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- From: 471-1@air.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Constructive Posts and Bells of Hope
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.003758.7721@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:37:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.062158.16993@pmafire.inel.gov> russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown) writes:
- >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
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >>hostility and/or violence.
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >This reflects a unique level of certainty, perhaps inclined to dogmatic.
- >What is the source of this wisdom? Holy writ, perhaps?
- >
- >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..."
- >
- >Perhaps the _inferred_ hostility (or violence...on Usenet?) is a
- >visceral reaction to the incondite.
-
- To make it a little more clear as to what I mean by ALWAYS...
- the above statement applies to actions and ideas that are known
- to the public in general. I am not talking about some guy or gal
- sitting in a closet practicing peace thoughts.
-
- Which is poorly constructed Usenet or my unique level of certainty?
-
- I realize that it is quite common to site sources for such claims,
- however in this case of clairvoyance I stand with my claim, and
- leave it to you to refute.
-
-
- --
- Take 'er easy.... Shane
- .watch out for the lightning (a large-scale high-tension natural electric
- discharge in the atmosphere)......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ..informal... a sudden usually improbable stroke of fortune.......
-