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
<
BONeal@cornerstonehome.com> 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-----
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Nathan
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:29 AM
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> 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
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