Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.shore.net!not-for-mail From: "Gary Chanson" Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth References: <3AACB567.A59B8497@Azonic.co.nz> <3AACE6CF.7F05484D@ieee.org> <0W8r6.178$fo5.14165@news.get2net.dk> <3AAD60F3.120F284A@ieee.org> <3AAE371A.2F9F596F@brazee.net> <98m43a$fe2$1@localhost.localdomain> <3AAFB378.AB166E8C@ieee.org> <98q3f1$bid$1@localhost.localdomain> <3AB0DFC6.FC100A64@ieee.org> <98sq19$ton$1@localhost.localdomain> <3AB61B58.CF536ECA@brazee.net> <3AB6273D.E6C18536@ix.netcom.com> <3AB631EE.858EC6DC@brazee.net> <3AB638AC.BA3A0132@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle Lines: 41 Organization: Starquest Systems X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: <8gzt6.324$xf1.34769@news.shore.net> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:31:01 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.192.240.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shore.net X-Trace: news.shore.net 985055364 209.192.240.183 (Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:29:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:29:24 EST Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67657 comp.lang.apl:29479 comp.lang.awk:17268 comp.lang.beta:12807 comp.lang.cobol:102956 comp.lang.dylan:24242 comp.lang.forth:78711 J Thomas wrote in message news:3AB638AC.BA3A0132@ix.netcom.com... > Howard Brazee wrote: > > > So how do we decide whether a being is sufficiently like us to be > > protected? If we can't tell the difference! > > That reminds me of an ethnic joke. I hesitate to tell it since I'm not > a Baptist. > > A river was in flood, and a man saw somebody in the river, obviously in > trouble, and managed to rescue him. The half-drowned man thanked him. > "Oh, it's just what's expected of me, I'm a christian." > "A christian? So am I." > "I'm a Baptist." > "What a coincidence! So am I!" > "I'm a Free-will Baptist." > "Yes, same here." > "A Jesus Heart Free-will Baptist." > "Me too!" > "Are you a Purity Jesus Heart Free-will Baptist?" > "No, I'm Holiness." > So he pushed him back in. > > The thing I find encouraging about the joke is the implication that if > the man hadn't been christian at all, there wouldn't have been any > problem. Well, of course! As he progressed down the list, he saw his new acquaintance as more and more of a potential threat because they had so much in common. A pagan would have been no threat at all! -- -GJC -gchanson@shore.net -Abolish Public Schools.