--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Great de-lurk, Bob. Deserves a reply. > > --- In [email protected], Bob Price <bobpriced@> wrote: <snip> > > To name just a few highlights the MZ's CV includes: > > > > 1. His UC was confirmed by the Rish himself, in front of a > > large group of witnesses, and then, in a court of law, declared > > invalid. > > Cool. I'd love to hear details. The very concept of > a US court of law declaring a state of consciousness > invalid makes my curiosity glands salivate. I mean, > that's up there with China declaring reincarnation > illegal, unless they approve it first.
The court didn't declare his UC invalid, MMY did, in an audiotape that was played for the court. <snip> > I fully admit to ideas reincarnating from time to time > in my mind. It's not "from time to time," it's *all* the time. > However, every time I give voice to them, > it's a new voice. Not once on this forum have I inten- > tionally set out to rewrite something I've written > before. No need to set out intentionally to rewrite your ideas. You don't *have* that many, and they've worn deep grooves in your brain by now. They take up all the available space; there's no room for any new ones. You don't have any choice but to recycle the old ones. The very thought of that would never occur > to me, because ideas do. That some of those ideas may > deal with the subject of previous ideas I do not deny. > But in another sense they're original every time. In a *very* limited sense. You put different clothing on them, but what's underneath doesn't change. > > So holy jamoli we finally get a real celebrity and you and > > others turn your formidable guns toward scaring him off. > > That was never my intention, as I suspect even MZ knows. > I was just trying to clue him in a little to the saloon > nature of this place, and that expecting people to react > to him the way they might have in the past just wasn't > likely to fly here. Naah. He was invading what you perceive to be your territory, and you felt the need to assert alpha male status to keep him in his place. Didn't work. He laughed at you. He's still got his teeth.
