From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com> To: <virus@lucifer.com> Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:35:37 -0700 Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> You must be alluding to something I'm not familiar with, but I really wanted
> the answer to the question who are you speaking for. Virians? Empiricists?
> All people? You and your eyelash mites?
>
I think I am on pretty solid ground in asserting that Virians are
indeed, as a class, empiricists. This is supposedly an atheistic
religion; how can ya hav va heaven in the absence uv va god (and
don't gimme the standard dodge about "heaven on earth", either;
that has nothing to do with the instantiation of a particular
metaphysical belief system, to the exclusion of all others, as Virion
Dogma). The evidence of our senses is a commonality with which
we can intersubjectively agree; the moment you begin favoring one
interpretation of that evidence over another, you sow the seeds of
schism.
>
> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of Joe E. Dees
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 5:26 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
>
>
> From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:14:12 -0700
> Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > Who are you speaking for when you say "we"?
> >
> > Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> > Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> > Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> > Of Joe E. Dees
> > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 4:57 PM
> > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > Subject: Re: virus: missa viriis
> >
> >
> > From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
> > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Subject: Re: virus: missa viriis
> > Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:45:00 -0700
> > Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> >
> > > Joe wrote:
> > >
> > > >Any rituals we craft should be empirically based.
> > >
> > > Whyfore?
> > >
> > > -Tim
> > >
> > >
> > Because we tend to view metaphysical constructs as myopizing
> > memetraps.
> >
> >
> Then you view skypies as wind beneath your wings?
>
>
>