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- Message-ID: <FNORD-L%93012711255165@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:05:42 EST
- Sender: New Ways of Thinking List <FNORD-L@UBVM.BITNET>
- From: General Mills <LIBALP@EMUVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: A true heart steps forward..
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:49:34 -0500 from <LESSER@FAXON.COM>
- Lines: 34
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- >here. I want you to feel good. I want to make you happy. Take my hand,
- >dearest one.
- >
- >Now, take a warm bath. Let me towel you off. There. Do you want a cookie?
- >Ok, let's get you tucked into bed... Where's your favorite book? Feel better
- >now, Melanie? Ok, you can turn off the light now... Sweet dreams.
-
- Must we witness your goofy teenage fantasies, Lesser?
- Stop being such a GUY for chrissakes.
-
- And from CYNOVY:
- >Or maybe a New Idea isn't something that can be manufactured, and maybe
- >it's not recognizable to those who have toiled forever in old ideas,
- >including this one, and maybe it's not much of an idea at all, as the
- >idea of "idea" is pretty old, unless one keeps to a strict etymology,
- >in which case we should define our terms. Yup, that's it, I'd say.
- >Nutshelled.
-
- As we say: It's important to examine one's method and motivations.
- And then there's also such a thing as having one's head up one's ass.
- Thing is, some people read "FNORD" and sign up. Others read "New Ways of
- Thinking" and sign up. Members of both groups come to suspect that they
- have signed up for the wrong reason, and begin to wish they belonged to
- the other group. Both are wrong. How can I make blanket statements like
- that without regard for semantic hipness? If someone cared maybe I wouldn't.
- We speak German, but not E-Prime. Alas, alas.
-
- >Just sign me,
- >"The Butterfly Tends to Think of the Caterpillar As Snackfood"
-
- As does the Rabid Mutant Wart-Turkey from Planet X.
-
- Reacting,
- gm
-