William T Goodall wrote:
What of people who hold pacifist religous views?
Using Osama bin Laden to make a statement about the general
characteristics
of religion is beyond ludicrous.
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of
Ronald Blankenship wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at some point in the future,
Jesus Christ will
return to Earth as its ruler.
g
In which case, wouldn't the belief that the entire Creation is God's
doing and, thus, under Her ultimate control be defined as a
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:10:40AM +0200, Halupovich Ilana wrote:
Belief in god is weakness, belief in nothing is immorality Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin :-)
I think it would be more accurate to say that belief in nothing is
amorality.
Of course, I've met few people who believe in nothing. I don't
In a message dated 11/24/2002 11:33:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
She taught before she graduated?
No. She knew she was going to be caught, before she graduated.
William Taylor
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- Original Message -
From: Ritu Ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:27 AM
Subject: RE: stereotyping is evil, and why it must be eradicated
Ritu wrote:
Ronald Blankenship wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
(I won't quibble with you over the gender of deity at this
point. ;-) )
Nothing to quibble about there, sir. It's a simple fact. ;)
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half of that cat
of yours?
Ritu
GCU Hanumani-Sindoori?there goes a
- Original Message -
From: Ritu Ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:04 AM
Subject: RE: stereotyping is evil, and why it must be eradicated
Ritu asked:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
(I won't quibble with you over the gender of deity at this
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half
of that cat
of yours?
Other half? Not sure what you mean:
Of course you don't. My bad. :)
Your earlier mail had mentioned a half-kali dog. I somehow remembered a
cat.. :)
Ritu
GCU Oops!
- Original Message -
From: Ritu Ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:51 AM
Subject: RE: stereotyping is evil, and why it must be eradicated
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half
of that cat
I wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
(...) How bad was the collapse of Paraguay
during the War of the Triple Alliance - is it
true that over half the
population died? (Of course, that was during a war.)
Yes and no. The numbers I have read - many times - was that
_ninety_ percent of
Alberto said:
The number of sets of infinite vectors with one scalar zero
is also infinite, but a much bigger infinite
Uh, the components of a vector aren't scalars because they aren't
unchanged by changes in coordinate system. But that's why I was
confused by Mark's message - I translated
Richard Baker wrote:
The number of sets of infinite vectors with one scalar zero
is also infinite, but a much bigger infinite
Uh, the components of a vector aren't scalars because
they aren't unchanged by changes in coordinate system.
I am using an heterodox definition of
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:03:39AM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
So, Set Theory is a Religion?
No. Definition or assumption is not the same thing as accepting
something on faith. One is a convenience, the other is the main point.
Even Science, at some point, requires you to passive accept
Alberto said:
It looked like nonsense because you are too Cartesian.
Maybe you should think in some Riemmanian space, where
the theorem of Pythagoras is no longer valid.
Nevertheless, a Riemannian space has a metric (by definition), and so we
can still generate scalars from the inner
It's not that those thing you listed aren't true,
they are. They could
still flare up, but the cold war is over. Did you
know that before the
british came to india, there was a religious group
in india called
'thugs'. the Thugs systematically killed more than
an order of magnitude
more
Would you accept that places like Yale, Princeton
and Harvard are OK
schools? Or do they all pale compared to old schools
like Oxford?
Dan M.
If they do, you'd have to be prety convincing, because
I decided not to go to Oxford for graduate study
because American universities universally
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:13:28PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Should Democracy be banned because eventually we [*] elect a jerk, a
tyrant, a thief or a megalomaniac?
Erik replied:
Should prostitution be banned because in the prostitution business some
people might take unfair advantage
Ronn wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at some point in the future, Jesus Christ
will
return to Earth as its ruler.
That should be some Christians There are a lot of different ways to
interpret the New Testament...
Reggie Bautista
In a message dated 11/25/02 8:17:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, as a conservative, my odds of actually
getting an academic job are essentially zero, but
that's the way these things work nowadays...
Gautam
Couldn't you take a drug, rent a wig, and
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/24/212952/17
Bush administration pushes for repeal of Miranda law (News) By Arthur
Treacher Mon Nov 25th, 2002 at 01:54:09 AM EST
Bush administration officials U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson
and Michael Chertoff,
Huh? There are plenty of conservative academic
institutions. Hoover
Institute at Stanford, to name a prominent example.
Nick
Actually, there are only a handful. In most surveys,
well under 10% of academics report as registered
Republicans. Among the Harvard government department
the
The Fool wrote:
It's not that those thing you listed aren't true, they are.
They could
still flare up, but the cold war is over. Did you know that
before the
british came to india, there was a religious group in india called
'thugs'. the Thugs systematically killed more than an order
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/5349258p-6338265c.html
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Bush Seeks To
Roll-Back Clean Air Rules
By Chris Baltimore
11-24-2
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has proposed relaxing
clean air rules to help old coal-fired power plants avoid costly
pollution controls, a plan that nine states vowed to fight in federal
court on health grounds.
