From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 13:30:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A64616A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:30:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0222F43D53 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:30:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j8SDU8Bn009503; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j8SDU8BZ009502; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:30:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200509281330.j8SDU8BZ009502@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: 2albertfuller@gmail.com Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:30:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <97616d8f050928061255bce88@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:30:09 -0000 Hi All, This is really an interesting discussion. I actually appreciate it. But, it doesn't belong here. Start a list or forum somewhere and let us all know about it so those who would like to continue can without tieing up the FreeBSD questions list. ////jerry > > > taking the risk of starting the 'ultimate-religion-flame-war' (please not!)... ;) religion (of any > > kind!) limits the scope of people's thoughts and makes them more easy to manipulate, > > what patch is this, please tell me it name and location in ports, > because I want to make sure its removed from my system at immediately. > > As a Zen Buddhist, I will loosely quote a Chinese Ch'an (Zen) Master > Rinzai who has said that religion is toilet paper, you use it to clean > yourself up then you thow it away. > > ergo, the purpose is not to contend with others but to wipe your own > ass ... so please get on with the task. If you have wiped then flush > ... not talk. > > > not even mentioning what religion can do to the 'evolution' of mankind (yes, even in these > > days (->the creationists in the usa for example)). > > they don't even come close to be representative of religion in a global context. > > > the world would be a better place if we all would get rid of this. adding all the (positive and > > negative) ways in which religion has affected history, you end up with more bad than good. > > Is this another master plan for everyone. > > > one of the main problems is, rules that may have been necessary and good at some > > times, aren't reflected and reconsidered because they are now 'send by god' and therefore > > untouchable. this creates some really weird (and sometimes brutal) situations. > > are you trying to say that religious proclaimations utilize God as a > self-referential way of imputing authority to the statement within the > statement; if you are then that is an interesting comment on how > authority and legitimation are used tactically to create consent or > consensus ... but then again this is not only true of religion but is > part of socio-cultural dynamics in terms of the use of authoritative > declarations ... It would be useful to apply it to the windows/linux > debate > > > but this is probably offtopic... > > no ... FreeBSD has an extensive array of functions and capabilities > and so I am sure that this one is in there somewhere .... please check > the code. > > > albertfuller > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > email home 2albertfuller AT gmail DOT com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >