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For my money, Len shouldn't have to take his moods elsewhere.
What was the root of all theories before the Arabs gave us zero in the
first place?
Jack
At 08:47 AM 4/15/2003, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>I read it in Aleister Crowley a very long
>time ago although I am told it is older than
>his scribblings. First there is Nothing.
>If there is Anything besides Nothing, there is
>Everything that is. Blame Cantor for the rest.
>
>Then there is John Sowa's lattice soup
>or topic maps. If Nothing is Sacred,
>do we pray for no reason or to No Thing?
>
>Or...
>
>We make a theory, then we get a stick and
>beat other monkeys into agreeing to
>act as if that it were the truth.
>
>Or, we make a theory and act on it, and
>other monkeys imitate our actions
>because our theory makes us act in ways
>that are observably successful.
>
>Choose wisely.
>
>Yeah, len's in one of his moods. It
>is the smell of bodies rotting in the
>desert, antiquities smashed beyond
>recovery, and the gloating of the
>merely overarmed while tribal
>hatred boils back to the surface in
>the land that gave us civilization.
>It makes me nauseous. I apologize
>and will take this elsewhere.
>
>len
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Hunting [mailto:shunting@etopicality.com]
>
>[len]
> > Zero is the Root Of All Theories.
>
>Elucidate please!
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