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echo: barktopus
to: John Beckett
from: Geo
date: 2005-11-21 21:05:28
subject: Re: Greetings From Idiot America

From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:1423o197grtvtol6hm5k18omunn95edafl{at}4ax.com...

> I was just playing Geo's thought experiment and remarking that IF the
> universe frequently did unpredictable things (e.g. 2 cups of water
> sometimes is twice as heavy as 1 cup, and sometimes is randomly some other
> weight), then there would be very little reason to be intelligent because
> you couldn't make sense of what was going on.

I don't know why but I find the thought that random illogical things
happening to somehow be a very comforting thought. You know? Sort of like
well ok we don't have to figure out everything because some things just
happen.

Geo.

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