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From: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Where do you find the future? (was Re: Omni-Americans)
Message-ID: <747@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 14:30:56 GMT
References: <2885@sfsup.UUCP> <2762@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <2923@sfsup.UUCP> <27471@linus.UUCP> <1290@uop.edu>
Reply-To: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
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Keywords: The Mind Mirror.  Self Knowledge.

In article <1290@uop.edu> todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
>In article <27471@linus.UUCP>, bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) writes:
>> Timothy Leary did some interesting work on personality and behavior,

> [ some Leary-bashing deleted ]

>> He has now begun
>> to popularize this work through the medium of the personal computer.
>
>Anything to make a buck, why not a book as well??

Leary's drug phase in the 60's was not exactly an oportunistic career move.
Quite the opposite, he sacrificed a promising career for something he believed 
in.  The environment that T.L. helped create in the 60's was the opposite of
"Anything to make a buck".  That phrase properly belongs to the 80's and the
environment Ronald "Just say no" Reagan helped to create.
>
>> He is as provocative and fresh as ever.  Try the Mind Mirror, and
>> meet your future self.
>
>Yeah, I always wanted to meet my future self, defined by a binary stucture
>put together by a man who messed up a great deal of people by advocating
>they use such fantasticly healthy things like LSD-25.

As I remember it, Leary explained to people that the "set and setting" were
very important factors in an LSD-25 experience.  He did not advocate taking
LSD-25 for thrills.

>Good choice, if I had been here at school the night he was here to promote
>himself, I think I would have at least burned some of his books, just
>to make him mad, then I would have asked him to pay my cousin's rehab bill
>for the time he spent recovering from drug experimentation.
>(yes this was due to the environment that T.L. helped create in the '60's)

I doubt your cousin is recovering from LSD experimentation.  In fact, I
doubt he ever took it at all.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  T.L. never had much
good to say about heroin or quaaludes or the drugs being abused today. LSD
is not addictive.  Nor has it the potential for profit making that todays
street drugs have.

>Oh but you can't really tell adults what to do and what not to do, so Tim
>is off the hook right? 

I also must assume your cousin is not an adult, or, at least, that he bears
no responsibility for his drug use in your eyes.

This should probably be retitled and directed to different news groups.
Anyone know which? (we don't get 'alt' groups here)
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