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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.sci
Subject: Re: Contempt prior to Investigation
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 04:03:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 04:03:07 1986
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In article <386@lanl.ARPA> jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>In article <362@unirot.UUCP> cjr@unirot.UUCP (Charles Riordan) writes:
>>Speaking of which, while you guys are de-luding yourselves with your
>>dogmatic Western science, I think I'll be re-luding myself, if you know
>>what I mean. Pete and my other friend Bobby are coming over to watch
>>the tape of the Dead's New Year's show on my new VCR, and the only way
>>I can cope with both the incredible deepness of the Dead and the heavy
>>trips Pete lays on me is to get my brain a little loosened up to free
>>my Eastern mind from the bonds of my Western mind's dogmatic thinking.
>>Heavy stuff, man.
>
>I wonder if friend Pete could have built a VCR with all his 'in depth'
>knowledge of the 'truth'.  Certainly no eastern religeon that I'm aware of
>would have been able to understand the real world well enough to contruct
>computer networks, and I wouldn't be stuck listening to all these
>groundless claims.  Hmm...maybe you're right after all, if science hadn't
>been so successful, I wouldn't have to hear from you.
>
>J. Giles
>Los Alamos

    I don't understand it all myself Jimmy, but my friend Matt has been
telling me about the importance of letting free my Western Mind.
Wow! Heavy vibes from this dude. He's like from the East himself, and
tells me that the Eastern Mind runs around loose there like the neihbor's
dog, and makes all kinda messes like New York. Boy what a mess
that place is. Bad trip. Worse than drugs. Ever take one of ther subways to
Piscat--Pissthat--anyway? Ugh. The Western Mind is different, man.
Like, gag me with a cofunctor, I think it's like how we naturally think
-- just let your Natural Western Mind run free and its like math and
science, man. Before you know out, you can buy a house on the moon.
And there will be trilllyuns of trilllyunaires all over the solar system.
I know this is true, my friend Matt showed it to me on net.space.  Boy,
those guys have grate Western Minds! And what about the greatest President
since Warren Galadriel Harding?

   Oh I see you are from Los Alamos. Does that mean you get to play
with nucleear bombs? Wow. My friend Matt won't even let me play with
matches. Do you get to star wars too? Just like inthe movie. Light
sabers are really kean-o neat. My favorite scene in the movie is when
Darth Vader and Oh-be-one were fiting. It was sad when he died. But they
brought his spirit back at the end. I thought that was good.

    Then there is the Never Mind, the Re Mind, and even the Under Mind.
My Eastern Mind aint ready for it all just yet!  Gotta split, NOVAs on.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
"Last week in a dream I gave a fellow my shirt buttons to differentiate
and the fellow ran away with them." -- Engels