ahhhhh, finally an explanation, well to that I say: "busy busy busy :) tee hee hee" **looking at what "could be" ice-nine and asking "should I? should I? Should I drop it?" oops! too late*** (Sorry, woke up in a stranger mood than usual...okay I'll stop now before my boss fires me :P) _______________________________________________________________________ >From: "chris cunningham" <chrislee at neo.rr.com> >To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: Domino's Lute >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:27:06 -0500 > >DDB said: > >It's going strong *here*, and in a lot of third-world places, but >it's >remarkably dead throughout the rest of the developed world. We're >kind of an outlier. > >Yeah, but the rest of the developed world (Europe, yes?) only >represents >a few percent of humankind. You apparently believe that they >indicate >the direction that the rest of us are going in; given enough time >and >resources. > >Maybe. > >You've made me curious, though. What is *their* answer to "why, >why, >why?" > >Mia > >'In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His >cosmic loneliness. >And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can >see >what We have done." And God created every living creature that now > >moveth, >and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as >mud >as >man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the >purpose >of >all this?" he asked politely. >"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. >"Certainly," said man. >"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. >And He went away.' > >(also from vonnegut's _cat's cradle_) > >i suppose that's why religion in some form or another will be with us >for >a >long time, the need to ask "why?" and the expectation that such a >question >must have an answer. don't know about *their answer*, but mine is >that i >don't worry about the (religious) "why's", as i find the (scientific) >"how's" much more interesting. > >also, the two get mixed up sometimes, like "why is the sky blue?" i >mean, >i >can tell you *how/by what process* it is that the sky is blue, but i don't >see any *why/wherefore/for what reason/towards what goal* involved >with >the >sky's coloration. any multilingual types out there know if there are >languages where "why" and "how" don't get easily mixed up? i know some >arabic, and it seems just as confusable, therein. > >chris cunningham _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail