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To: silvertoad who wrote (19564)	8/31/2006 9:51:15 AM
From: maxncompany	Respond to of 78408

Someone must have fat fingers and messed up their ticker........there were briefly 20,000 shares of ARU for sale at 71 cents .

To: silvertoad who wrote (19564)	8/31/2006 1:17:10 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 78408

OTOTOT: Thanks, I guess, silvertoad. I have not read your other post whatever it was. I will say to you, in complete honesty, my only intent ever, is to understand my existence, my evolution and my universe, before I die, to the best of my ability. It is hard not to notice that every culture on earth almost, (Denmark, Sweden, France and the Neatherlands may be the present day exceptions) makes a pure study of the above quite difficult and has so throughout history with their mores, norms and outrage at science and certain speculations. This post of yours, I am responding to was quite articulate and appreciated. PS: I have wondered my whole life why everyone does not wake up every morning and ask the question: "what the hell is going on? Why am I here and how did I get here??-lol And it is hard not to notice every culure (which number in the thousands) has a different explanation. They cannot all be correct, so I have chosen to go with science.

To: silvertoad who wrote (19564)	9/1/2006 1:18:46 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78408

It is conventionally thought by modern historians that our great advances from the 17th century in academia and science were due to the break away liberal thinkers unfettered by restrictive rulers and religion. In part at least it parallels great political movements such as the Chartists, (ahem) and the revolutions of Europe and the New World. Socialists revolutions seem to come from a different source and being more totalitarian in nature (the "we are the good guys so why do we need more than one party group") have less determined upward path of discovery and progress. en.wikipedia.org I think however the enlightenment of people and their advance in democratic institutions had as much to do with stability, inheritance, and economic prosperity of mercantilism and empire building societies such as GBR as it had to do with freedom loving liberals. Rousseau also argued the importance of a concept that appears repeatedly in the history of liberal thought, namely, the social contract. He rooted this in the nature of the individual and asserted that each person knows their own interest best. His assertion that man is born free, but that education was sufficient to restrain him within society, rocked the monarchical society of his age. His assertion of an organic will of a nation argued for self-determination of peoples, again in contravention of established political practice. His ideas were a key element in the declaration of the National Assembly in the French Revolution, and in the thinking of Americans such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. In his view the unity of a state came from the concerted action of consent, or the "national will". This unity of action would allow states to exist without being chained to pre-existing social orders, such as aristocracy.