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- From: mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
- Subject: Re: Genetic aberations and armchair existentialism, was:Size usurpers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.195929.8796@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet)
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- References: <Bxx7Br.AEq@nic.umass.edu> <1ee3bqINN2qu@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Nov18.204109.20463@cas.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:59:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.204109.20463@cas.org> esp51@cas.org () writes:
- >
- >>Second grade teacher when asked who would care if the universe would not
- >>have been created: "There are some things we were not meant to know".
- >>meant to know". (Above accidently deleated)
- >
- >That's actually a fairly normal question for a second grader to ask,
- >and I see you got the standard canned reply. The correct answer is
- >actually "noone". Just because the human condition limits our ability
- >to imagine the universe with out us in it (try it), doesn't mean that
- >the universe was organized around our mental limitations.
-
- Hmmm. I read the question as "If the universe did not exist, who would
- care?" In this case, the answer is also noone (that word is a peeve -
- looks like a 17th C version of 1200 hrs), but the religious part is gone.
- Funny how you read "created" literally and I read it metaphorically.
-
- >
- >peeve: bible thumpers who won't even take this baby step into existentialism.
- >Their answer: blind faith in comforting fairytales and an occasional
- >crusade to disembowel those who don't see it their way.
-
- You'll burn in Hell for that, son. Repent, or we'll torture some respect
- into your atheistic hide and save your soul.
-
- Obpeeve: In Illinois (or maybe just Cook county), there's a law which
- prohibits smoking in various public accomodations, except in "designated
- smoking areas". Now, you'd think that the signs used to designate such an
- area would say, "Smoking Area", or maybe "Smoking permitted in this area".
- Noooooooo. Every last one of 'em that I've seen says "Designated smoking
- area". I guess all those signs are made by the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
-
- Arrrrrrr
-
- Chris
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