-> I wish I knew when it was going to be on.  I could film it for you
-> and send you the tape
Well, the latest word is that it AINT gonna be on.  The powers that be
have decided that bestiality is not the message they wanna send....
 ^..^
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 160 PHILOSOPHY    Ref: EGL00104 Date: 12/16/97
From: KEITH KNAPP                                           Time: 08:08pm
\/To: FRANK MASINGILL                                     (Read 3 times)
Subj: Limit to Greed

FM>   I assume in your reference to "ancient astronauts" you are referring to 
th
FM>great little book by a former colleague, William H. Stiebing, Jr. entitled
FM>_Ancient Astronauts Cosmic Collisions and Other Popular Theories About 
Man's
FM>Past_ in which he did a marvelous job of setting down both the useful
FM>"conscious" myths of a Plato as well as the modern "myths" of a Daniken.  
He
FM>wrote it in response to the questions his students in history brought to 
him
FM>when they were exposed to such stuff as the tales of ancient astronauts.
FM>Stiebing covered the waterfront pretty thoroughly.
Thanks for the ref.  Gotta read it.
FM>   I think history has enough "mystery" about it already without our
FM>introducing gratuitous "second realities" for titilation.  You and I, 
however
FM>shall probably never succeed in saving any literalist from the trouble of
FM>searching the terrain of some "Mount Arriat" for the (smile) remains of 
he
FM>"ark!!"
Yep.  An admirable urge, in a way, but before someone goes to all that
trouble, they first should decide if the lost object in question is
even vaguely plausible.
FM>   Only recently someone here seriously informed me of his skepticism that
FM>"Moses" ever really (chuckle) "talked to a thornbush!!!"
Yep.  There probably was a guy who led the Jews out of Egypt, but he
wasn't necessarily named Moses, he certainly couldn't have written
about his own death, and just because something nasty happened in
Egypt about that time, doesn't mean that God did it.
It's funny how the past is a kind of Rorschach inkblot, and every
time a story is told, it gets a little more archetypal and a little
less factual.
FM>   But then, is it difficult to imagine a Sam Donaldson asking a biblical
FM>scholar if he thought "Moses really existed!!"  Not for me.  I've seen too
FM>many similar questions!!
Yeah, it's almost the wrong question to ask.  I think a better
question is, What actually occurred?
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