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- From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Chimpanzees/Olympic Games
- Message-ID: <40408@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 12:28:01 GMT
- References: <40075@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <92212.183055JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
- Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front
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- And lo, JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) spake unto the masses saying:
- >
- > Peeve: there are no other truly sentient species on the planet.
-
- Well, that depends on your point of view. Most people, I think, would agree
- that there is only one truly sentient species on the planet. The "humanity
- is a plague on our planet and we should all die because we're basically
- parasitic scum" faction might peeve that there are *no* truly sentient
- species on the planet. However, this argument has a basic flaw in that, if
- they are correct, then what they are saying is meaningless (by virtue of
- them not being sentient) and thus they can't be correct or, even if they
- are, they can't know it.
-
- However, if your name is John Winston, the planet is positively *hotching*
- with sentient species, most of them non-native and almost all of whom are
- his personal buddies.
-
- AntiPeeve: alt.alien.visitors - grade "A" entertainment, right up there
- with reading Erich Von Daniken and Charles Berlitz books. OoooEeeeeOoooo.
-
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- Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
- "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
-