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To: snarks_when_bored
I make up my own mind about everything.

It's nice to think that about oneself, but I seriously doubt it's true for anybody.

I'm willing to bet that you (like I) respond emotionally more often then you'd like; and you do things for no apparent reason other than that people have always done it that way -- and that includes some rather significant philosophical, moral, and/or political issues.

28 posted on 01/05/2005 10:59:52 AM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
I make up my own mind about everything.

It's nice to think that about oneself, but I seriously doubt it's true for anybody.

I'm willing to bet that you (like I) respond emotionally more often then you'd like; and you do things for no apparent reason other than that people have always done it that way -- and that includes some rather significant philosophical, moral, and/or political issues.

If there's something significant about which I express opinions, I've thought about it. That's my way. And that's especially true about philosophical, moral and/or political issues. It's a long-standing habit.

I exclude, of course, many of the matters of 'animal faith' which underpin our daily existence. I don't make up my own mind about how chlorophyll converts sunlight into energy, or anything of that sort.

30 posted on 01/05/2005 11:17:02 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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