Joe Dees wrote:
>From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
>To: <virus@lucifer.com>
>Subject: RE: virus: kurzweil cuts the mustard
>Date sent: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:56:26 -0800
>Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
>
>> [RB]
>> > That is, of course, the point. It all requires faith, and to the
>> faithful,
>> > his faith always seems justified while others' seem ridiculous.
>> >
>>
>> [JD]
>> > You have faith in this, of course.
>>
>> Faith is a Level-2 vice. Level 3 transcends both faith and skepticism.
>>
>Yeah. Right. Sure. Even faith in or knowledge of systems of
>hierarchical categorization.
>> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>> http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
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Does anyone else think this is like watching a schizophrenic Brett Lane Robertson argue with himself?
Bollocks to Faith and Knowledge, I say. We're arguing ourselves into hexagram-shaped philosophical pretzels here, but there's nothing tasty or fulfilling about it. And to heck with sig files to boot, and down with ice-cream Stalinism! And kudos to the great tinkerer and Sodom, and a Happy New Year to you all.
--thee ineffable me (~kristy)