DB> On 02-12-98 David Martorana wrote to Day Brown...
 DM> ... My notion that we are at best, just a throw away tool of some
 DM> unknowable agenda; and at worst, of no universal meaning at all, keeps
 DM> me somewhat slow to search beyond the "FUN" of it. My only glint of any
 DM> "what can be" is if we escape from nature- and that might be a deadly
 DM> act!
 DB> Well, not entirely without purpose.  What would an entertainment for God
 DB> be worth? He gets to watch it happen don't he? All it costs him is the
 DB> effort to maintain the virtual reality machinery that projects all of
 DB> this into three dimensional space. Your life may not be worth much, but
 DB> it is worth something.
   I hear the echo of Plato in that last sentence, Day, and am not surprised.
Man may, indeed, be worth a "little" something (a Platonic expression couched
in the irony that perhaps his sophistic opponents could recognize).  
   Remember Pogo???  I can imagine HIM saying, well, "I ain't much but I'm 
ll
I got!!!"
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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