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To: Rambi who wrote (6689)	1/29/1998 6:02:00 PM
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barbarcoa. Eyup. OK, I gotta get that cleared up, supper on the table (for real) thanks, I'll be back with a spiffy Jeff answer. :o) pete

To: Rambi who wrote (6689)	1/29/1998 7:47:00 PM
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Soda, thanks. I love the English language. really. uh...ahem. Do I hafta guess at barbacoa, or what? I gotta go back and read the last 100 posts and figger it out? Ah... OK, back later. Where is the onion dip, please? Thanks. OK,here goes, let's see if I can find it in less than 15 minutes: techweb.com dict.dictionary.com search.thesaurus.com Ah! Bueno! mas salsa, por favor, cinco minutos reamainos! godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu pete

To: Rambi who wrote (6689)	1/29/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 71178

Alright, this is totally off topic but I am reading a wonderful book about Santayana, and I had this sort of revelation as I was reading in the car. What if what I am looking for, some unifying belief system (a la Joseph Cambell) can't exist because you are either wired for belief (and gravitate towards religion or an egoistic philosophy, or one with Platonic "ideals") or you aren't in which case you can only accept observation based real world philosophies, with a certain degree of relativism. Seems to me there would be an evolutionary advantage for the human species to come wired for different possiblillities.