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To: muir_redwoods
Here's a trick for you. Set up a mirror on end on a table top. Then, set up a barrier about 3 inches high between you and the mirror. Place some beans behind the barrier.

Now, looking only at the image in the mirror, reach your hand over and pick up a bean.

Virtually all birds can do that trick every single time without fail. Virtually no mammal can ever do that trick correctly the first time - not even human beings.

Bet that's something you'd never observed before.

The difference between your view of things and that of a bird's is profound - yet both birds and men are able to navigate around without all that much trouble. The reality of the world remains unchanged no matter how birds or men view it.

So it is with the universe as a whole. No matter how you view it, or examine it, the impression you come up with is yours, not necessarily mine.

99 posted on 12/30/2001 11:45:21 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Yeah, right. Bye
105 posted on 12/31/2001 8:08:13 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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