Re: Atlantean
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 10, 2004, 11:11 |
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Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> In a message dated 2004:01:09 08:34:33 PM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:
>
> >From Hanuman Zhang's profile:
> >
> >> "A constellation is basially a conical chunk of stars with the apex at
> >Earth with an arbitrary space angle." - Andreas Johansson
> >
> >Not that I have anything against it, but may I ask why you added this to
> >your signature? If it has any deep cosmic or comic significance, it's
> certainly
> >not there on my volition!
>
> Does everything hafta have significance?
Of course not. It just seems the other stuff in your signature has, or is at
least intended to have.
> Also I like the poeticism of
> your statement... and it does point out - subtly - our human species tendency
> to
> "universalize" our puny lil MonkeyBrained Concepts into Cosmic
> "Truth(s)"....
I gues you could see it that way. It is, tangentially, from a certain PoV,
quite ironic that being likened to a monkey is an insult to one's
intelligence - after all, the dumbest monkey is brighter than practically
everything we know of!
Andreas