From: "Mark Hessey" 

Frankly Randall, I enjoy reading various passages from the Bible from time
to time, and it is a "good" book, it is chock full of  ideas that
can help you shape your outlook on life and it provides tons of ideas for
use in shaping sermons that do reflect current conditions - but I have
serious misgivings about their literal application in today's world.

Taking the bouncing bridges from another thread as an example, suppose I
give you directions to my house that include taking Bridge B, 50 years
later Bridge B bounces itself into oblivion - do I continue to tell people
to get to my house via Bridge B? Nope. Do I refer to the prior existence of
Bridge A when updating directions to them? Yup. If someone I've never given
directions to in the past asks me, do I mention Bridge A? Nope - irrelevant
that it was once there to that person. This new person is still going to
get here, but he'll do it using modern day conveyances.

Mark



Randall Parker  wrote in message
news:MPG.133f19a0f72ee49398a120{at}news.barkto.com...
| Mark,
|
| But consider the side-effects: People stop doing maintenance. People |
stop do additions. No new buildings unless you happen to have inherited |
it and have a clear claim to it stretching back generations. |
| Its a recipe for greatly slowed economic development no matter how you | cut it.
|
| In , the sagacious mark{at}hessey.com Mark
Hessey | perspicated:
| > That's covered Randall, supposedly the value of the land _decreases_
each
| > year until it's worth nothing in year 50, so you're really not giving
| > anything up  But if year 45 comes along and you're just plain fed up
with
| > paying $20/hour to get the harvest in, you can sell it to someone else
for
| > 5/50ths of your original buy price and walk away from it early.
| >

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