++> Inspired by a Frank Masingill response to Day Brown                      
        Msg #825,
 ++> on  "Small absurdities"
 
 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 
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 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.
 
 FM> I hear the echo of Plato in that last sentence, Day, and am not
 FM> surprised. Man may, indeed, be worth a "little" something (a
 FM> Platonic expression couched in the irony that perhaps his sophistic
 FM> opponents could recognize).
 
     ....it WAS inferred that man *MIGHT* have some "WORTH" as a tool
     to some unknowable agenda. As we all die and cease to be, only
     an afterlife might support any extended value; and the evidence
     is lean for such a dimension awaiting us. Though I fully appreciate
     your complex of semi-satisfied dilemma between "fundamentalisms"
     and "atheisms", you certainly have never ventured any notions to
     support a "man-beyond"  as important to ***ANYTHING***. My assertion
     that the search for any "alL abouT" CANNOT with honesty, be conducted
     for anything but fun, seems the only valid game in town (this side
     of playing mind games with ourselves)!!! .......my ears/eyes are
     open for any alternate "make-better-sense" options.
 
 FM> Remember Pogo???  I can imagine HIM saying, well, "I ain't much
 FM> but I'm all.....
 
   Pogo does not/did not add clarity to "anything" ...except as "FUN" !!!
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