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About LinkBacksAntonio, I don't know that either of these examples would qualify as "death wishes". I guess I was referring to Midgley with his tetra-ethyl and Cohen with the offer to eat plutonium (!) as examples that we only become judge, jury and executioner when arrogance (what I call ego) takes over. I don't think that bowing to the inevitability of death is a death wish. I think choosing how we die is a fundamental right and responsibility. I would put Einstein and Feynman in this category.
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- 03-14-2006 02:26 PM #116th degree Black Belt
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hmmm....I seem to lack clarity today. The first is only interesting if it is the beginning of something. The first is not interesting if it is the only - Djanet Sears
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In other words, they were just exercising their given human gift (privilege?) of free will?
Originally Posted by harmonygirl Time independence: [∂E(g)]˛=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c˛
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free will is not necessarily death wish I think so. What do you think?
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I won't know until the time I am exercising mine. Originally Posted by harmonygirl Time independence: [∂E(g)]˛=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c˛
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