What he said:
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm
What he did:
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021125/opinion/443603.html
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
So over the weekend I get six or seven emails from Jeroen claiming he's
not mailbombing anybody, and finally my curiosity is sufficiently piqued
that I resub to Brin-L to see what's going on. Hi! What's up?
(A month and a half ago I decided I was investing way, way too much time
in the
People are evil, religion merely reflects this. Eradicate it and
something else will spring up in its place. (Probably for $29.95/mo.
with free installation this week only.) It'll be like trying to kill
Hydra with a Swiss Army knife and a Zippo. Our civilization has already
invested so much
The Fool wrote:
What he said:
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm
What he did:
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021125/opinion/443603.html
Quoting from the second article:
We think Ashcroft's time and effort would be better spent
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julia said:
Can anyone come up with that data?
I'll have a go at calculating rough figures. A quick Google finds that
the population of India was about 300 million in Moghul times (I'm sure
Ritu will correct me if this is wrong), the population of
The Fool wrote:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/5349258p-6338265c.html
Quote from the article:
Once we know what radio station you're listening to, then we
know a lot about you, Langeland said. We know how old you are,
where you like to shop, your household
-Original Message-
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 09:25 AM
To: BRIN-L Mailing list
Subject: Hello again
So over the weekend I get six or seven emails from Jeroen claiming he's
not mailbombing anybody, and finally my curiosity is
In a message dated 11/25/2002 11:35:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So over the weekend I get six or seven emails from Jeroen claiming he's
not mailbombing anybody, and finally my curiosity is sufficiently piqued
that I resub to Brin-L to see what's going on.
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of The Fool
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reggie Bautista asked:
Kneem, should the Republican party be eradicated because of the
illegal
actions of Richard Nixon? Should the Democratic party be eradicated
because
of the illegal actions of Bill Clinton?
Should Democracy be banned
In a message dated 11/25/2002 12:11:50 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In other words, nothing important.
Ah.. the usual
Quoting The Goon Show:
And there's more where that comes from.
William Taylor
Pull up a chair.
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
As long as there are people who believe these kinds of things, whether
they are christians, jews, islamists, hindus or whatever, (and I know
plenty of people with this kind of worldview personally), the
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:18:09AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The real problem is that we **don't** have a decent definition of
religion, as things that are considered religions by most people
differ substantially.
To me, a religion is any
The Fool said:
And just how many unholy wars did the Popes reside over during the
dark ages Mr. Catholic?
Not an awful lot, I would've thought. It seems to me that the main
inter-religious wars during the Dark Ages in Europe were between
Merovingian France and the Muslim armies in Spain and
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the
pacifists
as a footnote.[1]
[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:18:09AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The Fool wrote:
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the
pacifists
as a footnote.[1]
[1]
From: Ronald Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To me, a religion is any system of thought or ideaology in which,
when
you start asking questions, you soon reach the point where you have
no
choice but to passively accept what you are told: take my word for
In a message dated 11/25/2002 12:47:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Fool said:
And just how many unholy wars did the Popes reside over during the
dark ages Mr. Catholic?
replying: Not an awful lot
I'd rather move up a few centuries.
Even Tilly tried
Julia said:
What percentage of muslims advocate theocracy? None of the ones I've
run into (admittedly, a very small sample) were interested in such.
I suppose that now's a bad time to launch my bid to become God-Emperor
of the Known Universe, right?
Rich
GSV There's Always Next Year
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
That's not the point. They could in fact get to those proofs, even if
they do not do so, those proofs do exist.
Richard Baker wrote:
Julia said:
What percentage of muslims advocate theocracy? None of the ones I've
run into (admittedly, a very small sample) were interested in such.
I suppose that now's a bad time to launch my bid to become God-Emperor
of the Known Universe, right?
:D
At 20:30 24-11-2002 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Should the Internet be banned because some people send out spam?
Should Internet discussion groups be banned because some listowners abuse
their power?
Should Internet discussion groups be banned because some people resort to
personal
At 10:41 25-11-2002 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
Strange, maybe Jeroen will do more GOOD for the list than bad? ;)
That is as it has always been. It is now up to the listowners to decide if
they want to keep it that way.
Jeroen
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Julia said:
p.s. How large is the Known Universe?
A few tens of billions of light years across. It depends on a rather
flimsy ladder of distance measurements so I'm not sure exactly how big.
And how can you govern as God-Emperor without FTL communications?
I was planning to wave my arms in
In a message dated 11/25/2002 1:33:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was planning to wave my arms in the general direction of the night sky
and say I claim these worlds in the name of myself, Richard the First
and Last, God-Emperor of the Known Universe.
