Re: virus: FWD: The nature of truth

Tadeusz Niwinski (tad@teta.ai)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 14:49:51 -0800


Richard wrote:
>This post by Lee Crocker on the Extropians list seemed apropos of our
>current discussion:

and brought a long post of 824 words packed around a deadly
mental DNA:

"How can we determine truth? I think it's clear that we can't."

Richard, if you want to quote Extropians, an honest thing to do would be to
also quote the rational side of their discussion, when, for example, Reilly
Jones responds to:

"I have no desire to attain truth".

with:

>Well, chalk up yet one more twentieth-century vote in favor of lies
>and propaganda.

>The truth is, majority rule doesn't determine truth so this vote is wasted
>one way or another.

Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159