People on this list in general are:
Atheists
Regular computer abusers
Understand the basic laws of physics
Consider education a vitally important aspect of growth
Can read and write well
The World in general is:
Extremely religious
Do not have computers
Do not understand any physics
Have no or very limited education
Are virtually illiterate
WE are the minority. We are the wackos of whom we speak when looked upon by
socialogists, and we are convinced that we are much closer to right than
they are.
Sodom
Chelstad, Erik wrote:
> > Open your mind to nonsense and you'll forever be at the mercy
> of charlatans.
>
> Close your mind to nonsense, however, and live in fear of the edge of
> the world.
>
> Charlatans and hoaxsters are parasites, but it seems that without the
> foolhardy and errant thought mutations that luckily appear in those
> select
> few "eccentric" types, we'd be even more mired in the status quo.
>
> OK, so I took Bob's statement out of context....just seemed like the
> thing
> to do.
>
> Actually, I thought it might function as a useful segue into a
> discussion on
> the role of "wacky" ideas in the development of human consciousness.
>
> The Big Bang, black holes, modern art, evolution, neural networks,
> internal combustion engines, sexual and racial equality, human
> flight......I
> know all of these projects had/have their share of detractors calling
> each one crazy. I'm also fairly certain that each one of these ideas
> had other miserable failures that contributed to them.
>
> I'm certainly not giving an altruistic viewpoint of giving equal merit
> to all
> ideas, but I guess I'm sort of asking the open ended question of where
> we would be without some of the crazy seeds planted in our fertile
> minds.
>
> Rambling on a bit....
>
> eEc