Re: Is this where existence is?

[edmund...@duskmail.com]

Hi...@low.com wrote:
> In article <b2vo31974n38nebfm...@4ax.com>, Dude With the
> Hair <dudewiththe(remove)ha...@hushmail.com> wrote:
> Well, Doc, it's like this...
> How much of *everything* is really politics?
> It's as much as the people involved want it to be. Or not.
> It could be nothing at all, or almost all of it, depending upon how you
> want to define politics. In it's broadest definition, it's all of human
> social interaction. In it's narrowest definition, it's the process of
> how a society governs itself. Or tries to. :-)
> In the forging of a relationship, there are "phases". It always
> happens, although most people don't think of it that way. Those of us
> who specialize in the human sciences, such as philosophy and
> psychology, are very much aware of this. The testing phase that Y Not
> and I are now in, is made more difficult than usual because we both
> know we are doing it. How can we test each other, when we know we're
> doing it? Think of it as intellectual sparring. I have the advantage,
> too. I know *much* more about him than he knows about me. :-)
> We know why Y Not is here. I'm here for my own reasons:
> To download movies and pictures. I think you know why. [grin]
> To have social intercourse with my own kind.
> For intellectual stimulation, where I can find it.
> To further my understanding of myself and other people.
> For the last two reasons, I was hoping to chiefly use Y Not. I was
> disappointed that he was leaving. I haven't posted but infrequently, in
> years, but I've been reading *all* the posts I could find of his, and
> many other posters. To possibly change this situation, I thought I
> could see if I could use myself to entice him to stay a little more
> active in these newsgroups than he had thought to. He's complained that
> there aren't any people here who are intelligent enough to fully engage
> him on an intellectual level. I hope to change that.
> If you're wondering, I haven't decided if I like Y Not personally, or
> not. It doesn't matter, if I get what I want out of him. Selfish of me,
> isn't it? :-)
> Now Y Not knows a little more about me. It's only fair that he should.
> I've decided to make it my mission to make things interesting enough in
> these newsgroups, in a non harmful way (I hope), and probably in a very
> limited way, to stimulate Y Not's benign attention. To take a page from
> Y Not's own book, that he knows this, isn't going to reduce it's
> effectiveness. It might actually make him even more curious to see what
> will happen.
> I'm going to debate Y Not in the discussion group, in a way that he
> will find it very difficult to refute my slightly outrageous
> contentions. I hope you'll chose to participate. The first topic will
> surprise you!
> Have a nice day,
> High

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