On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:38:42PM +0100, Dave Long wrote: > What always amazes me is that for well more than 3'000 years people > have developed complicated systems of rules for elucidating meaning > from -- and erecting a literature of commentary around -- books which > are supposedly divinely inspired, yet it's only been in the last 300 > or so that they've made much of an attempt at all to elucidate > meaning from -- and erect a literature of commentary around -- > natural phenomena, which have equally been attributed to the same
Thoughts like those would have landed you at the stake not so long ago. > gods. That entire cultures would first search for divine inspiration > in citation instead of creation is even more puzzling given that it > doesn't take all that much experience in the world to note that > nearly any fool with a spraycan may provide the finger that writes on > walls, but the artificial tree remains science fiction. Working on it, though. Give it some more time.
