From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 5 18:13:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE0F37B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org [64.239.180.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9114B43E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g861Dq198043; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org) Message-Id: <200209060113.g861Dq198043@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:13:47 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Neal E Westfall writes: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote: >> >> > However, given your rejection of authority, who are you to condemn >> >> > police brutality? >> >> Someone who's lost a friend to it. >> > And this is exactly why I find it bizzare that someone who has lived >> > through such an experience would continue to believe that in the end, >> > it's all pretty meaningless. >> It's called "controlled folly", and I don't believe it or disbelieve >> it. I try to keep from belief, and stick to knowledge. I know that >> none of this life here on Earth is real. Is a character in, say, >> EverQuest real? Does it have meaning? > While playing these games with you is quite amusing and you think you > are being clever, I don't think I am being clever. I think I am being egotistical, deliberately irrational, and stubborn. ;) > you couldn't even continue to play them without acknowledging the > God who makes it possible to string words together into a sentence > that has meaningful content. You ever spit up a waterfall? ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< If you're looking for the key to the Universe I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: There is no key to the universe. The good news: It was never locked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message