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- From: tucker@maestro.mitre.org (William Tucker)
- Subject: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.231207.24782@linus.mitre.org>
- Keywords: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought
- Sender: tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker)
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:12:07 GMT
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- It was written unto the net:
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- >>The movie is based on the book "The Turning Point" by Fritjof Capra.
- >>Let me tell you all... I will be RUSHING to the bookstore to buy
- >>it first thing in the morning!
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- >Why not pick up something rational instead? Perhaps Atlas Shrugged by
- >Ayn Rand or a REAL physics book.
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- Oh dear. I was completely on your side until you mentioned Rand.
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- Your illuminating Response WAS:
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- Choosing 'sides' is the mark of the mark. Open wide.
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- Thyagi
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- I (William Tucker) have to admit:
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- That single sentence is probably the most astute, telling statement
- of this whole "debate." In the true spirit of "us against them,"
- we all end up wrestling with phantasmal pigs and complaining about
- "their" grunts.
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- Wm T.
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- ps. I'm doin' me 'omewerk on Physics, as it twere.
- Apparently quarks do settle something in the
- Zoo of physics. However is an electon a cloud,
- a wave, or a particle? ;-) (to be continued.)
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- .standard disclaimer
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