Bye-bye beastie ...

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Sep 28 06:30:09 PDT 2005


Hi All, 

This is really an interesting discussion.
I actually appreciate it.
But, it doesn't belong here.   
Start a list or forum somewhere and let us all know about it
so those who would like to continue can without tieing up
the FreeBSD questions list.

////jerry

> 
> > taking the risk of starting the 'ultimate-religion-flame-war' (please not!)... ;) religion (of any
> > kind!) limits the scope of people's thoughts and makes them more easy to manipulate,
> 
> what patch is this, please tell me it name and location in ports,
> because I want to make sure its removed from my system at immediately.
> 
> As a Zen Buddhist, I will loosely quote a Chinese Ch'an (Zen) Master
> Rinzai who has said that religion is toilet paper, you use it to clean
> yourself up then you thow it away.
> 
> ergo, the purpose is not to contend with others but to wipe your own
> ass ... so please get on with the task. If you have wiped then flush
> ... not talk.
> 
> >  not even mentioning what religion can do to the 'evolution' of mankind (yes, even in these
> > days (->the creationists in the usa for example)).
> 
> they don't even come close to be representative of religion in a global context.
> 
> > the world would be a better place if we all would get rid of this. adding all the (positive and
> > negative) ways in which religion has affected history, you end up with more bad than good.
> 
> Is this another master plan for everyone.
> 
> > one of the main problems is, rules that may have been necessary and good at some
> > times, aren't reflected and reconsidered because they are now 'send by god' and therefore
> > untouchable. this creates some really weird (and sometimes brutal) situations.
> 
> are you trying to say that religious proclaimations utilize God as a
> self-referential way of imputing authority to the statement within the
> statement; if you are then that is an interesting comment on how
> authority and legitimation are used tactically to create consent or
> consensus ... but then again this is not only true of religion but is
> part of socio-cultural dynamics in terms of the use of authoritative
> declarations ... It would be useful to apply it to the windows/linux
> debate
> 
> > but this is probably offtopic...
> 
> no ... FreeBSD has an extensive array of functions and capabilities
> and so I am sure that this one is in there somewhere .... please check
> the code.
> 
> 
> albertfuller
> 
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