From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #267 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, October 14 2001 Volume 01 : Number 267 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Re: audio weenie / XTC [steve ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:18:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: audio weenie / XTC >> How so? Bizarre compared to what? What's the frame of reference? On Sunday, October 14, 2001, at 01:06 AM, Dan Sallitt wrote: > Bizarre compared to the existence of God. I'm not trying to make a > proof or anything - just making the emotional argument that > consciousness is an uncanny thing, and sort of opens the door to other > uncanny thoughts. - Dan Perhaps organic life naturally tends toward higher forms of organization. - - Steve __________ Last week the International Monetary Fund, which has no political stake in the debate over Social Security, told the prosaic truth: "the long-term financing problems of Social Security are not large" and "could be addressed through relatively small adjustments in the program's parameters." - Paul Krugman ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #267 *******************************