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From: cjr@unirot.UUCP (Charles Riordan)
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Subject: Re: Contempt prior to Investigation
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 11:57:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 11:57:41 1986
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Summary: You can't tell with some people

In article <386@lanl.ARPA>, jlg@lanl.ARPA (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

And to think, I thought you were such a great musical talent and stuff.
I have most of your albums, I think. Obviously, man, you are one of the
deluded bunch. You and your Western dogmatic friends can keep busy building
computer networks, that BREAK and fall apart because deep down, when you
get to the core level, you find that you really have no knowledge at all
about what goes on in the universe. Just because you can make a car doesn't
mean you know the real meaning of existence of cars. While you and your
Western buddies are building computer networks, out of stuff who's existence
you don't know the meaning and purpose of, the rest of us will be
communicating without your physical hardware, through brainwave transmission.
The great Eastern mystics didn't NEED to build computer networks and cellular
telephones out of inhuman plastic and metal. They communicated with their
minds. We can do it too, if we learn to free ourselves from the shackels of
our Western mind, to allow our Eastern mind to run free. You just don't want
to believe that.

I guess when Peter Wolf left your band, it just blew your mind, man. Bummer.
Too bad, I really liked the way you played guitar. Have you ever jammed
with Jerry? Hey, man, I've seen you play with wireless guitar systems! What
do you think makes those work? No wires, dude, just the spirit of your mind
controling the vibrations of your guitar and transmitting cosmic messages
to your amplifier. At least that's how Pete explained it to me.