Bible-beater pilots

"John" wrote

We place ourselves at the level of gods, thinking that if we can reason
something out, we can then understand it and thereby bring it under our
control. That is the essence of our "sin" - we think we have a right to
ourselves and to control our destiny.

What a profoundly depressing view of one's life. We have no right to
attempt to control anything about ourselves or our destiny. And if we
attempt to do so via Man's greatest capability, the ability to reason,
then we are sinners. If I believed that I'd probably just go jump off
a bridge right now.

Fortunately, I don't believe any of it. In fact, reading it makes me
want to go out and reread Atlas Shrugged.

Jim Rosinski
N3825Q

jim rosinski wrote:

What a profoundly depressing view of one's life.

My mother believes that we inherit all our abilities and can't do any better
than our ancestors. If one of us gets training in something and turns out to be
good at it, she immediately starts trying to figure out which of our ancestors
we "got that from".

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned
no other way.

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, G.R. Patterson III wrote:



jim rosinski wrote:

What a profoundly depressing view of one's life.

My mother believes that we inherit all our abilities and can't do any better
than our ancestors. If one of us gets training in something and turns out to be
good at it, she immediately starts trying to figure out which of our ancestors
we "got that from".

Wow. So what's she going to do when one of her grandkids/great-grandkids
becomes an astronaut & goes to the Moon?

No ancestor to 'get that from'! (Well, except for whatever descendants
twelve lucky Yanks have!)

Brian.