Re: virus: My karma ran over your dogma.

chardin (chardin@uabid.dom.uab.edu)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:32:48 CST+6CDT


> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:49:27 -0600
> From: Nathaniel Hall <natehall@worldnet.att.net>
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: My karma ran over your dogma.
> Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com

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> Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
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> > .Heroin's only destination however is the grave.The Nateman
> >
> > Nate,
> >
> > Graves are not distinctions therefore your reasoning is faulty :)
>
> That's "Destination" not "distinction". However I'll reword it for
> you "The thing that heroin does all too often is kill you."
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>
How many lives have we sacrificed to the god of the Automobile?
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> > At 09:03 PM 10/11/97 -0600, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >KMO wrote:
> > >
> > >> The Nateman said something to the effect of, "You say cars are
> > >> evil? Tell yourself that the next time you're stranded
> > >> somewhere."
> > >>
> > >> Right on, Nate!
> > >>
> > >> I've also heard paternalistic moralizers say bad things about
> > >> heroin. But get hooked on the shit, and stay on it for so long
> > >> that you are totally dependent on it to the point where your
> > >> whole daily routine is structured around it and you can't even
> > >> conceive of life without it, and then, one day when you can't
> > >> score and you're desperate for a fix because you can feel the
> > >> junk sickness setting in and every cell in your nervous system
> > >> is sreaming for the soothing relief that only needle full of
> > >> freshly cooked smack can deliver, just tell yourself, "Oh,
> > >> heroin is bad. I don't really want any of that stuff. I'll be
> > >> much better off without it."
> > >>
> > >> -KMO
> > >
> > >The analogy is faulty for this reason: Cars are not heroin.
> > >Recreational Heroin does not help one deal with reality but
> > >rather to deny it. (Taken for severe pain it is another matter).
> > >Cars however do help one to deal better with reality. Travel
> > >across a continent is possible in only a handfull of days with
> > >cars (not to mention the bounties aquired in trade for those who
> > >don't even drive).Heroin's only destination however is the
> > >grave.The Nateman
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Returning,
> > rBERTS%n
> > Rabble Sonnet Retort
> > Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within.
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