God bless you wang for your touching message,
very short but reassuring!

Albert

-----Original Message-----
From: wang.. <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: china's blind & disabled victims of new economy


>Peter:
>
>I will keep praying for you.
>Love in Lord.
>Ren
>
>
>On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Peter Seymour wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, wang.. wrote:
>>
>> > I originally came from China and had lived there for 21 years.  Because
of
>> > Chinese language, which is fully character based or graphical, typing
was
>> > even  imposible for the blind.  You have to remember at least 5,000
>> > characters in order to read and write.  Therefore, unless a blind
person
>> > knows English or any language based on spelling, it is very difficult
for
>> > him/her to use computer though I have heard some speech softwares
support
>> > Chinese.  We should realize how lucky we are since our mother tone is
>> > English.  Tom is right.  I think we should pay more attention to those
who
>> > have not yet been trained with new technoledge since God has already
given
>> > us a great blessing in this way.
>> > Ren
>>
>> I don't think that the promotion of religious views is appropriate for
>> this list. Further, I can't imagine how God is responsible for
technology,
>> nor the phonetic Western alphabet. These are obviously products of
>> evolution, or the survival of the fittest. Consciously or unconsciously,
>> possibilities are proposed, the less useful are desposed of by the
>> selective forces, and the better solutions prosper. Experimentation,
>> selection and cross-over. That accounts for everything from language, to
>> technology, to the market, to genetics.
>>
>> God is a useless hypothesis, and has no place in discussions here.
>>
>> Thank you for keeping your irrational notions to yourself.
>>
>> Peter Seymour
>>
>>  > > > On Tue, 26 Jan
>> 1999, Tom Fowle
>> wrote: >
>> > > I believe lots of blind and otherwise disabled folks in this country
>> > > are in the same boat, but we just don't hear about em cause they'r
ehidden
>> > > away on reduced welfare in back rooms.
>> > > Tom
>> > >
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