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Omnivorous
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Message 19 of 62 (253740)
10-21-2005 3:56 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by NeuroCycle
10-21-2005 11:29 AM


Welcome! And consider this...
Hi, Neuro, and welcome.
Sometimes the best way to get rid of ignorance is to betray it--I've been disabused of a few outdated notions myself.
Besides, consider the difference between how much there is to know and how much any one person knows--that difference is hugely greater than the one between your store of knowledge and the most knowledgable person's...be blithe, and speak: aside from false pride, all we have to lose is our ignorance.
Also, you'll hear even the best and brightest here sometimes say the most remarkably silly things. Guaranteed.

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Omnivorous
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Message 20 of 62 (253741)
10-21-2005 4:00 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Brian
10-21-2005 3:23 PM


Re: Hi
Brian writes:
Would you like to be an admin?
*mad giggle*
But I thought all the admins were neuros?

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Omnivorous
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Message 53 of 62 (254419)
10-24-2005 9:25 AM
Reply to: Message 46 by robinrohan
10-23-2005 1:01 AM


Smilie when you say that, mister
robinrohan writes:
I sometimes have serious thoughts although admittedly those thoughts are often tinged with an element of the ridiculous. Sometimes I think there might be something deep in that dilemma, as though there were an element of the ridiculous on some fundamental level of life.
That's absurd.

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Omnivorous
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Message 59 of 62 (255208)
10-27-2005 7:51 PM
Reply to: Message 55 by robinrohan
10-24-2005 12:40 PM


Smilie Territory
robinrohan writes:
A man: Having all those powers and so forth must be very gratifying to you.
God: Oh, very. But it does go on rather. One gets certain urges. Imagine what a temptation it is to drop one dinosaur down into the middle of Piccadilly. Just one.
man: How about making things a little easier on people?
God: No chance of that, I'm afraid. Far too risky from a security point of view. One of the most important rules of the game is that everything must seem as if came about by chance. Some of you fellows have found out quite enough already. Your friend Milton, for instance [points to bookcase]. He caught on to it being a game. It's just as well he didn't catch on to who the devil was, or who he was a part of. I would have had to step in there if he had.
That's absurdist.

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