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- From: noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer)
- Subject: Re: Male Men Bashers
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:16:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.041630.5040@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan20.014940.17978@hellgate.utah.edu> <93020.1332133399390@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <C16BFs.74I@javelin.sim.es.com>
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- In article <C16BFs.74I@javelin.sim.es.com> biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel) writes:
- ><3399390@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >
- >>Someone (The Great Name?) offered as a definition of feminism "that set of
- >>beliefs which is held by 95% of all feminists". This needs some work. I
- >>call myself a feminist, so I'll start. This is a list of SOME of my beliefs.
- >>For fun, I'll start with:
- >
- >>0. The earth goes around the sun.
- >
- >Naive physics; it is computationally convenient to assume this, but the
- >general theory of relativity permits us to view the universe as revolving
- >around the earth, with perfectly computable and reasonable results.
-
- HeHe. Actually, the first statement is, for the most part, false even
- using the computationally convenient data and theories. Pick a point
- in space at random. The probability is that the point will be quite
- distant from our galaxy. From most of these points, the earth and sun
- are not discernable, and, therefore, are only possible--they do not,
- irrefutably, exist. From a few closer points the earth and sun are
- discernably zig-zagging through space, with the sun doing little of the
- zigging and zagging. However, from these points, the earth does not go
- around the sun in complete circles, it just zigs and zags. From other
- close points, it appears as though the sun and earth are in a race,
- with the earth passing the sun and visa versa about once a year.
- From still other close points they earth and sun are just trading
- places, left and right, right and left, up and down, down and up, and
- would seem to be exhibiting this behavior deemed "goes around."
-
- Someone said it.... It's relative.
-
- [more musings deleted]
-
- >>Am I lying about my beliefs?
- >
- >Probably.
-
- Surely.
-
- Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM
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