Bye-bye beastie ...

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Wed Sep 28 14:15:57 PDT 2005



Right back at ya Jerry:


                                                 .:\:/:.
              +-------------------+             .:\:\:/:/:.
              |   PLEASE DO NOT   |            :.:\:\:/:/:.:
              |  FEED THE TROLLS  |           :=.' -   - '.=:
              |                   |           '=(\ 9   9 /)='
              |   Thank you,      |              (  (_)  )
              |       Management  |              /`-vvv-'\
              +-------------------+             /         \
                      |  |        @@@          / /|,,,,,|\ \
                      |  |        @@@         /_//  /^\  \\_\
        @x@@x@        |  |         |/         WW(  (   )  )WW
        \||||/        |  |        \|           __\,,\ /,,/__
         \||/         |  |         |      jgs (______Y______)
     /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

I seem to recall you expressing appreciation for this
sentiment. ;-)

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jerry
>McAllister
>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:30 AM
>To: 2albertfuller at gmail.com
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ...
>
>
>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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