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   From: donlhumphries@bigpond.com   
      
   "TheInquirer"  wrote in message   
   news:kbc16u$qro$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 25/12/2012 3:07 AM, DonH wrote:   
   >   
   >>     The average fish in the sea   
   >   
   >   
   > how can the fish know if there is water in the sea?   
   >   
   > what if some fishes think it's ether,   
   >  some fishes think it's alcohol,   
   >  some fishes think it's oil,   
   >  some fishes think it's mercury,   
   >  some fishes think it's coffee,   
   >  some fishes think it's tea,   
   >  some fishes think it's coca cola,   
   > and some fishes think all these are wrong there are no   
   > liquids unless there is "evidence" for it, and started   
   > theories of hot air filling up their environment, and   
   > whenever other fish question their theories, they are   
   > falsely labeled as ignorant "liquidists"?   
   >   
   > how do you think you can help these fishes to get out   
   > of the mess?   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > I ask, becos I'm curious.   
   >   
   > Just answer the damn question, not the questioner!  Don't   
   > presume.  My personal matters/beliefs are none of your   
   > business.  I ask, you answer.  If you think my questions   
   > are stupid, you have already proven that you are stupid,   
   > not me.  If you don't know the answer, can you please   
   > "pass" to more capable person(s) to answer?   
      
   # We humans are trapped in the tautological environment of our five senses.   
       There may be parallel universes, but we have no knowledge of them.   
       The fish accept their own habitat - except those who ventured onto land,   
   and became amphibians, then reptiles, birds, and mammals.   
       We land-humans carry with us the relics of our marine origin: our eyes   
   need to blink and have eyelids, to let us keep seeing.  Our lungs need   
   moisture; our bodies need a rigid skeleton to support our weight.  Our blood   
   has the same saline content of earlier oceans.   
       But our too-large brain tends to think too much, and search for the   
   meaning of meaning, when it is not dogmatically stuck in sacred texts.   
       Only the empirical tests of the Scientific Method keep us relatively   
   sane.   
       But we are breeding ourselves to extinction.  The population boom will   
   collapse.   
       The Rise, and Fall, of the Mad Ape, will be spectacular, but brief.   
       Planet Earth will go on - without us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)