BBC in-jokes are the weakest link: Goodbye.
> From: Peter Lennox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:22:40 -0000
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: MD Nose tweaking is such fun. Hello there; what's up?
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> Yes , better channelled definitely; I didn't say it was wrong, just that, like
> I said about the sci-method, people will wander round trying to pin the tail
> on a donkey. as soon as they come across something which seems to be 'true' or
> 'good' or whatever, or a method that works, etc., they will try to elevate it
> to some kind of universal status, whether the caps nearly fits, or not
> remotely. So when someone discovers the marvellous tool that is (say ) a
> hammer, they may sing it's praises as the answer to all their problems. When
> the tool fails to live up to the staus of "absolutely brilliant", and worse -
> may even prove to be capable of great harm.... there is a tendency to lose
> faith, become disenchanted, become a rabid convert and go around preaching to
> others to throw away their hammers! only then will the world be a safer
> place!.., etc.
> The problem is with people's notions of what "absolute" is, or should be The
> sad fact is that most people's "absolutes" are not fit for the purpose they
> were sold for - they should take them back to the shop, get their money back.
> In fact,
> .......absolutesaretheweakestlinkgoodbye!
>
> ppl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "PzEph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 05 January 2001 01:45
> Subject: Re: MD Nose tweaking is such fun
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>> ELEPHANT TO PETER AND ALL:
>>
>> PETER WROTE:
>> The real problem is not so much the sci-method, as with it's
>> mis-application, it's use for tasks it is not designed for.
>> In fact, the deep down problem is some folks' longing for something which
>> could be said to be real, concrete, absolute.
>>
>> ELEPHANT:
>> Sure. But do you think the longing for the absolute is somehow *wrong*? -
>> or just that it needs to be better directed, channeled? Plato would take
>> the latter veiw. Hence the forms.
>>
>>
>> -Pppzzzzzzzeeeepppppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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