From: John Casey (jmcasey@pacific.net.sg)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 15:17:31 MST
exactly. because at the bottom of it all, we're still monkeys.
>Chen Yixiong, Eric <cyixiong@yahoo.com> Wrote:
>
> >"Why do we live, and continue living?"
>
>Because human beings prefer life rather than death.
>Why?
>Because that's the way our brains are built?
>Why?
>Because we inherited the characteristic.
>Why?
>Because those who had a different opinion about the value of
>life did not have any descendents.
>
> >why do we get up in the morning?
>
>Because we want to. Again we could make a sequence of "why"
>questions but such sequences can never be infinitely long; eventually
>you will come to "why is there something rather than nothing?" and
>of course nobody can ever answer that, but I don't need to because
>the fact remains that I do want to get up in the morning. I don't need
>to know why.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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