Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 12/6/01 12:42:43 AM, anstouh@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:
>
> << Well, being is something that you do, so you could argue it is one. >>
>
>     Huh.  I think being could be something you do, but even if you're not
> doing it, you still are; seems like it could go either way.  I could do
> nothing and still be.  In fact, I'd have to do something pretty forceful in
> order not to be.  This, however, is branching on the philosophic: Is being
> passive or active or neither or both?  I'd go for the last one.
If you're being, you are doing something: you're being. Or at least, in
English you are. I'm not sure what you mean by that
passive/active/neither/both thing, though. Explain, if you would be so
kind.

Tristan

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