I'll say it again, so it's not a "I said this and I am right" thing. Let's drop this. Thanks, Dan Lund To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. -Friedrich Nietzsche On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I am very late to this, but what the hey. > "... you cannot deny the possibility. " > I also can not deny the possibility that nothing exists, the sky is not > blue, and the desk I sit in front of four 14 hours a day is just a > deranged dream, etc.. Possibility is always possible. Probability is > another matter. > As for some grand conspiracy, I find it highly unlikely, not mater what > the conspiracy. Real conspiracies, big and small, consist of a few > people agreeing to act in a particular manner. For example the whole > FOSS community is a conspiracy against proprietary pay software. But > when big things happen it is often because a few key, and/or many > lesser, unrelated people, are acting in out of self interest. One ant > does not know what the other ant is doing, but they act as a group > because each ant knows that if they follow the trail there is a reward. > So all the ants follow the trail. It is just that simple there is no > great hive mind controlling them, just each ant looking out for it's own > survival in the best way it knows how. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of > Nathan > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:29 AM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: OT: remember > > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 05:31:49 Technomage Hawke wrote: >> its just that I get rather a bit irked when someone comes out with a >> new conspiracy theory. call it an exposed nerve for me. > > I tend to call it an inability to believe our government is capable of > doing > such a thing. Whether you believe it or not, you cannot deny the > possibility. > After all, if would _not_ be the first time in this countries > presidential > history they allowed us to be attacked to provoke the people into > approval of > a war. Conspiracy theories may be wack job ideas, but complete dismissal > of > some one elses views is just as dangerous. > > nathan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss