"if you strip away the labels and isms and meta tags, what are you left with? or, more to the point, what I am left with? am I strong and free enough as an...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 2, 2003 8:10 pm
eduard, Don't you think it's a waste of human potential to be frightened and lonely by the possibility of freedom? This is an interesting stage in human...
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bhvwd
Sep 2, 2003 8:18 pm
Anything exists because more primordial entities existed before the present anything The energy levels of the big bang condensed into 3 quark combinations of...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 2, 2003 9:37 pm
Mary Jo, I was responding to Eduard's point that "conventional religion" would go into a tailspin of sorts in the 21st Century. So, what, then, is your point...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 2, 2003 10:03 pm
Eduard, Well, as a postmodernist might insists, "like any other word used to signify or represent the relationship between in my head and out in the world,...
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eduard at home
yeoman4
Sep 2, 2003 10:10 pm
Ed, That gets me no further than what we started out with. If postmodernist refers to a literary style, then it must be a style in a particular time....
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 2, 2003 11:26 pm
Biggie, I don't care what billions of other people believe, and they can all choose to transfigure their rhetoric into reality; but I will do my personal best...
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Warren Thompson
wot53_2000
Sep 3, 2003 2:21 am
Biggie, It seems the stats worldwide support what you are saying. Fundamentalism & Pentecostalism are on the rise producing Mega-churches within Christianity....
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 7:15 am
Exactly. Lorna Landry <lornalandry@...> wrote:Matt, What sort of details should we be concerned about in regard to abortion?? I would think whether or not...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 7:24 am
Ed, "Properly";, eh? Is that anything like, "the way I use it"? Biggie leeedgartyler@... wrote: In a message dated 9/2/2003 7:38:24 AM Central Standard...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 7:39 am
Bill, I do so love seeing my name on the subject line! Thanks. Oh, and regarding your answers to the primordial questions? Don't quit your day job [drilling...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 8:17 am
Mary Jo, Do you have any idea how many people in the world would read what you wrote below and call it "nonsense";? The only question than becomes this: how...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 3, 2003 10:50 am
Biggie, And how proud you must be of your nonsense as well. Regarding language, I agree with the quote. However, that doesn't preclude using even more words...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 3, 2003 11:22 am
Despite my horror at all the "murdering", I'm fascinated with the certainty of each murderer. All three - the abortion doctor, the fundamentalist "martyr" who...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 3, 2003 1:17 pm
Sorry, that's the state will righteously execute the abortion doctor murderer. Jo ... state ... united. ... the ... and ... a ... not...
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bhvwd
Sep 3, 2003 3:14 pm
Seeking cause and effect relationships has long been a reason for rational men to observe the cosmos surrounding us. It is comforting to start a process and...
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bhvwd
Sep 3, 2003 3:48 pm
Here in Iowa, the do little dogooders love control. As they butt into other peoples lives they also love to manage the news. We are , you know ,in a christian...
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iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 4:20 pm
From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" "....for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 3, 2003 4:43 pm
Mary Jo, I never blink philosophically. Not many others can say that, in my view. There is clearer information as natural science understands and "clearer"...
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bhvwd
Sep 3, 2003 4:49 pm
Biggie, We yearn for the unified field theory. Ten words or symbols that rule the universe will do nicely, thank you. Last night my father in law sent me the...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 3, 2003 5:37 pm
Biggie, This is all true. There are many things about which people communicate. There are many ways to communicate. Philosophically anything we say may be true...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 3, 2003 7:02 pm
Concerning abortion, what matters is accountability to oneself and another. What does it mean to be human? Either there is an eternity or there isn`t. "The...
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bhvwd
Sep 3, 2003 7:30 pm
I always attributed that quote to the guys attourney who was speaking tongue in cheek on the day of division.Bill[the eternal parent]...
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 4, 2003 7:25 am
Mary Jo, After spinning it this way and that, I figure: okay, I can live with it. Biggie Mary Jo Malo <alcyon11@...> wrote: Biggie, This is all true....
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George Walton
iambiguously
Sep 4, 2003 8:28 am
Mary Jo, You know where I stand on the matter: because we die life means nothing because we die life means everything. Or as Kundera himself so incisively...
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iambiguously
Sep 4, 2003 11:39 am
The inherent difficulty in asking "what is free will?" is that we have to determine, first of all, if we have the free will to even ask it. But in order to...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 4, 2003 3:48 pm
Biggie, If it's your opinion that we don't really know anything, and that we can't possibly have free will, then why do you want to discuss it at all? :) Mary...
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Lorna Landry
porkbites
Sep 4, 2003 4:12 pm
Biggie, Then why to some of the decisions I find myself making seem so weighty? I think ontologically speaking, it doesn't really matter whether or not we can...
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bhvwd
Sep 4, 2003 4:28 pm
Existentialism has weaknesses just as all other philosophies. Situational ethics allows for great versitility in response but lack of static moral base...
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Mary Jo Malo
alcyon11
Sep 4, 2003 4:42 pm
From a website I found: Camus and the Power of Language: or "Be careful which words you choose, because they might change your life." In his novel The Plague,...
