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- From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:52:35 GMT
- Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
- Message-ID: <122420167@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- References: <1992Dec28.045418.8905@rock.concert.net>
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- In alt.callahans, darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys) writes:
-
- >
- > "I dunno. Maybe I'm too old to take part in the Place- maybe I shot my wad in
- > looking for it, and so am unable to interact with the folks herein.
-
- Maybe you are just being tendentious.
-
- >
- > "I dunno. But it seems to me that you all _live_ here. The same names come
- > up time and time again- and I jst don't get it.
-
- Some are bored. Some are hooked. Some just like it.
-
- I am none of the above.
-
- >
- > "Trust me: The whole world is out there, and the only reason it doesn't
- > work as well as the Place is because nobody's FORCED it to yet. The world
- > DOES work in a rational manner around _me_; I demand that it does so.
-
- Right. Perhaps you should try entering an environment that is a
- little less vulnerable to your influence. Your rhetoric has
- a ring of EXTREME naivete. One wonders if Reginald Denny could
- have "demanded that the world around him work in a rational manner"
- during the LA riots.
- >
- > "You can do the same."
-
- To a limited extent, yes.
-
- >
- > "I recognize myself in all of you- and what I don't pity, I welcome. You
- > folks have been kind to me, and I thank you for it. Remember, though-
- > Callahans's is where you find it. Ya just gotta LOOK for it.
-
- Callahans is a usenet news group. Nothing more.
-
-
- doug
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