From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 9 14: 9:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6FD37B400; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m-net.arbornet.org (m-net.arbornet.org [209.142.209.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96CA43E4A; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org) Received: from m-net.arbornet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m-net.arbornet.org (8.12.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g89LB3jZ003409; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org) Received: from localhost (polytarp@localhost) by m-net.arbornet.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g89LB3Va003406; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT) From: pgreen To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Dave Hayes , Juli Mallett , Joshua Lee , , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <20020909135607.M1838-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Message-ID: <20020909170813.P2991-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Romania! On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Neal E. Westfall wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote: > > > Neal E Westfall writes: > > > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote: > > >> Neal E Westfall writes: > > >> > There is a place for a sense of humor, of course. But I like to keep > > >> > a distinction between having a sense of humor and trivializing life. > > >> > > >> Unfortunately, our life -is- trivial. To think otherwise extends the > > >> ego beyond the bounds of where we can usefully interact with God. ;) > > > > > > If you actually believed that you would stop trying to convince people > > > that life is trivial. > > > > What is this assumption that, if I say something in a debate, I am > > trying to convince people of it? Can't we just be arguing to express > > our worldview? > r o m a n i a > Why? > > > > > If life is trivial why should you care that I don't think life is > > > trivial? > > > > I don't care, really. ;) > > Apparently you do! 8-) > > > Neal > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I A R O M A N I Ans! Vote ROMANIA for president! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message