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Re: Stephen_Dedalus' banality astounds me.

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From: EnlightenMe
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:18
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'foolsrushin' wrote:
> I quote something I wrote in another thread. As regards Lennon and
> McCartney, I think they and the other Beatles did their best work
> together. In a similar way, Jagger and Richards have given us together
> what I am sure they could not have done separately, some stunning
> lyrics and associated music, and almost certainly they could not have
> done it without the Rolling Stones! AxBxC... - not A+B+C... - a product
> rather than a simple sum.

That's teamwork, for you!  I seem to get more done when I'm working
with other people, and usually that produces higher quality results,
too!

> 'Bertrand Russell was a logician. What he meant was a bit ironic, I
> suppose. The atheist was obsessesively preoccupied with the Christain's
> claims! He felt, I think, that they needed each other, but that he
> himself needed neither of them!  As regards the age of the earth, so
> long as pointer readings continue to work reliably (Rutherford), it
> does not matter if the universe is creating itself constantly to agree
> with our readings. If your aunt has the illusion she took tea at the
> Ritz last Friday and you know for sure the universe did not then exist,
> either you or she ought to be locked up - unless you understand
> Russell's sense of fun!'  [And John's sense of fun! Ed.]
> --
> 'foolsrushin.'

Hmm... Russell... somewhere in the house I have a book called "Why I Am
Not a Christian"; it's a book of essays he wrote.  I have all these
intellectual books but I haven't been reading them.  I'm so lazy
sometimes.

I'll sell my soul to whoever can get me to snap out of my laziness.  :)
 (All devils excluded, that is....)

-Stacey
http://seeking-enlightenment.blogspot.com
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