Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jrb From: jrb@wdl1.UUCP (John R Blaker) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Here I Am Again Message-ID: <173@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 23:26:51 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.173 Posted: Thu Mar 1 23:26:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 02:14:00 EST Lines: 47 MORE GOOD THINGS or, The Fit Hit the Shan. >From Evelyn. First off, so nobody thinks I'm theiving, let me credit R. Zelazny for the subtitle. So there. To Fish; Why do you assume I'm male? I've said nothing either way. If you check you're facts, I'm married with at least one child. But why do you assume I'm male? To Fair: Come, now; do only politicians and the like sit on juries? A randomocracy is the only form of government I can imagine which would at least allow for the possibility that someone other than a politician or military leader might hold high office. To those who think Democrats get us into wars: Very well, then, provided you call Eisenhower (Viet Nam), Nixon (Kampuchea, Laos, etc.), and Reagan (Lebanon, so far) Democrats. Not that JFK, LBJ, and Jimmuh didn't do their share, but fair is fair. Right? To: Debray. I am not advocating forcing nicotine addicts to give up their filthy habits. I am not advocating that they be forced to not-smoke-at-all. I **am** advocating a policy whereby their smoke does **not** affect me against my will, and whereby I can force them to move their foulness to places where it will not affect me. Frankly, I think of it as Evolution In Action... Re: Creationism. But evolutionism is also based upon a religion, called Scientism, whose practicioners are Scientists. Among the tenets that we believers in Science accept on faith are these: 1. The Universe works by a set of immutable laws. 2. It is a highly moral act to attempt to discover these laws. 3. Knowledge gained in laboratory conditions may be extrapolated reasonably to the Universe at large. 4. The Universal laws are at least in part discoverable. Note that I said "we who believe in Science," not "we Scientists." I am not a shaman. To all who replied concerning my World.Net proposal: Thank you, and I shall be sure to join that debate and not bore Net.Flame with it anymore. Happy Thursday, Evelyn (A Modified Dog)