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From: erlsmith@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: a few questions...? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 20:20:00 EDT
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uokvax!erlsmith    Apr 27 01:20:00 1984


(buy him books, send him to school, and all he does is play on the
 damn computer....)

please be patient, my apple has trouble with upper case.

and i hope i'm putting this in the right place, but i've got a few
questions i need answered and like the man said when you need help
fuck the manual, go ask someone.

ok, what happened to streaking?  why do authors write sequels?
does anyone really know how to use a slide rule, be honest?
will lennon & mccartney be considered the shelly and keats of our
time? was poe really that weird or was it he was just another junkie?
why else would he have written quote the raven nevermore.... 
where have all the flowers gone? why do homo sapiens have pubic
hairs? what really are joy sticks....? are bio-chip based robots
going to replace what we consider to be man? how come when most
people talk of time travel, they say you can go into the past
but not the future, because it hasn't happened yet.. or has it? 
this one really puzzles me. lets consider a number line representing
what we normally consider time. with a positive/negative x and y
coordinate, with the origin constantly shifting forward "time".
why would it be so impossible to venture off of the path that the
time is traveling on? would the grandfather paradox hold? (if i
went back in time and killed my grandfather - could i do it, or
would the constraints of time prohibit me from doing so?)
how about holmes? he snorted coke.. could he have really been
that smart? was freud really a sex craved maniac? why don't we
study the works of virgil in school anymore? (i had to take latin
to find out about him).  
knowing that we are the outcropping of the baby boom, why are
there 30 some odd new stains of social diseases?  is dnd really
devil worshiping?  what are blacks holes,(in reality)? "and not
a hooker on 39th street." ergonomics has been around for an
awful long time.. so how come people are just coming up with these
ergonomically designed chairs... and one last one (yea..yea..yea)
is there a philosophy of sex? or does that topic revert back to
psychology and sociology?

questionably yours,

  eric l. smith

  !ctvax!uokvax!erlsmith

p.s. does life really exist after college?