Posted by Andy on January 2, 2008, 7:24 am
Sorry to interrupt, this is ever so slightly almost on-topic however.
When a spammer starts digging a whole for himself with a large shovel,
then hands the keys of a large excavator to an angry mob, this is the
result:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t ˜489
300,000 page hits and counting. It just gets better and better.
You Honda drivers certainly have some wits about you :-)
Andy.
Posted by Andy on January 15, 2008, 10:25 pm
them. Extreme youth and extreme age hinder the mind, as also
too much and too little education. In short, extremes are for us as though
they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we
them.
This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge
and of absolute ignorance. We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in
uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to
any point and to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it,
it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for
us. This is our natural condition and yet most contrary to our inclination;
we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation
whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork
cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.
Let us, therefore, not look for certainty and stability. Our reason is
always deceived by fickle shadows; nothing can fix the finite between the
two Infinites, which both enclose and fly from it.
If this be well understood, I think that we shall remain at rest, each in
the state wherein nature has placed him. As this sphere which