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This is an excellent question, Simplicity. My knee-jerk reaction is to view it as a dangerous. While mankind has been manipulating the genes of plants and animals since civilization began, it's quite different when applied to humans. Even though there's no direct manipulation of genetic material, th...

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "Smart people often do stupid things."

But your interpretation is certainly less cynical.

On 2002-02-25 08:52, Simplicity wrote:
Anyway, how could a person of your intellectual caliber bring progress to a halt, unless you were trying! : )

I think a character in Dilbert expressed it best when he said "Intelligence had much less practial application than you'd think."

-Crash

Well, what I look like has changed quite a bit over the last year, as a result of my last job. I worked construction on the road for about 8 months, so I got used to wearing the same basic stuff day in, day out. At work, I wore cutoffs in the summer and an undershirt, sneakers, cheap wraparound glas...

LOL! Actually, Mitya, if you're posting, then you can't have a rank of "Lurking", can you?

Elix-

I feel your pain. Well, felt your pain, that is-I know what you're going through. Glad to hear you're feeling better. Just remember, oatmeal is your friend!

FIF rocks!

Sportcat- Excellent questions! Then there's the matter of how we recognize those constants... how we label or interpret things, but that level of "reality" is only for the sake of understanding and can be changed at will, the physical "reality" still remains constant. So, is the definition of realit...

Sportcat- Excellent questions! Then there's the matter of how we recognize those constants... how we label or interpret things, but that level of "reality" is only for the sake of understanding and can be changed at will, the physical "reality" still remains constant. So, is the definition of realit...

Why Crash? Well, it dates back to high school. It has to do with my first love, a 1978 SAAB 99 Turbo, a hairpin corner, and a stout tree. Now, it's my on air name. Given my ability to abruptly bring any sort of progress in my life to a swift and thunderous halt, it's an apt moniker. :wink: <font siz...

My favorite color?

Plaid.

Simplicity, Have you ever heard of a book called "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"? Because it has some interesting answers to the questions you ask. (The motorcycle only comes into the story to explain how we perceive and create order in the world.) Robert Pirsig, the author, does argue t...

Not to disparage or promote anyone's belief system, but I find it rather significant that three of the world's major religions - Christianity, Bhuddism, and Islam - all share very similar core concepts regarding Mankind's actions towards one another, the existence of a Creator, and the central role ...

Rico and y'all, I've been reading JS Mills' "On Liberty" for a seminar, and something he wrote struck me as being very true: What is boasted of at the present time (1859) as the revival of religion is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there ...

Simplicity, How about, Reality is that which causes the perceptions we believe to be real. Our worldview is created from a bunch of analyzed images and other stimuli that we combine into semi-coherent patterns, whether that be seeing an apple or comprehending the philosophy of Plato. Problem is, all...

I will not stand for showering with the Count!<P>------------------
Love is just a curvature in the space-time continuum.
--Albert Einstein

I dunno if that's such a good idea, Rico. It seems to me that there's a sort of love-hate tension between Twapa and Keer, and if they start fighting, they may end up falling for each other....<P>-Crash<P>------------------
Love is just a curvature in the space-time continuum.
--Albert Einstein

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Simplicity: The term 'gentleman' seems to have run screaming with the hermits! .......... So I don't know, what do you think? Macho man out of style, gentleman back in?[/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I don't think that ac...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Elix: Or, if you're brave, you can address me by "O captain, my captain" <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"> [Free cookies to first person to spot the reference; not hard.] <IMG SRC="http://www.ke...

Okay, so what appendage should I raise if I think that I'm sorta dating a girl (meaning, I'm not looking for anyone else while she makes up her mind), but <B>she</B> doesn't think that we are really dating in the exclusive sense of the word, and that we should be open to seeing other people, even th...