down to the funeral; the family will grieve...and it all goes on... As I spoke to her tonight I thought about Harvey several hundred years ago discovering the laws of circulation. I thought about how conflicted the best minds of the 16th century were, and how ignorance was their constant companion. And then I wondered how rational people could apply to those of 1200 years ago and accept their stupidity as fact? Most people today will go under the knife for a hernia operation--but some still believe that you cure leprosy by gutting pigeons? How does a person read about the slow progress of thought over the centuries until we finally fly to the moon, while claiming to consider primitive stupidity as Divine? I have such trouble conceiving of such gullibility. Yes...the greatest scientists of the middle ages had moronic ideas; but Origen 1200 years before that--(wasn't he the one who castrated himself from God)--knew nothing much about anything in the modern world, did he?