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I'm with you on this one Grant. Some people seem to view memes like gods or
intelligent beings from another planet. This in my opinion is humbug. By
the way I like your approach to use this list as a way to test your own
theory. I did not understand that some objected to this. I think its great,
and shows that you want to think on your own.
Joachim
At 07:54 AM 1/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>We're born into a world already
>>chalk full of ideas, all of which want to seduce us and propagate in our
>>consciousness,
>
>I don't believe ideas "want" to do anything. It's like saying gold and
>silver "want" to become money. The way people react to these things can
>be good or bad, but that is not the fault of the gold or silver. It's
>what people use them for that makes them anything other than the dirt
>under our feet. Ideas are the same. They just lie there and wait for
>people to pick them up. What people do with them is a function of each
>person rather than the idea itself.
>
>Grant
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