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To: abuelita who wrote (16563)	4/6/2007 1:17:48 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217908

Predictability is a mark of rationality Rose. For the mathematically illiterate, I hasten to explain that being predictable is not proof of rationality. But rationality can only exist with predictability. And, a corollary to that, is that only the rational can be the observer who determines the rationality of the observed, because the irrational observer will not cognize predictability in the observed. It's superficially a circular argument, but that's how reality works = reality is a self-defining business. As a bonus, reality is inherently unpredictable for various fundamental reasons such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and bubbling quantum particles which might or might exist. So, peculiarly, rationality is predictable while simultaneously being unpredictable. Which is problematic because the irrational and rational are stuck in the same situation with no mechanism to know which is rational and which isn't. Hence, TJ is completely irrational, but entirely predictable, when he asserts that the inevitable is coming and not only that, but he KNOWS what that inevitability will be. I hope that clears it up for you. Mqurice

To: abuelita who wrote (16563)	4/6/2007 2:16:13 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217908

You guess? I'm sure! MQ and several million like him, want order. They need to look around them and find that the world that exists inside their brains are there for real. For that they need a government putting at every step the sign of warning of what you can do what you cannot do. And then there are cops inside cars making sure people walk the line. (That because they don't have a Koran forcing them to walk the line, like in some other places I know.) And then there are courts to set fines. Jails to throw in the recalcitrant and lawyers, lots of lawyers, to argue the case of the guy who was found pissing on a tree 3 AM because he happened to have left the bar without going to the WC or toilet (but since we are talking about a certain type of country you need to say: washroom. And then there's an army of law makers. Producing laws, doling out rights for this and rights for that. Then he gets a matron telling him how much tax hes got to pay, and she decides where to spend and the MQ's of this world complain about that outcome!! I prefer countries where I can scratch my balls in public.