Re: virus: Re: virus-digest V1 #116
Raimo Kivinen (paoraki8@info2.info.tampere.fi)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:00:39 +0200
At 14:53 19.12.1996 +0000, Ken Pantheists wrote:
>XYZ wrote:
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>Do UFO's exist? Does God exist? They can be beautiful but that depends
>on what side of the fence you are on.
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>Good. Now you are using your memetic faculties.
>
>I don't mean to sound patronizing XYZ, but that is precisely what the
>site of inquiry is... where is the fence and how do you determine its
>sides?
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>
>You have mistakingly translated the word aesthetic to mean "beauty".
>
>Aesthetic means "about life".
>
>Our ideas, personas, concepts of self and other, representations of
>ourselves to ourselves and representations of ourselves to others.. the
>permutations go on and on.
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>
>You wrote:
>If it is a science, then beauty has nothing to do with it. Science isn't
>supposed to be art. Ever notice how pure logic is cold and unfeeling?
>That is because it is supposed to be.
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>I think cold and unfeeling are words that describe a persona. Or as the
>ancient greeks would call it, "a mask".
>
>Your final word on this subject is very interesting:
>"That is because it is supposed to be."
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>What a soul-killing phrase.
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>Do you use it often? I'll bet you make a lot of points with it.
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>(I'm not making a joke here) That really works.
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>.......um...... I have nothing to say in response to that.
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>Now, if you wanted to look at your belief in that... then i think a
>conversation can happen.
>
>For example: Would you like to talk about a fantasy land where logic is
>not supposed to be cold and unfeeling? And science is beauty?
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>Regards
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