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- From: jgm@ais.org (jim miller)
- Subject: Re: Proposal
- In-Reply-To: rhodesia@wixer.gallo.org (Felix S. Cactus), from Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:21:32 GMT
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- Sender: jgm@ais.org (Jim Miller)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:27:58 GMT
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- rhodesia@wixer.gallo.org (Felix S. Cactus) writes:
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- >One day, Jim (and Ken, and Bruce, and Joel) will come to the realization
- >that following up tediously to posts by people with real lives (or putting
- >parts of those posts in one's one posts as a .signature) does not confer
- >any special power or benefit upon them.
-
-
- But then neither does responding to your posts with rational-type
- arguments, except perhaps for the self-satisfaction it may bring.
- Personally, I usually do quotes for the comedic value. As in, yes,
- this person actually wrote this, ain't he an idiot?
-
- Is anyone keeping a List? Will they please add the "Discredit the
- Opponent by Claiming a Superior Real Life" tack to the list of tried,
- and tried, and tried again r.g.m posings?
-
-
-
- Me (and Ken, and Bruce, and Joel, of course -- we do everything together)
- will be organizing the 1st International Symposium on Random Gang Group
- Delusions sometime in late March, and *included* in that will be a day
- devoted to the superiority issue. Where did that sense come from? How
- is it maintained in the face of reality? How do they manage to make their
- Usenet posts so uniformly uncritical of each other? Our hypothesis will
- be that it is a group identity process.
-
- --
- "Consider a lion, sneaking up to rip an innocent gazelle into shreds. Is
- this morally wrong, should the gazelle get a fighting chance, should we
- step in and declare that gazelles have rights too? Of course not."
- - Felix Gallo, on why mud users don't have rights
-