Pick
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:18:09AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The real problem is that we **don't** have a decent definition of
religion, as things that are
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority.
The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described
Dan Minette wrote:
To me, a religion is any system of thought or ideaology
in which, when you start asking questions, you soon
reach the point where you have no choice but to
passively accept what you are told: take my word
for it or just have faith.
So, Marxism isn't a religion,
The Fool wrote:
To me, a religion is any system of thought or
ideaology in which, when you start asking questions,
you soon reach the point where you have
no choice but to passively accept what you are told:
take my word for it or just have faith.
So, Marxism isn't a religion,
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
So, Marxism isn't a religion, because a Marxist will argue for his
scientific proof of the dialectic till the
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
To me, a religion is any system of thought or
ideaology in which, when you start asking questions,
you soon reach the point where you have
no choice but to passively accept what you are told:
take my word for it or just
The Fool said:
The renasiance didn't happen until after the crusades, in which the
crusaders brought back with them a great deal of knowledge from the
greek and roman times.
I wasn't talking about the Italian renaissance though, but the time
before and during the Crusades. There wouldn't have
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, Marxism isn't a religion, because a Marxist will argue for his
scientific proof of the dialectic till the day he dies.
Yes. But not to me because I undertand logic and find marxism
illogical.
What is logic?
At 18:53 25-11-2002 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Astrology is not a religion.
UFOlogy is not a religion.
Spiritism is not a religion.
Shamanism is not a religion.
Buddism is not a religion.
etc
However, given the worship of the Almighty Dollar by some people, one
cannot help but wonder if
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's not that those thing you listed aren't true,
they are. They could
still flare up, but the cold war is over. Did you
know that before the
british came to india, there was a religious group
in india called
'thugs'. the Thugs
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
So, Marxism isn't a religion, because a Marxist will argue for his
scientific proof
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 18:53 25-11-2002 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Astrology is not a religion.
UFOlogy is not a religion.
Spiritism is not a religion.
Shamanism is not a religion.
Buddism is not a religion.
etc
However, given the worship of the Almighty
Jeroen wrote:
However, given the worship of the Almighty Dollar by
some people, one cannot help but wonder if Capitalism
qualifies as a religion... :-)
Not Capitalism, but just one perverted sect of capitalism
that believes that the dollar is worth anything but
what is written in
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's not the point. They
The Fool wrote:
No. Which exactly my point. If I can't prove my own
existence I also can't prove god's existence.
Math exists whether god, the universe,
consciousness, I, etc. exist. Math is the only thing
that is transcendent. And those math proofs do exist.
This may all
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, Marxism isn't a religion,
In a message dated 11/25/2002 2:01:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is logic?
I liked Spok's answerbut I can't say I remember it exactly.
Something like:
Logic is a beautiful flower--that smells awful.
William Taylor
-
Let's use
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
a slight exaggeration. They existed from at least 1200's and annually
killed [estimation] somewhere between
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's not the point. They could in fact get to those proofs,
even
if
they do not do so, those proofs do exist. With religion,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/25/2002 2:16:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad.
Julia
Ah. Perverted minds think alike.
Why, thank you for the compliment! :)
~~~{~~~@ to Julia.
William Taylor
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, Marxism isn't a religion, because a Marxist will argue for
his
scientific proof of the dialectic till the day he dies.
The Fool wrote:
Are you trying to push godels theorem here?
Now, *there's* something I'd like to see -- theorem pushers. :)
As theorems go, that could be a difficult one to push. Proof of the
quadratic equation, now, that's an easier pill to swallow.
Julia
who contributed to a
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a slight exaggeration. They existed from at least 1200's and
annually
killed [estimation] somewhere between 30k-50k people / year. It
could
actually be higher or lower than that. It comes out it the same
ballpark
Julia Thompson wrote:
As theorems go, that could be a difficult one to push.
Proof of the quadratic equation, now, that's an easier
pill to swallow.
I once tryed to push the cubic equation (Cardano's theft
from Tartaglia) to a younger friend with mathematical
skills. He's a shrink
The Fool wrote:
Formal logic is all computer scientist / programmers do. All formal
logic system must have one [or more] axiom, but in math we keep that one
axiom very very simple.
What's the simplest one [or more] axiom you can base a system on?
Julia
In a message dated 11/25/2002 2:30:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you trying to push godels theorem here?
Gödel showed that for any formal axiomatic system, there is always a
statement about natural numbers which is true, but which cannot be proven in
the
- Original Message -
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a slight exaggeration. They
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steal from the best, I always say.
William Taylor
-
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky school of ethics.
Ethics or something else? :)
BTW, thanks for resetting my internal soundtrack. I like Tom Lehrer,
but I really shouldn't play the stereo while
At 16:44 25-11-2002 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
How about:
Dr. Brin showed that for any formal science fiction universe, there is
always a statement about the nature of life which is true, but which
cannot be proven in the universe--and therefore makes for a good story.
