Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:47:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: On that exam - oh delectable treat!



--- George Sherwood <search-research-AT-worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
Hold it. This wasn't George Sherwood, this was me. And
what is Emerson doing in my signature? I am a
translator. I am expensive, but I'm good. Oops, that
was a credential. Imagine, I came here with the best
intentions. 

-rutger.

> At 01:35 PM 9/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >The problem with exams is that there are answers
> that
> >fit the questions. Perhaps, we should not look at
> what
> >is required, but at what should not be allowed:
> >
> >- talking about good intentions;
> 
> Can we talk about bad intentions then? Oh, wait,
> since bad intentions are
> actually gooder than good intentions, we can't,
> because bad is actually good.
> 
> >- providing credentials as a means of arguments;
> 
> Why not know what those who claim to be N experts
> have as support, either
> as credentials or as links to what they have
> created. It is easy to see the
> destruction (which I have nothing against), but is
> anything ever created by
> them?
> 
> >- being disgusted at Lambda's disgust;
> 
> Why, bitchness is disgusting.
> 
> >- asking for moderation of the moderator in order
> for
> >"democracy" to prevail;
> 
> It wasn't democracy that people wanted.
> 
> >- preparing for the coming of the Uebermensch;
> 
> You mean I've been standing on the corner for
> nothing?
> 
> >- referring to Nietzsche.
> 
> Oh, we rarely do that anyway. What has he got to do
> with it?
> 
> >
> >-rutger.
> >
> "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are
> their creeds a disease 
> of the intellect" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
> Fav book:
> http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/
> 
> 
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