Subj : Re: Back again
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : RICHARD M. MEIC
Date : Mon Jul 09 2001 12:44 pm

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-> -=> RICHARD M. MEIC wrote to ALL <=-
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->  RMM> Greetings to all!
-> 
->       Hi! This echo has been fallow for quite some time...glad you 
started
->       in with something to chew on :-)

Or is that someONE to chew on?

->   I believe logic is important but not all inclusive in human 
apprehension
->   of the universe (as best as he is able)

Logic does seem to me to be the foundation of the equasion.

->   "O" is the art of Observation
-> 
->   Noted throught history as being distorted, misintrepreted, and
->   in my view a suspicious but necessary adjumct to life...

Observation cannot be ignored.  It all begins in observation.

->   , "E" is the inconstant of
->  RMM> Emotion
-> 
->  I have no idea of what you mean here.

Emotion is not a constant, it varies in aspect and degree and is 
unpredictable.  Therefore emotion must be removed.

->  RMM> 3. Aggressive posturing results in the entire message being
->  RMM> ignored by
->  RMM>    myself.
-> 
->  I'm not too clear here, but I assume that you are not fond of NON
->  aggressive posturing as well. :-)

Posturing (IMO) has a firm foundation in hubris, and is usually done in 
preparation to unnecessarily abuse another.

->  I, for example, find that I posture (when I do deem to posture), with a
->  cetain grace and elan that causes recipients to have tears well up in
->  admiration ... 

<sniffle> that was <choke> ... beautiful...
;o)

->  RMM> 5. I question everything without fear of undesirable answers.
-> 
->  Why someone would fear answers undesirable or otherwise is somewhat of 
->  a mystery to me...but ok.

Don't tell me that a man of your years has never encountered one of the 
many out there that fear some types answers.

->  RMM> 6. I attempt to tread where other minds rarely go and I fear no
->  RMM> avenue of
->  RMM>    inquiry.
-> 
->  Ah. Do you really feel that you *have* trod `where other minds rarely 
->  go'?

I stated that I "attempt" to tread where other minds rarely go.

->  That's a pretty sweeping statement. 

Nope.

->  Why much philosophy have you read?

Before I answer that I must first ask if you feel that one has to read 
philosophy in order to be a philosopher?  Is reading enough?

->  As for me: I'm an old fart, fairly well read, an excellent memory and
->  fairly comfortable with my beliefs...

Yet, is being well read and having a good memory all that makes a 
philosopher a wise man, an insightful and intelligent man?  I would answer 
a resounding "no".  There is much more to all those than simply knowing 
what the classical philosophers said, being around for a long time and 
remembering stuff.  

Sorry, you'll have to allow me to rant a little:

Because I can program in 6 programming lanuages and have a degree in 
programming, am I then a programmer?  No.  I am a programmer because I 
have something that most who go through the course do not.  This thing I 
have makes me more a philosopher than those with Phds in philosophy.  This 
one thing has also gotten me into more trouble here with more religious 
people than I care to count (you know some of them, they are no longer 
here).  This one thing also makes me a writer of fiction.

->  What shall we argue about first? :-)

Why not all of it?

BTW, did you want this echo to liven up a bit?  You know that I have a 
talent for such things.  >;o)
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