Re: oldest American skull found!

From: Tom McDonald (tmcdonald2672_at_nohormelcharter.net)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:34:14 -0500

Eric Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:03:21 GMT, Philip Deitiker
> <Donevenask@worlnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> says in
>>news:00ikm0159fpjp2g2hv9irlec7laqk3iqka@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>>Tom, Thank you for inviting me to enter a long,
>>>labyrinthine and ultimately futile discussion.
>>
>>ROFL.
>>
>>
>>>>continuing to declare the problem terminally intractable is
>>>>a comforting position for them to take. For the rest of
>>>>us, hope and being open to the opportune moment is better.
>>>
>>>For my part, recognising that a problem is fundamentally
>>>insoluble means that a great deal of effort is not
>>>wastefully expended.
>>
>>That must mean something somewhere.
>
>
>
> If you know from the beginning its a hopeless cause you don't waste
> time trying to achieve it.

Eric,

        If you give up before you start, you fulfill your own prophecy.
  I'm a bit surprised that you don't think that there is always
at least a small possibility that a cause might be solvable.

        I don't advocate beating one's head against a wall. However,
remaining inviting and willing to become engaged with those who
disagree with one is the best way I know of to eventually wind
up with a good outcome. Well, one can invade the other folks
with overwhelming military force; that works well, too. Look
how good things are in Iraq. 

-- 
Tom McDonald
http://webpages.charter.net/tsmac/tmcdonald2672/

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