>>>I don't believe in free will.
>>
>>Neither do I. Of course, I also don't believe in NO free will.
>
>Eh? Sorry, I'm floundering. Is that Zen?
Well, it's kind of like the time a Zen master burst into a monk's
apartment while he was eating rice and said, "Stop eating right now, or
I will kill you! But if you stop eating, I will also kill you!" What did
the monk do?
>
>>> I think the only stance for the true
>>>memeticist is to be non-prescritive, to play down their emotional
>>>reaction
>>>to particular memes, and to admit that s/he is nothing more than memes
>>>and
>>>ideas, which will try and gain neural resource from other memes/ideas.
>>
>>I covered this in the book, which you should read. Apathy allows bad
>>memes to win.
>
>No such thing as bad. No such thing as good. "Good" means "agrees with
>my/our memes" and "bad" means "disagrees with my/our memes". The test
>goes:
>
>Think of a thought you think is bad that you agree with
Strangling XYZ.
>; think of a thought
>you think is good, that you don't agree with.
Marrying my girlfriend.
> Didn't think you could.
Level 3 is all about being able to judge the merit of memes regardless
of how much dissonance they create with your dominant mindset.
>
>Who's your UK distributor... ISBN codes etc? Go on. If there isn't
>one/some,
>can we arrange a direct snailmail-for-cash thing? There y'go. All I
>want to
>do is fight you, and you've made another sale. Mind you, I might be
>even
>MORE hostile afterwards than I am now...
Both of my books, as well as many of the other books discussed on this
list, are available worldwide through the Amazon.Com Memetics Bookstore
at http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/books.htm
>
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA USA
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Do you know what a "meme" is? http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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