Re: virus: Re: Good Times

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:19:17 -0600 (CST)


On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Ken Pantheists wrote:

> Hakeeb Wrote:
>
> People are basically sheep.
>
> I feel used even writing this up but to paraphrase Dennis Miller :
> "I'm too much of a showbiz whore" to resist.
> ________________________________________________________
>
> I know what you mean.
>
> Memetics has that weird effect of allowing you to examine the compnents
> of your "personality" only to discover that most of them are not
> "yours".
>
> it's a disturbingly selfish/self destroying undertaking.
>
> Ego-freshener

One of the best assumptions I added to my personal psychology model
(several years ago) is:

"Question the origin of my thoughts. Just because I experience them does
not mean I created them!"

This is wonderful for expurgating all sorts of irrational
self-destructive garbage before it ever hits action, speech, and/or
writing. Efficiency isn't 100%, but it's better than 0%.

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