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> Tim Rhodes wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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>> > For example for
>> > all the people who are attacking the validity of the senses do
>> they
>> > really LIVE by that belief? When such an individual attempts to
>> cross a
>> > busy street do they say: Oh I can just ignore that oncoming truck
>> and
>> > walk right out into the street because I know that my senses are
>> just
>> > fooling me! , or ,do they instead look both ways, make sure the
>> coast is
>> > clear and then TRUSTING THIER SENSES walk to the other side of the
>>
>> > street?
>>
>> I'm not sure how things work in your city, but in mine I've found
>> that
>> quite often I can walk into the street when a truck is coming /and
>> the
>> truck will stop rather than hit me/!!!
>>
>
> If that's the truth I best get in my words edgewise before you end up
> being roadkill! The law of conservation of momentum is not one I'd be
> inclined to challange!
>
>> I am not a victum of my senses like you, Nateman. I *can* affect
>> reality
>> (in small ways), you see. And I'm still alive to prove it.
>>
>> Give it a try some time.
>>
>> -Prof. Tim
>
> Do you stop being a "victum" of the "sense of vision after going
> blind?
>
> The Nateman