Look, I wasn't taking my minister seriously. I don't even know if I have a soul, let alone if animals do. If I get to Heaven, the first thing I'll do is whistle, and hopefully all of the fidos and puss-cats I've ever owned will come bounding out and we'll all have a great walk together!
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: Re: You are naive (was Re: [Futurework] Walmart and the American dream > If you plant a living human like a plant we appear too dumb to survive. > Apparently we are too dumb to understand what you are saying. What is > consciousness to one is instinct to another. We are all connected. > > Ray Evans Harrell > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:08 PM > Subject: Re: You are naive (was Re: [Futurework] Walmart and the American > dream > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Ed Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>From: Ray Evans Harrell > > >> > > >>>From: Ed Weick > > >>> > > >>>Experiments did not end with the death of the twins. Dissection of the > > >>>corpses for final medical analysis is well documented by Nyiszli > > >>>and by Lifton. (http://www.candles-museum.com/mengele.htm) > > >>> > > >>> Can you imagine anything more bizarre? > > >>> > > >>> Ed > > >> > > >> Yes, > > >> > > >> Animal experimentation. > > >> > > >> REH > > > > > >Ah yes, but a church minister I know says that animals don't have souls, > > >so it's probably OK. > > > > > >Ed > > > > So this ties in quite nicely with that reporter's incredulity that > > pleasure centres could exist in the brains of "lower" animals and > > probably have for 200 million years. Apparently the popular view > > is that we act from the experience of desires and pleasures, but > > all other animals are robots whose instincts are like the programming > > of a soulless machine. A smooth continuum from unconscious to > > conscious must present too many inconvenient implications to be > > countenanced... > > > > -Pete > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
