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- From: mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu (M. Lloyd)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Understanding
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 21:33:38 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- References: <92357.110706SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1992Dec23.144201.6988@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> <92359.013136SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >I'd venture to guess that it is easier to define yourself in opposition
- >to the principle source of attributable external pain than it is to
- >take responsibility for yourself in the way neccessary to have a self
- >definition founded in your inherentency.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Blissful. Presumably a mix of "inerrancy" and "heritage" - the deep
- truth (ha!) of tradition, what Bruce Cockburn called The Gospel Of
- Bondage (and no, he didn't mean BDSM, more's the pity). What *would*
- fit there? "Inherentness"? "Inherency"? "Inherent existential nature"?
-
- (A good point, btw, but to say so distracts from the joyous linguistic
- mudbath.)
-
- >(The Usage Inquisition is going to get me for this one...)
-
- Aha! Nobody expects ....
-
- (Our chief weapon is surprise; surprise and a dictionary ...)
-
- hugs
- Mike, only slightly drunk
- --
- Mike Lloyd, B0/1 h- f- t w- g+ k+ s m- e? | "Bloody nose and burning eyes
- Retro-hippy, music nut, bi and | Raised in laughter to the skies"
- backrubber of devotion | - Bruce Cockburn
- --The end of confusion is the beginning of death--
-