Now you're *trying* to give me the shivers Krimel... but it won't work. if .. if .. if ...
if wishes were ponies, beggars wouldn't need to look far for rose fertilizer. I AM; so postualating all the chances which make me NOT are rhetroical blowin' in the wind. Waiter, I don't think this conversation is leading to the Good. John On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Krimel <[email protected]> wrote: > [John] > And more to Arlo's point, making choice dependent upon chance has a certain > truth ring to it, but I'm not sure I'll buy it. It makes ME and MY > existence dependent upon chaotic chance. Shudders. Existential angst comes > all over me. > > [Krimel] > We make choices as a way of influencing chance. We seek to improve our odds > of attaining goals or achieving our hearts desire. That is what evolution > is > all about and all living things have some ability to perceive their odds in > such matters and to act on them. > > Your existence is nothing but the outcome of lots and lots of random > events. > A particular sperm fertilized a particular egg at a particular place at a > particular time. If any of those particulars had been minutely different, > right down to the quantum level, you would be someone else. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
