----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: RANT & Three basic
realms
> Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
> >
> > I may be dumb about this but to me all of your descriptions are connotative.
> > How about a good denotative definition or two?
> [snip]
> >
> > I may be dumb about this but to me all of your descriptions are connotative.
> > How about a good denotative definition or two?
> [snip]
Brad answered:
> I would argue that there is no such thing as a denotative definition
> simpliciter.
> I would argue that there is no such thing as a denotative definition
> simpliciter.
So much for that attempt at some kind of
clarity. Also 400 years of poetry
just went down the drain. Here is
something that came to me today.
From the Internet:
French Intellectuals to be Deployed to
Afghanistan
> to Convince Taliban
> of Non-Existence
> of God:
>
>
> The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday
> when the Allies
> revealed plans to airdrop a platoon
> of crack French existentialist philosophers into the
> country to destroy
> the morale of Taliban zealots by
> proving the non-existence of God.
>
> Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade,
> or "Black Berets",
> will be parachuted into the combat
> zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential
> anomie among the
> enemy. Hardened by numerous
> intellectual battles fought during their long
> occupation of Paris' Left
> Bank, their first action will be to
> establish a number of pavement cafes at strategic
> points near the fro! nt
> lines.
>
> There, they will drink coffee and talk animatedly
> about the absurd
> nature of life and man's lonely
> isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied
> by a number of
> heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends
> who will further spread dismay by sticking their
> tongues in the
> philosophers' ears every five minutes while
> looking remote and unattainable to everyone else.
>
> Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke
> yesterday of his
> confidence in the success of their
> mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense
> and unshaven young
> man in a black pullover,
> gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are
> caught in a logical
> fallacy of the most ridiculous sort There
> is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out
> of my ear, Juliet
> darling, I am talking."
>
> ! Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on
> man's nauseating
> freedom of action with special
> reference to the work of Foucault and the films of
> Alfred Hitchcock.
> However, humanitarian agencies have
> been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane,
> pointing out that the
> effects of passive smoking
> from the Frenchmen's' endless Gitanes could wreak a
> terrible toll on
> civilians in the area.
>
> Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may
> also contribute to
> the effort by dropping Professor
> Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to propagate his
> non-deistic theory of
> the creation of the universe.
>
> Other tactics to demonstrate the non-existence of
> God will include the
> dropping of leaflets pointing out
> the fact that Michael Jackson has a new album out
> and Jesse Helms has
> not died y! et. This is only one of
> several Psy-Ops operations mounted by the Allies.
> to Convince Taliban
> of Non-Existence
> of God:
>
>
> The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday
> when the Allies
> revealed plans to airdrop a platoon
> of crack French existentialist philosophers into the
> country to destroy
> the morale of Taliban zealots by
> proving the non-existence of God.
>
> Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade,
> or "Black Berets",
> will be parachuted into the combat
> zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential
> anomie among the
> enemy. Hardened by numerous
> intellectual battles fought during their long
> occupation of Paris' Left
> Bank, their first action will be to
> establish a number of pavement cafes at strategic
> points near the fro! nt
> lines.
>
> There, they will drink coffee and talk animatedly
> about the absurd
> nature of life and man's lonely
> isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied
> by a number of
> heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends
> who will further spread dismay by sticking their
> tongues in the
> philosophers' ears every five minutes while
> looking remote and unattainable to everyone else.
>
> Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke
> yesterday of his
> confidence in the success of their
> mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense
> and unshaven young
> man in a black pullover,
> gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are
> caught in a logical
> fallacy of the most ridiculous sort There
> is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out
> of my ear, Juliet
> darling, I am talking."
>
> ! Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on
> man's nauseating
> freedom of action with special
> reference to the work of Foucault and the films of
> Alfred Hitchcock.
> However, humanitarian agencies have
> been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane,
> pointing out that the
> effects of passive smoking
> from the Frenchmen's' endless Gitanes could wreak a
> terrible toll on
> civilians in the area.
>
> Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may
> also contribute to
> the effort by dropping Professor
> Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to propagate his
> non-deistic theory of
> the creation of the universe.
>
> Other tactics to demonstrate the non-existence of
> God will include the
> dropping of leaflets pointing out
> the fact that Michael Jackson has a new album out
> and Jesse Helms has
> not died y! et. This is only one of
> several Psy-Ops operations mounted by the Allies.
anonymous:
Maybe we should add a few FW members to that list
as well.
REH
