In some previous message, Marvin Johston wrote:
> Subject: OT again Re: food
It never ceases to amaze me how messages that start out pertaining to
classic computers can become transformed into messages about food and
then into messages pertaining to philosophy, mythology and
religion. :-)
To help steer things back on-topic, is anyone here familiar with AI
programs pertaining to mythology used on classic computers?
> I can't believe there is anybody who doesn't believe in God.
I could reply with: Hey, why'd you leave out the other half, the
Goddess that some of us also believe in? :-) ...although perhaps some
of us don't believe in a God and Goddess literally, but as balanced
manifestations of the divine. However...
Let's please not have religious warfare on this list; the world has
seen more than enough of that.
Some of us believe in some form, or forms, of deity literally; some of
us take an approach similar to that of Albert Einstein, an agnostic
approach, and just consider it all to be a mystery that we don't have
definite knowledge of, but feel that some form of deity and afterlife
exist and still value spirituality, etc. Are these not all just
different paths to the same thing, with more similarites than
differences once the dogma is stripped away? There's n benefit to
arguing or fighting over the differences... different spiritual
beliefs work for, and are helpful to, different people. Then, there
are the atheiests who don't believe in the spiritual at all - but it's
not for me to censure them for their disbelief, just as it's not right
for them to censure anyone else for their beliefs.
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Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 11:00:39 GMT