Re: Iran and the UK

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:05:19 -0600, boots <no@xxxxx> wrote:

Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:58:36 -0600, boots <no@xxxxx> wrote:

Alan Hope <usenet.identity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

boots goes:

It's so beguiling to watch the mind of a puttering naif putter,
conventional to the core you believe that death exists yet you have no
certain knowledge of it save external symptoms displayed by others;

It's called inductive reason.

Call it shards of wisdom or foolish acceptance, the name is nothing.

Yeah? Then how come my Christmas stocking still got nothing in it? I
sacrificed an elf, too.

Let me guess, was the elf's name "Santa Claus"?

How the *** am I supposed to know? Little dude with pointed ears,
caught soliciting sex in public bathrooms.

had you an open mind it would immediately be filled with the thoughts
given to it by random chance.

A mind so open that everything falls out?

Once it's emptied you can replace anything useful and leave the
rubbish where it fell, but you can't sort the fish when the barrel is
too full.

Hold tight your delusions, without them
you are lost. Not that you aren't lost anyway.

Indeed. We're all lost for all but the briefest moment of eternity. We
give birth astride a grave, Beckett said. A brief flash of light, then
darkness once again, forever.

Conclusions from Beckett. Lucky for you there is a history of people
who have already done your thinking, no need to trouble yourself when
you can simply append their certification to your beliefs; but for a
different starting point you would be a staunch member of Six Flags
Over Jesus, the level of thought required is identical.

No thought required: no evidence, it ain't real. Content yourself with
the thought that you will have plenty of opportunity to sweat in a
cubicle so you can grab the occasional hour in which to watch TV shows
that bore you silly, spawn babies that keep you up all night before
they go on to SCREAM and then to treat you like dirt, do drugs, and
otherwise break your heart, then vomit your guts out from chemo before
in a frenzy of fear, pain, and suffocation things go black and you're
gone forever.

Geez, that sounds a lot like my life before I said "*** this ***"
and went off to be scrupulously and unfailingly mad as a hatter; this
side of the nuts barrier is much nicer.

Much easier to get a new computer and say "Gee, what a lucky
short-lived sack of chemical reactions I am," dude.

--
Josh

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what
everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." - Alan Greenspan
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