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(...) So John, You were going to get back to this? --Chris (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: How to decide what art is worth (was Re: Extropianism
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(...) I would argue that. I would also say that while the market _is_ what should determine what gets made, it's not the same as an objective quality metric. It's a popularity metric. Due to preferences and finances and whole slew of other (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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<FH388n.5F4@lugnet.com> <37C5D07F.B4AB98C3@voyager.net> <FH3z48.893@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) What if the voluntarily given money is more efficiently used? What if the donors also (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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<FH388n.5F4@lugnet.com> <37C5D07F.B4AB98C3@voyager.net> <FH3z48.893@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Er, technically, no. They would merely have to give enough more that the same worthy (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: read this, then fight about it!
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Christopher Weeks wrote in message <37C695B7.58633C22@e...se.net>... (...) I just figured there would be someone out there who didn't like it. I hope they pass it soon. -- Have fun! John AUCTION Page (More soon!) (URL) Page (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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<FH0z76.FnM@lugnet.com> <FH2vtD.A01@lugnet.com> <FH33sH.M82@lugnet.com> <37c602bf.99869@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I would think it would pop back up pretty quickly. Like I've said (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: read this, then fight about it!
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So what's to fight about? (...) [snip] (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) There is a message posted by me some time ago, not coincided but closely related: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Scott Edward Sanburn wrote in message <37C463EE.BEAF6F93@a...ng.com>... (...) out (...) Maybe (...) Billions of dollars for what? My mother's sake?.. It's bussines you know, no undeveloped country, no MARKET. Selçuk PS. The help for the last (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) Do you agree with the mob rule mentality, then? people should be tried on public opinion rather than a courtroom? So if I say you should be killed, and 500 other people want to, then it is OK? That is baffling! Just because the public opinion (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: all this bickering reminded me of a joke...
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An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when suddenly his boat was attacked by the Loch Ness monster. In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat high into the air. Then it opened its mouth to swallow both. As the man sailed head over (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | theism & atheism (was: Re: 22/7 & infinities)
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(...) I would say that, yeah. Definitely. Atheism is a meme just as much as theism is. Moreover, atheism is a direct byproduct of theism. If theism had never evolved on this planet, then neither would have atheism. Theism can exist without atheism, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) That's not sufficient. For your point to be valid, people would not only have to give more, but would have to give at least as much more as charities get from taxes. Incidently one of the arguments in the UK (and I don't see why it shouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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(...) Uh? I can see China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Iraq. But France???? No the USA is not alone in imperialism. If you were willing to go back 30 or 40 years you could add a whole host of other countries - South Africa, the UK, Argentian, Spain, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) Yeah - religions can adapt. I don't think David Eaton is really correct to say that Christianity doesn't bend - it does - it just does so over a period of hundreds of years - rather than tens of years. Christianity has adapted tremendously (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) I (...) Yes you're right that we all inevitably get influenced by our prior beliefs. We also all have our own ideas about what counts as reasonable - and in most cases we'd be hard put to explain why we draw the line where we do. I *think* the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Tom McDonald <radiotitan@spamcake.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FH2x8n.Bq0@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Do you want the "everything's always right, exactly right, literally right" explanation? If so, then he hanged himself, fell off the tree (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37C3E470.A22410...ger.net... (...) and I (...) What I mean is that usually everyone involved in these discussions takes it very seriously and tends to think you can't really approach it from a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) I like the note in there about survival of the fittest! IMHO, all of the religions popular today are memes or viruses of the mind which have adapted and evolved to serve the human condition and local political climates. Those religions which (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | NEA - worthwhile projects?
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Well, to be honest, I found one thing today that *I* definitely approve of the NEA doing/helping. (URL) known about the Perseus Project for a long time, but never bothered to look into who was funding it. Lots of private funding there too, though. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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