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   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   ansaman wrote:   
   >On 7/9/2021 11:32 AM, % wrote:   
   >> On 2021-07-09 3:12 a.m., ansaman wrote:   
   >>> On 7/8/2021 11:24 PM, % wrote:   
   >>>> On 2021-07-08 8:17 p.m., ansaman wrote:   
   >>>>> On 7/8/2021 6:34 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>>> As a matter of fact.  Civilization is an unnatural act.  That doesn't   
   >>>>>> mean that humans will stop trying to make it work.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What makes it an unnatural act? Are you saying that   
   >>>>> man is not a natural phenomena? What do you base that on?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> un natural stuff   
   >>>   
   >>> Circular argument. What is natural and what is   
   >>> unnatural? How can we tell?   
   >>>   
   >> nothing is natural   
   >   
   >Then the word has no meaning.   
      
   In the Chuang-tzu, a saying may say how words are   
   not just hot air and yet their meanings are not fixed.   
      
   The Tao Te Ching has a line or two about names.   
      
   When a meaning obtains, the spelling can be   
   compared to a butterfly net, or a lobster trap.   
      
   Being snared by a word occurs at times.   
      
   - beware of geeks bearing north ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)