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[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:21:49 +1000
Nikolai <psalmos at swissinfo.org> wrote:

> John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > Where did this thread come from?
>  From "Ubuntu user technical support list". As you can see by the 
> subject line, the thread got out of hand and somebody asked to take it 
> to sounder.

<sardonic>

So we now have a potentially highly technical discussion, with all kinds
of epistemological, philosophical and theological implications ;-) Of
course, nobody has defined the word "God" .... and neither shall I presume
to do so ;-)  That would be too technical, not to mention presumptuous !

Is this, therefore, "offtopic for offtopic" ? Should it return to the list
for "technical support" ?

Shall we discuss the implications of Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" and
his imaginative characterisation of the "rebel anarchist believer" Ivan?

Ah, no - that would be in the realm of "art" ...

</sardonic>

> 
> > How does it relate to Ubuntu?
> 
> I suppose through "...Linux for human beings" line of thought.

"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"   - Terentius

( translation: "I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me"


	"And what is so strange, and what would be so marvellous, is not
that God actually exists,but that such an idea - the idea of the necessity
of God - should have entered the head of such a savage and vicious animal
as man, so holy is it, so moving and so wise, and so much does it redound
to man's honour" - the brother Ivan,  in "The Brothers Karamasov" by
Dostoevsky

	"Stupidity is brief and artless, but intelligence shifts and
shuffles and hides itself" - Ivan , (ibid)


All flames to the usual address ;-)

Peter