> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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
Puleese! don't take me too seriously! The
minister I'm talking about is allergic to hairy creatures, and, being trained in
divinity, has decreed that they do not have souls to prevent them from
getting to heaven and making him sneeze and wheeze when he gets
there.
Ed
----- 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
>
>
>
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