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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Hurting the other by a "no"
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:47:51 EDT
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Well, I certainly agree with Ray Allen's philosophy of optimism; I think you
should always have high aspirations.  As Thoreau said, "In the long run,
men hit only what they aim at.  Therefore, though they should fail immediate-
ly, they had better aim at something high." (I hope you will realize that
he means "men and women" when he says "men" here.)

However, this doesn't make sense:

>         If you can conceive an idea in your imagination then it is possible
> for you to attain it.  If you did not have the potential to do so then you
> would not be able to conceive of the idea in the first place.

I can conceive of being in two places at once, and all other kinds of things,
in my imagination, but this doesn't mean it is possible for me to make them
real.  All it takes to conceive of something is for some recognizable image
of it to be encoded, somehow, in your mind (so that you can mentally examine
it and see it is there).   In particular, I think that randomly-generated
ideas are not necessarily "attainable" in reality.
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