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allow me to take the liberty....
Sunday, 04-Apr-99 05:25:06
to carriage return this nice thread to the left.
it is getting all squished up on the right side of my screen.
on a higher (or lower) level of abstraction to this discussion, i think i see some common background among the participants....there are overt and covert allusions to discoridanism (meaning some or all of you have read from a certin very fun set of texts)...i also see ideas that seem to have come from a very nice book "godel, escher, bach" which i have just begun to read...oh yes, and then friend goth, fellow fan of digital hardcore...how is it that we all have gravitated together as if by fate?
about philosophers: I think (was it w_b?) has issues with the lesser philosophers...there are certainly greats and the average just as in science. Some will spend their whole lives hashing out the details of a scientific (or philosophical) framework determined by the revolutionary work of one individual. Philosophers tend to obfusicate their arguments with rich academiaese...so sometimes it can be hard to distinguish the good from the bad, but i think the greats certainly stand out. (ala hofsteader...)
other miscallany:
you will all enjoy the new film "the matrix" it is a perversely fun example of our favorite game of reality cracking. I was hooting like a hyena while some poor soul behind me was having a nervous breakdown as she confronted a rudely cyberpunk film out of context with her reality...she at first whispered "no, no, this is bad" and then lounder "no, i won't do it" and finally ran out of the theater covering her ears.
no exageration. a truly exhilerating piece of art.
i must say it is truly a pleasure to witness the debates on this discussion board. every time i drop in for a visit i think how fortunate i was to land on fravia's site those years ago...and remember how that first night i finally pulled away from the screen so physically drained and noticed that the sun had risen and i had been leaning nose to the monitor in the dark for 7 hours straight...and how i had barely dented his site.
anyhow, enough rambling
cheers!
-CG
curious george