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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Re: More questions for Suzanne or other pro-life parent
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.003756.18293@noao.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:37:56 GMT
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- From article <1992Aug22.002739.10757@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis):
- > In article <1992Aug21.234441.17118@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- > }From article by gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis):
- > }> In article forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach):
- > }>
- > }> } Handicaps CAN be risen above.
- > }>
- > }> I can fully agree with that, but that's a teeny bit different from
- > }> "the world is what you make it," which I disagreed with...
- > }
- > }Not much different that I can see, at all.
- >
- > Perhaps you and I disagree on the meaning of the term "world" when we
- > speak of it. I look on the "world" as being a set of circumstances which
- > are external to me and which I can only influence, nor create. My life,
- > however, is virtually up to me to make something out of -- I can mold
- > it into whatever (there are some restrictions) I wish, limited mostly
- > by my guts and/or imagination.
- >
- > I think most christian theologians would probably use the terms in
- > much the same way, asserting that the "world" was made by God, and,
- > if they also believe in a free will, would assert that humans were
- > pretty much free to make what they will with their own lives, but they
- > cannot alter the world. (Unless they have faith, we've all heard what
- > that can do to mountains :^)
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- Hey, my point exactly! :-) :-) I would speculate to say that
- Mother Teresa lives in a far more beautiful world than say, Steve Novak.
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- Suzanne.
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