Put down your magnifying glass and step away from the mirror, Narcissus.
Posted on 12/07/2002 9:46:51 AM PST by beckett
Of course betty boop is very adept at describing man in the middle.
By definition, you cannot know when you have done this.
The only 2 instincts known to human is the urge to suck and the fear of falling. Study science.
Humans don't have to be taught "how to do it".
If they are raised by wolves, they do it like wolves. If they are raised by missionaries, they do it missionary style. Facts refute you.
Gee, when I said this I was accused of 'remarkably odd' views. Could it be that I'm not the one with such odd notions? Could it be, could it be, I'm not the only one who thinks logic is valid?
Or more tersly, validity is valid. Or truth is true. Or as a Rand clone might say, "Existence exists". That is the problem with all these confused people who try to claim basic principles of thought like identity and noncontradiction do not hold--they always have to appeal to these principles in order to make their point.
thank you beavus. only endorse logic so long as to make one's point, then SHAZZAM!! Welcome to Insanity!
It could be. The fourteen of us, in the whole world, who actually believe in objective truth occasionally bump into each other.
Hank
i thot so. like so many you fed me. we think, therefore we argue. (but we learn!)
It is very sad the one bastion of truth we would suspect could never surrender to irrationality has begun to crumble, but you are very correct. How that old, "natural philosopher," Francis Bacon must be tormented in his grave by what has happened to the truth in our age.
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." ---Francis Bacon
Hank
That many! I will sleep better tonight!
Freepers are the best, agreed. We think, we argue, we are. (some of us are even civil)
As I watch the F16s fly overhead I think we need to close ranks a little and Be Americans. God, I hope it doesn't come to war. We don't need this. But we can't dodge either. Keep arguing people. Keep discussing. We are free. We are the future, or nothing matters.
On the war issue, the only way I can see averting it would require an uprising against our targets. This is not impossible, it's going on in Iran. For it to happen in Iraq, the people must be comfortable that the U.S. et al will back them in the event things go awry. Clinton didn't and it cost many lives and all the momentum:
New York Post 2/3/99 Niles Lathem ".U.S. officials say the CIA has received "credible and reliable" intelligence reports that Saddam is forging alliances with some of the Middle East's most bloodthirsty terrorists - including Osama Bin Laden and Abu Nidal - as part of an apparently new campaign to strike American targets and possibly destabilize Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. News of Saddam's terrorist strategy comes as American efforts to contain him with sanctions and arms inspections appear to be unraveling in the United Nations.. U.S. intelligence agencies are concerned about the possibility that Saddam could not only help with funding and logistics for Bin Laden's far-flung network, known as al-Qada, but he could also help the group acquire chemical and biological weapons through the Sudanese connection. The CIA believes Iraq moved large amounts of precursor chemicals for weapons into the Sudan through Libya before the Gulf War.."
Truly, I hope uprisings will keep this from being costly not just in Iraq but Iran, N. Korea, Syria, Palestine and anywhere terrorism has found a sponsor.
Put down your magnifying glass and step away from the mirror, Narcissus.
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