Darren New wrote:
>> One more thing there are things that only God can provide and yes 
>> somehow it shapes your perception of "spirituality, sense of
>> beauty, or their knowledge of good and evil"... Makes them better... :-)
> 
> Hmmm... Hard to understand what you mean without the punctuation, but 
> I'm inclined to disagree.
> 

Think it is, again, a category error. I value "my" TV more than TVs in 
general. In a sense, having a "personal" connection to the universe, 
instead of just being something "in it", would make the experience "more 
valuable" in the same way. Logic tends to dash this perception to 
pieces, in that, if you are being honest, any TV that is identical to 
your own would be just the same, presuming someone snuck into your 
house, removed your old one, then replaced it with an identical one. You 
likely wouldn't even notice the difference, unless the volume was higher 
or lower than you remembered. Yet, there is still an entirely 
"artificial" value to the idea that you "own", or are "connected to" 
something else. This is what religion "gives" people. And its the 
hardest thing to give up, because they can't imagine making a similar 
connection with something else, which has the same "value" as they have 
placed on this equally artificial connection they feel they have already.

So, yes, there is a "value" that come with it, which you don't have 
without it. But, I am betting that, if you could do the same thing with 
it, as you could with the TV (while sadly impractical), they wouldn't 
know the difference either.

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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