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   From: CuAu@telus.net   
      
   Billy,   
   With all due respect, Philosophy transcends Science. Your question about the   
   five nearest stars and the planets that surround them is nothing more than   
   mental masturbation - an expanded geology question. You might as well have   
   asked the capitol of Uraguay: It doesn't matter.   
   "palmer.william"  wrote in message   
   news:124Ab.32944$tQ4.27140@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com...   
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   >  "Gene Royer"  wrote in message   
   >  news:vsqdbo8csmv3e0@corp.supernews.com...   
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   >  > "Gaiawar"  wrote in message   
   >  > The Greeks had a plethora of words for love, and I won't bore you with   
   >  them.   
   >  > But when it boils down to the final point where language fails our   
   > ability   
   >  > to express, we are limited to the weak human pronouncements that Love   
   >  > fulfills law, and God is love.  That is as far as our language can take   
   >  us.   
   >  > And we are left with it yet to ponder:  How can that be?   
   >   
   >  I'll tell you how it can be.   It can be for the same   
   > reason you seem to overflow with wisdom without   
   > being the least aware of the nature of even the   
   > physical world around you.    Er, out of the billions   
   > of stars in this galaxy alone, name the five stars   
   > nearest earth and tell me how many planets each   
   > one has.   You can't do it, Geno.   Maybe one-tenth   
   > of one-percent  of the populartion of this planet can   
   > name the five  nearest stars (out of many billions,   
   > remember) but  no one knows at  this time how many   
   > planets surround those stars.   You are sitting here   
   > smugly on the outskirts of the Milky Way--okay, point   
   > to the center.  NOW!.   You don't have a clue, do you?   
   > And you have no clue about the nature of the  center   
   > either.  So exactly how is it that retarded denizens of a   
   > hick planet are going to be able to answer profound   
   > questions regarding the meaning of life, love, etc.?   
   > They aren't, Geno.   All they can do is masticate their   
   > gums the way you and Gaiawar are doing.   
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   > the alt.genius.bill-palmer.whee   
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