Re: Horses beaten, not stirred.

"John Harshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Sarah Berel-Harrop wrote:
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> > "John Harshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>>There's a difference between chemistry and biology even though it may
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> >>>difficult to identify the dividing line. I'm happy to think of biology
> >>>(life) as just a complicated form of chemistry.
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> >>Sort of sensible if you like Zen.
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> > curiosity question, how is it zen?
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> Well, it doesn appear to be a contradiction, doesn't it? The first
> sentence says that there's a difference, and the second says they're the
> same. If you meditate upon both at once you may achieve enlightenment. Mu.

yeh, but does a dog have buddha-nature.  i find
zen totally inaccessible.  i don't know why it is
so popular among westerners (compared with
other forms.  altho there seem to be also a good
number of vahajaranists).

no, i didn't see the contradiction.  if you draw the
venn diagram of what (s)he said, you have biology
as a subset of chemistry.  it doesn't say they are the
same.  the part about it being different doesn't really
make sense, though. biology will be different than the
parts of chemistry that are not involved in the study of
biology, i guess.

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All kinds of strange things go on there.
Everybody knows that if you head into
the Republic of Texas, anything can
happen.  That's why we all stay here in
Colorado.  (Kathleen Ann Goonan)

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