[url=http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/transAdapt/taoTeChing.html]Stephen Mitchell[/url] said:

When some folks are called saints, other folks think of themselves as sinners. When one fellow is called wise, others imagine that there is something they need to know. The Master doesn't have these categories; for her, no one is wise or holy; thus, in her presence everyone feels at home.

If you want to look at it that way, also see "Leecher and Creator."

Also, no one's interested in math anymore.  I had to find a way protest. 

Yep, I know.  Actually, I just wanted to know, specifically, why Bia considers the title to be more harmful than good.  =P

Well of course they aren't needed. Life is full of things of stuff we don't need, but we like having them anyways

And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others.

These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time they found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that the creatures were filled with disgust and shame.

And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn't high enough.

So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too.

And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be.

The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn't really be said to have any purpose at all.

The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else.

“[…] Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? […]�?

Art has no function. It is not necessary. It has nothing to do with what anyone wants you to do or wants it to be, nothing but you and itself. The work generates itself and ideas and progress and learning come out of doing the work in a particular way. Creative art is a learning process for the artist and not a description of what is already known. An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. The work needs concentration and one is often exhausted by it. It takes so much effort just to begin and although going on is mostly a pleasure it is also a great effort. The only thing for a creative artist to do is to do his chosen work. But really there is no choice. Nobody chooses. The only thing left for a creative artist to do is to do his chosen work in spite of everything and regardless of anything because when living draws to its end there are no excuses he can make to himself or to anyone else for not having done it. Either he did do it or he did not do it and very often he did not. Alas very often he did not.

Demitri Maximoff said, November 15, 2007, 12:38:01 pm

Ryanide
See Narayan Maxime's WIP topic for further information.

Tee Hee Hee/hjk

He give's feedback,codes A.I and also coded my terry's A.I + he's a all around nice guy.

+1 to teehee.

Thank you so much guys 

All done. Even though! Teehee has something slightly unnerving from time to time. And I still haven't tried Terry.

All includes Ryanide, DemonicDrPhil, Tee Hee Hee/hjk and--ah, Bia.

So, either you drop my title, for the contributor description doesn't fit my current situation, or you change the description and drop the present tense of the verb and change it to perfect present tense.

So... your turn now, Sepp.