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echo: philos
to: WILLIAM ELLIOT
from: CLARENCE HOGAN
date: 1998-01-20 19:46:00
subject: Universal Chit Chat

 -=> Quoting William Elliot to Clarence Hogan <=-
 >>> Clarence Hogan on Universal Chit Chat 
 
 WE> The above mathematicians weren't speculating, they were proving
 WE> theorems, theorems about statements that can be neither proven nor
 WE> disproved and sets of numbers impossible to compute. 
 CH> Six of one and half a dozen of the other, right?
 WE> Nope, damned if you do and damned if you don't.
 Bout covers it I reckon!  Tiz a no win situation!  :'(
   
 CH> Hummmmm, who needs the blueprint, when they have the thing itself to
 CH> go by, for if we were able to create a universe, could we not also be
 CH> able to take our own exact measurement of the one we have to
 CH> duplicate it by and not need the complete blueprints, measurements and
 CH> all? 
 
 WE> Uncertain principle prevents exact measurements.
 
 Not with a variable rule it doesn't!
 CH> Why must you insist on throwing people into the equation of the
 CH> universe?  
 
 WE> Hm, don't know of any universes without people, do you?
 Haven't been to the anti-matter universe yet to see, but will
 one day and let you know if there are anti-people there!
  
 CH> There are no 
 CH> requirements in/of the universe that there has to be life as we
 CH> know it within it, now is there?  
  
 WE> Ain't nobody that'll require nothin' of no dang universe now is there?
 
 Yup, there is somebody that is the only somebody that has requirements
 of the universe and everything in it!
 CH> man is in the universe, right?
 
 WE> What man?  Mark Twain?  Men, women and various other unrequired
 WE> animates are all there. 
 
 The small pile of dust that was made into what we call man, viz.,
 this fleshly body!  Correct, and did not the universe exist prior
 to them being made of the dust of the ground?  If so, how then did
 the universe manage to survive/exist prior to their formations?
  
 WE> You understand the mere mote of human existence.  You have no
 WE> experience with any other universes.  Your conjecture is unfounded. 
  
 CH> Could possibly be, however, did they not say the same thing of the
 CH> Wright brothers, A. G. Bell, and many others, so I guess I am in
 CH> fairly good company!  :)
  
 WE> Indeed you are in the good company of them and thousands of atheists
 WE> of whom the same has been said. 
 
 Who shall deliver me from this body of death?
 WE> Hindu mythology
 WE> declares that the god Vishnu sleeping upon the ocean of existence
 WE> dreams of innumerable Brahmas each creating his own universe. 
  
 CH> have in the past, read of this mythology and is somewhat of the
 CH> nature that I was speaking of above, is it not?  
 
 WE> What?  You are not a man dreaming of a butterfly but the butterfly
 WE> dreaming that you are a man? 
 
 What?  Beats me, it seems to have flew the coop!  :)  Does a butterfly
 know the difference between a man and a tree, or is a man just another
 tree for the butterfly to land on to rest or seek food?
 CH> ... You could never convince a fish that the world wasn't all water!
 
 WE> Yes I could but it wouldn't live to tell about it.
 Possibly not, but the fish would probably think that the water was
 just too thin at the height you had taken him cause he could no 
 longer breath, and with his dying breath he would yell at his 
 friends below in the water not to jump too high without their 
 water space suit on, right?
Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence.......
... Some things have to be believed to be seen!
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
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