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- From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.062158.16993@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 06:21:58 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Constructive Posts and Bells of Hope
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- References: <1993Jan19.185249.15530@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1993Jan19.195019.21459@vexcel.com> <1993Jan20.222126.19053@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.222126.19053@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> 471-1@sleet.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield) writes:
- >Actions and ideas of peace and peacful means are ALWAYS meet with
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >hostility and/or violence.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- This reflects a unique level of certainty, perhaps inclined to dogmatic.
- What is the source of this wisdom? Holy writ, perhaps?
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- Please remember the thoughts of George Santayana, who said, "Skepticism
- is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too
- soon or to the first comer..."
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- Perhaps the _inferred_ hostility (or violence...on Usenet?) is a
- visceral reaction to the incondite.
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