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To: Neocon who wrote (27523)	6/5/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

A difficulty that I have with philosophy is that long, long books are written and discussions held for hours and years to get down to "choice is unavoidable." Well, yah. This is simple truth known to all, I would think, and accepted by most. There are those that prefer illusions. But if you're standing on a street corner wondering which way to go, it's right there. Gotta make a choice. Even "not making a choice" is a choice, since you've decided to do nothing. And that takes all those words and volumes to say?

To: Neocon who wrote (27523)	6/6/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

"But before we go on, we must decide if we think the universe is ultimately hospitable to human concerns, or indifferent and/or hostile to them. This is such a fundamental choice, because it has to be made before we can claim anything like knowledge of the matter, and we can never be sure of the extent to which it biases our subsequent speculation, that on the most important matters, philosophy is more like a way of clarifying our options then of answering our questions, and choice is finally unavoidable... " If you ask this question and answer it honestly, you can avoid wasting your (and our) time with obsolete fuzzy-headed empty pates like Kierkegaard, Kant, etc. who speculate on unverifiable mental games and clutter up your thinking space. I am astounded that anyone as intelligent as you appear to be reads this stuff anymore. I personally don't mind your wasting bandwidth on discarded philosophic notions, but this is DAR -- not Metaphysics 101 at a trashy religious college in the woods. Are you sure they didn't call you "Pain in the Ass" in your junior high school?