From: Randal A. Koene (rak@minduploading.org)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 05:55:11 MST
Hi Samantha,
I have nothing in particular against your post - except to point out the
misattribution, since the part you replied to was already double-quoted
and in fact was written by Eugene, not by myself. See my original post for
my reply to Eugene's comment.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>
> Randal A. Koene wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> >>The idea that human thinking is low grade is an artifact of primitive
> >>religious superstition and statist disinformation. It is human thinking
> >>that has gotten us as far as we have, so it obviously must be pretty
> >>damn good.
> >>
>
>
> That it has worked thus far to the degree it has says nothing
> about whether it is adequate to the problems of today much less
> of tomorrow. It is certainly easily demonstrable that it has
> quite a few serious limitations. And it doesn't have a damn
> thing to do with either religion or statism to note that this is so.
>
>
> I could sort of see the religion angle, espcially as it has
>
> infected a lot of discussion in philosophy with Abasolutes.
> But what the heck does statism have to do with it?
>
> - samantha
>
>
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