From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Alan Williams: Paradigms of Dissonance (was Re: Faggots) 
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:22:58 GMT


In article <vanyel.717718342@camelot>, vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams) writes:
|> In <1992Sep24.005107.3002@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
 
|> That doesn't sound like a discussion; it sounds like thought control.

People who think other people are controlling 
their thoughts generally benefit from drugs
designed to control schitzophrenia.

|> Jess, that's *all* I do.  My brain doesn't shut off.

Wasn't that a problem with Volvos a while back?
 
|> As it is here, I think. . . .

vrrrrooooooooom!  vrrrrrooooooooom!

|> Thus far, you've given me no reason to believe that your viewpoint bears
|> greater weight over the viewpoints of others in this newsgroup.  Those
|> motssers who've taken time to discuss matters with me, rather than resort
|> to flames when I disagree, bear more weight in my evaluation process.

So.... A turd in a lacy basket vs good nutrition in a
hard-to-open package, presentation *is* everything,
isn`t it.  Coffee-table books should be taken for what
they are.

|> and now, though we don't agree on all things, we can
|> at least defend each other's right to expression here.

Child, only your sysop can take away your "right" to 
expression.  Check out those meds yet?

|> The evidence suggests, to me at least, that you'd rather indulge in your
|> pop psychology than listen to what I have to say

From a man who just defined himself by psychological
tests!

|> --that my words are
|> automatically discounted because they come from someone whom you don't
|> believe thinks clearly enough.  I call that a value judgement that most
|> certainly isn't in my favor, and I think it's the kind of judgement that
|> suggests you may have your own prejudices (though I don't know what they
|> would be).

It is the (re-)dawning of the age of.....  Oh!  
Where was I?  Oh yea, skipping down to the Low-IQ
association to get my taxes and estate planning done!
Stop prejudging bus drivers who can't drive!  Chefs
who can't cook!  Everyone IS EQUAL!  Don't hate me
because I'm *beautiful*!  I feel the spinning of the
windmills of my mind!  I hire everybody - discriminating
against someone because they don't have the skill to
do the task is just so.... prejudicial!
  
|> Someone once told Justin that he has to think of what he wants to say as
|> the equivalent of saying this in a room filled with 70,000 people.  I
|> disagree with this analogy, if for no other reason than because I believe
|> our behavior *always* changes in a face-to-face encounter.

Vrrrroooooom!  ::ping:: ::ping:: ::chaCHUNK::

|> Nor am I the only person who notices this clinquishness.  Check back with
|> the posts spreading from the root thread, and you will see that others have
|> commented on the right of any one person (or group of people) to determine
|> what may or may not be posted here. 

BWAAAAAAAAK! 
 
|> And who, then, is to say that no one has misinterpreted people like Justin
|> Sullivan and Bob Sarver?  And when you think about it, who's to say you
|> haven't even misinterpreted (heaven forbid) me?

AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

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