virus: Lack of imagination error

Reed Konsler (konsler@ascat.harvard.edu)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:05:51 -0500

>Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:41:06 EST
>From: MemeLab@aol.com
>Subject: Re: virus: Levels
>
>Jake: incomprehensibility error.

Reed: lack of imagination error.

><< Being a slave to <reason> leads inevitably to delusion.>>

>The meaning that you find in these words, if any, is most certainly one that
>we will never share. You must share a different understanding of what some
>or all of the words "slave", "reason", "inevitable", and "delusion", mean
>than any that I am familiar with. Or if this is idiom, or metaphor, it isn't
>one that I "get". This sentence came through as complete gibberish to me. It
>is possible that I don't really even care to know what it means to you, but I
>thought it would be polite to at least let you know that you made no sense.

Maybe you should think about how it might be true? I can only conclude that you aren't trying hard enough, becuase your posts lead me to deduce that you have the requisite intelligence.

>Perhaps you are expressing some personal anguish that you have had in the
>past, in dealing with your own justificational system? I dunno.

I say what I think. I don't feel much need to justify it. I know.

Reed


  Reed Konsler                        konsler@ascat.harvard.edu
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