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To: whispering out loud
[me] If a rock falls and breaks into three smaller rocks, all sitting on the flat surface of the ground, how many objects are there? Three rocks? Three rocks and a triangle? Where did that fourth object, the triangle, "come from"?

Wow, what profound wisdom, you do realize that if this phenomenon where to occur, the triangle existed long before the phenomena. Triangles were apparent throughout nature before your rock ever broke. After a statement like this, you have no room to infer lack of anyones intelligence. Please attempt to make a coherent statement before blatant attacks.

What a curious response. First off, how was that question an attack? LOL!

Secondly, I'm not asking about where triangles came from, I'm asking where that specific triangle came from. Did an angel go to the Big Pile O' Platonic Forms, pick out a triangle, and fasten it onto the three rocks? Or did that triangle emerge out of nothing the moment the big rock broke into three?

328 posted on 03/10/2006 9:28:41 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Life and Solitude in Easter Island by Verdugo-Binimelis)
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To: jennyp
"Must...not...comment...step...away...from...the...keyboard... :-) (Off to dinner.)"

I was referring to the tremendous restraint you were obviously showing in not commenting. It was obvious to anyone due to my last statement that you were referring to my "sanity, intelligence, or understanding" or lack there of.

As for your "magical triangle" triangles exist. everything has a shape, some things just happen to take the shape of a triangle, I suppose that if all three pieces landed in a straight line, then line segments would be invented. oh or if it broke into 8 pieces would it form an octagon, or a circle? I guess that would depend on who was looking at it, and weather they inserted mental arcs, or line segments. Oops does that mean that the person creates the shape in their mind? I'm sorry, and I truly mean no offense, but that is the weakest argument supporting natural selection that I have ever heard.

363 posted on 03/11/2006 7:15:22 AM PST by whispering out loud (the bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie)
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