>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:27:43 -0800
>From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
>Subject: virus: Rational Levels of Material Faith in Truth
>
>Hey kids, lookie what I found in the archive! Luckily, it doesn't have a
>damn thing to do with anything that's going on on the list right
>ow. -Prof. Tim
>On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Reed Konsler wrote:
>
>> I think this ties into the discussion we were having earlier about the
>idea
>> of "Consensus Reality". Why didn't it get brought up sooner? I wonder if
>> it was becuase we were arguing while denying our baser selves? Perhaps, to
>> some extent, each of us was more interested in seeing their "meme" triumph
>> over everone elses: To stamp their seal, to evangelize, to infect. It was
>> only after we all realized that that wasn't working that we began to pause...
>
>Yes, and a good one. Maybe in future we can ivoke the "Reed Principle"
>when we start to get too tied up in ourselves and seeing our memes win.
Ack! I must be getting tired. What was I looking for, closure? Thanks for the reality check. I promise to read _Waiting for Godot_ again from cover to cover as penance.
Someday.
;-)
Reed
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