RE: virus: missa viriis

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:57:36 -0500

From:           	"Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To:             	<virus@lucifer.com>
Subject:        	RE: virus: missa viriis
Date sent:      	Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:48:12 -0700
Send reply to:  	virus@lucifer.com

> Actually since you are a self-declared empiricist I doubt you'd be
> interested in the results of such a poll, right?
>
Chickenshit. A poll would be empirical proof or disproof of my contention that most virians are empirically minded. The fact that you're afraid enough of one to attempt (what you seem to consider) an ad hominem attack as a means to change of subject speaks volumes. Your name means a lot less than the facts of the matter, and always will.
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> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of Joe E. Dees
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 6:32 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
>
>
> From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:25:51 -0700
> Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > So you think you're speaking for all Virians, who in turn you believe are
> > mostly empiricists. Is that correct?
> >
> I think MOST Virians agree with me on this. Ya wanna take a poll?
> > Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> > Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> > Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> > Of Joe E. Dees
> > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 5:54 PM
> > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> >
> >
> > From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> > Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:35:37 -0700
> > Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> >
> > > You must be alluding to something I'm not familiar with, but I really
> > wanted
> > > the answer to the question who are you speaking for. Virians?
> Empiricists?
> > > All people? You and your eyelash mites?
> > >
> > I think I am on pretty solid ground in asserting that Virians are
> > indeed, as a class, empiricists. This is supposedly an atheistic
> > religion; how can ya hav va heaven in the absence uv va god (and
> > don't gimme the standard dodge about "heaven on earth", either;
> > that has nothing to do with the instantiation of a particular
> > metaphysical belief system, to the exclusion of all others, as Virion
> > Dogma). The evidence of our senses is a commonality with which
> > we can intersubjectively agree; the moment you begin favoring one
> > interpretation of that evidence over another, you sow the seeds of
> > schism.
> > >
> > > Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> > > Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> > > Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> > > Of Joe E. Dees
> > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 5:26 PM
> > > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > > Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> > > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > Subject: RE: virus: missa viriis
> > > Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:14:12 -0700
> > > Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> > >
> > > > Who are you speaking for when you say "we"?
> > > >
> > > > Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
> > > > Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> > > > Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On
> Behalf
> > > > Of Joe E. Dees
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 4:57 PM
> > > > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > > > Subject: Re: virus: missa viriis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
> > > > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: virus: missa viriis
> > > > Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:45:00 -0700
> > > > Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> > > >
> > > > > Joe wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >Any rituals we craft should be empirically based.
> > > > >
> > > > > Whyfore?
> > > > >
> > > > > -Tim
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Because we tend to view metaphysical constructs as myopizing
> > > > memetraps.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Then you view skypies as wind beneath your wings?
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