On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:55:10 +0100, Cardinal Chunder
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> wrote:
>Kimba W, Lion wrote:
>> "Zippy P" <zippyp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Occam's razor sez:
>>>
>>> Which is more likely,
>>>
>>> 1) There are supernatural things like ESP, out of body stuff, ghosts,
>>> mindreading, instrumental telecommunications, remote viewing, voices
on tape
>>> and aliens, and we all just choose not to believe in them because
we're all
>>> afraid of knowing the real truth.
>>>
>>> OR
>>>
>>> 2) You're a kook
>>
>> "The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human
mind to
>> correlate all its contents. The sciences, each straining in its own
>> direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing
together
>> of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality
>> that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly
>> light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
>> --H.P.
Lovecraft
>>
>> Occam's Razor is just an excuse to cuddle up with your preconceived
notions
>> and not think about things.
--me
>
>There is a difference between thinking about things and imagining things.
Yet, without imagination, we'd still be in the Stone Age.
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