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[Wayne Johnson]

What you seem to desire...unless, of course, I am "mis-reading" the
text...is a Superior Expert System!

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Interstellar Communication Difficulties


> Thank G-d (just kidding), there are no devout traditional Christians here
> and
> the 3 jews on the list aren't religious either.
>
> We know the bible is bullshit. The world does show some progress since
> the scientific revolution.
>
> But folks need some lie to tell themselves, or some folks do, so its no
> wonder
> that other bullshit takes its place.
>
> So no few of this lists' subscribers have converted to new age bullshit.
>
> But this is a kind of schizophrenia because these converts do not stop
> living their life using and/or maintaining machinery which is science
which
> is NOT bullshit.
>
> So college professors claim that no proposition can be established as
> true, but they still hunt around to get a competent mechanic to maintain
> their car. This strikes me as amusing but when I have pointed the
> contradiction, they aren't having any of it. Imagine mechanics fixing a
> car whilst professing artsy-fartsy relatavism. To fix a car is to go
through
> a demaning tree of logical alternatives.
>
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>
> Actually this can be done as I have met many artful mechanicals who
> do the artsy-fartsy stuff when they are not working or when they are
> on break.
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> what i was talking about was a different subject: other folk's Otherness.
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