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- From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
- Subject: Re: Yahoo!
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:31:39 GMT
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- In article <C05ntt.1sB@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- > I have been officially permitted by the SPIRIT OF RAND to wish all
- >serious philosophers a Happy New Year. Be sure to drink only an objectively
- >proper amount, commit only an objective amount of foolish behavior in front of
- >people you must face tomorrow, and make only objective promises about your
- >reformed character in the new year. Think sober thoughts. Of course,
- >subjectivists can never be certain that the new year will really arrive. "It's
- >unnerved me dreadfully," says Barbara Stanwyck." On the other hand, only
- >Objectivists recognize their right to be happy in the new year.
- >
- > YAHOO!
- >
- >================================================================================
- > "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- >you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- >tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- > AYN RAND
- >================================================================================
- >Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
- >================================================================================
-
- In the name of Aristotle and Spinoza, Our Teachers Cantor and Frege
- and their good disciples Russell, Zermelo, and Quine (and other
- objective thinkers), I reciprocate your greeting, concur in your
- counsel of sobriety, and offer prayers (in the direction of the
- non-existent top of the iterative hierarchy) for the salvation of your
- benighted soul and the enlightenment of your confused mind (two
- different ways of saying the same thing!). Oh yes, and some of the
- rest of us do recognize our right to (try to) be happy.
-
-
- --
- The opinions expressed | --Sincerely,
- above are not the "official" | M. Randall Holmes
- opinions of any person | Math. Dept., Boise State Univ.
- or institution. | holmes@opal.idbsu.edu
-