Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: QwikSand who wrote (70)	4/29/2004 4:01:42 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 197

Well, it's not MSFT cheerleading, and it's not abusive, and while it's OT, it's not excessive (yet, in my judgment), so I think you're safe from the moderator. <g> Charles Tutt (SM)

To: QwikSand who wrote (70)	4/29/2004 8:56:03 AM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197

I would certainly agree that there is something in humans which seeks to construct explanations for the unknown and perhaps unknowable. As you point out, some of these belief systems are benign in character, and other seems to feed on and amplify the less constructive aspects of human nature. Indeed, the marketability of some lies in embracing the lesser aspects of human nature as virtues and those who express the lesser aspects as virtuous. Humans have and will continue to scourge each other for reasons that probably have as much to do with evolutionary imperatives as with economics. The Semitic traditions have been used to justify intolerance and abuse of other humans perhaps more than any collection of beliefs, and that was my point. The notion that the world must die in order to validate sentiments that will probably one day be recognized as a treatable mood disorder is made more dangerous by the use of supernatural justification. Semitic religions stand out as a vehicle for just this.