Steal from the best, I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/25/2002 2:34:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hope that isn't a rose -- I'm allergic.
I'll make it a Carnation.
An ice cream carnation, since Carnation is an old establised AZ brandname.
Pink candycane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:34:11PM -0500, K. Feete wrote:
I'm actually preparing to write a scifi story where the government has
outlawed religious expression (along with any racial references
whatsoever). The point being that a) it doesn't work and b) they live
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lets look at a couple of things religion brought us in the past before we
examine this question. We have: the dark ages, the crusades, the Spanish
inquisition, the divine right of kings, jihad, forced religious
conversions, thought crimes AKA heresy, caste systems,
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only book I ever burned was The Bell Jar. I
didn't think it was the right
book to manditarily hand to a freshman.
_Dianetics_. I read a few chapters, skimmed the rest,
then ripped it up and poured bacon grease on it. (At
the time I was curious about the
From: K. Feete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:34:11PM -0500, K. Feete wrote:
I'm actually preparing to write a scifi story where the government
has
outlawed religious expression (along with any racial references
whatsoever). The point being that
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only book I ever burned was The Bell Jar. I
didn't think it was the right
book to manditarily hand to a freshman.
_Dianetics_. I read a few chapters, skimmed the rest,
then ripped it up and poured bacon grease on it. (At
the
The Fool wrote:
No. Which exactly my point. If I can't prove my own existence I also
can't prove god's existence. Math exists whether god, the universe,
consciousness, I, etc. exist. Math is the only thing that is
transcendent. And those math proofs do exist.
Yes, but, as Searle and
In a message dated 11/25/2002 3:09:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm more a fan of Bluebell
I think they start in Texas. I know Edmond OK has one. For 22 years straight
I'd stop by for a day or two. SCA friend.
Sorta like White Castle. Ya gottem or you don't.
From: K. Feete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lets look at a couple of things religion brought us in the past before
we
examine this question. We have: the dark ages, the crusades, the
Spanish
inquisition, the divine right of kings, jihad, forced religious
conversions,
Marvin's back!
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:46:07AM -0600, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
It'll be like trying to kill Hydra with a Swiss Army knife and a
Zippo.
The Zippo might be more effective than the knife. Just lure it into a
tar/petroleum pit and light!
--
Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 11/25/2002 3:12:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Screw eradicating religion. Let's eradicate politics and economics. grin
It's not yet economical to eradicate politicians, but the Internet is
certainly taking us in that direction.
I'd rather have
Marvin wrote:
So over the weekend I get six or seven emails from Jeroen claiming he's
not mailbombing anybody, and finally my curiosity is sufficiently piqued
that I resub to Brin-L to see what's going on. Hi! What's up?
Jeffrey replied:
Ditto. Strange, maybe Jeroen will do more GOOD for
William wrote:
The only book I ever burned was The Bell Jar. I
didn't think it was the right
book to manditarily hand to a freshman.
Debbi replied:
_Dianetics_. I read a few chapters, skimmed the rest,
then ripped it up and poured bacon grease on it. (At
the time I was curious about the
In a message dated 11/25/2002 3:12:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
_Dianetics_. I read a few chapters, skimmed the rest,
then ripped it up and poured bacon grease on it. (At
the time I was curious about the Scientology hoopla,
and decided to read Hubbard's
Kat Feete wrote:
Therefore, Kant concludes, math is *not* transcendant; it requires
reference to the material world and expression through it, and is
therefore, as Merleau-Ponty will argue a century or so later, affected
and defined, like all things, by our worldview and our subjective
-Original Message-
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Behalf Of The Fool
...
conquestadors, slavery, apartheid, and feudal systems were political
and
conquistadors: conquer, take gold, convert to catholicism. Notice how
most of south America is adamantly
on 25/11/02 12:18 am, Alberto Monteiro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
Questionable. Communist might be considered a kind of religion, as
some of its dogmas are based on faith.
It explicitly rejects supernatural explanations though.
Some religions also deny
From: K. Feete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
No. Which exactly my point. If I can't prove my own existence I also
can't prove god's existence. Math exists whether god, the universe,
consciousness, I, etc. exist. Math is the only thing that is
transcendent. And those math proofs
Jeroen asked:
At 20:30 24-11-2002 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Should the Internet be banned because some people send out spam?
Should Internet discussion groups be banned because some people
resort to
personal attacks when they cannot win an argument?
Jeroen Corruption delenda est van
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Carnation is a brand of instant hot chocolate. I've
been known to buy
it and fix it for myself sometimes. (I get the Rich
Chocolate flavor when I buy it.)
They also make a chocolate malt powder to add to milk,
which I use in summer when it's
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Food isn't evil and can be eaten Re: religion is evil, why
itmust be eradicated
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Carnation is a
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