[lit-ideas] Re: small addendum to Matrix as philosophy
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:39:56 -0800
on 11/26/04 11:29 AM, Ursula Stange at Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks, Eric. You jogged my memory.
> Richard Dawkins, it was.
> Ursula
>
> Ursula Stange wrote:
>
>> The best analogy I've ever heard to explain this comes from ***** (can't
>> remember...).
>> It points to the amazing fact that not a single one of your millions of
>> ancestors died childless.
>> That's it. That's all.
>> Ursula (almostgoodenough)
>
Dawkins, schmawkins. It was that crummy Sunday Poem of 11/7/04:
Thought two: what "lucky to be alive" really means.
Generally, of course, people are saying, "I've had a near miss,"
but one sperm and one egg,
multiplied umpteen hundred times,
is history and you, a winning bet.
David Ritchie
Associate Dean of Recycled Transmissions
Pacific Northwest Bollege
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