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To: Ish who wrote (123092)	1/12/2004 5:38:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ish, you need to ponder reality a little more. Schizophrenics have ideas too, but they are locked up if too wayward, because their ideas of reality are too dangerous for the rest of us to cope with. Humans for the most part have a very tenuous grasp of reality. Some even believe there are supernatural beings looking after them and a magical permanent existence if they martyr themselves in Jihad. Others think there's another true way to paradise [but not for those Protestant bastards!]. There are many competing brands of The Way The Truth and the Light. Nature is busily filtering the faulty ideas out of the DNA [hence human intelligence has made such good progress - smart brains with good ideas do better than the dopes who get it wrong]. It's harsh and merciless work, but somebody has to do it. Ideas aren't real. They are just flickerings in our minds, hopefully reflecting reality, but all too often, nothing more than a Fun House reflection of what's really going on. When we convert our ideas to reality, then we are in the dinkum stuff. The most dangerous ideas of all are our own faulty ones. Islamic Jihad ideas are scary, but kill vastly fewer than those killed by their own silly ideas [such as choices on what to swallow or inhale]. On the other hand, ideas are the most real of things because it's the perception and idea which creates the reality of the rest. Trees falling in forests and Shrodinger's Cat are very lonely and don't exist until noticed by an observer. It certainly is a fun world in the MADhouse. Mqurice