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From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Enter at your own risk
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 21:55:17 GMT
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In article <3dp44o$236@cliff.island.net> mplain@port.island.net (mark plain) writes:
>As a Conscientious Objective Rational Empiricist I would like to
>shine some brazen common sense on the subject of Philosophy.
>I have noticed in the past that this subject has been awash in
>academic jargon so I wrote this in PLAIN english.
>
>Matter
>
>Matter is either eternal or it sprang from nothingness,
>regardless of when or if the big bang happened.
>
>Time
>
>Since motion exists-it has always existed, therefore, time is
>eternal.
>
>Space
>
>You can never conceptualize of an impregnable wall at the edge of
>the universe, therefore, the universe is infinite.
>
My God! It's a Presocratic philosophers alive and well here on the net.
Quick, catch him and let's see if he thinks that everything is made of
earth, air, water, or fire...or some other Urstoff!

(Shining light on philosophy requires knowing approximately where it is at
any given moment.)

-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Department of Psychology            cgreen@vm1.yorku.ca
York University 
North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
