Computers: August 2007 Archives
A lot of people do not know that MacBooks are naturally occurring. But they are, so I thought I'd let everyone know.
Everything physical is, by definition, naturally occurring, unless you believe in direct supernatural intervention in the physical world. I don't know how life began -- and neither does anyone else -- but we have a pretty good idea of how everything else happened, how we got here, and so on.
Man is naturally occurring. Everything man touches is naturally occurring. Man, trees, many metals, and so on would not exist without bacteria and plants and other things that create us and our environment. Life forms create oxygen from their environment. Life forms create spider webs from their environment. Life forms creare ... MacBooks from their environment. And they are as natural as anything else. There's no rational distinction between "natural" and "man-made" unless you are going to re-define "natural" to mean "not-man-made," but then we need another word for "natural," and besides, there's very little reason to such segregation. It seems to me either extremely and falsely arrogant, or extremely and falsely humble, depending on how you look at it. But it's extreme, and it's false.
Everything physical is, by definition, naturally occurring, unless you believe in direct supernatural intervention in the physical world. I don't know how life began -- and neither does anyone else -- but we have a pretty good idea of how everything else happened, how we got here, and so on.
Man is naturally occurring. Everything man touches is naturally occurring. Man, trees, many metals, and so on would not exist without bacteria and plants and other things that create us and our environment. Life forms create oxygen from their environment. Life forms create spider webs from their environment. Life forms creare ... MacBooks from their environment. And they are as natural as anything else. There's no rational distinction between "natural" and "man-made" unless you are going to re-define "natural" to mean "not-man-made," but then we need another word for "natural," and besides, there's very little reason to such segregation. It seems to me either extremely and falsely arrogant, or extremely and falsely humble, depending on how you look at it. But it's extreme, and it's false.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
