Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01383)

At 02:14 PM 5/25/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>I prefer to consider this postlist to be a unit rather than a number
>of different "personalities".

What a truly ghastly thought! This list is composed of individuals, each of
them unique, each of them valuable, each of them with something to
contribute! To make it into an undifferentiated unit as to destroy it's
purpose and value.
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>"Feelings" are something we can do without in cyberspace.

What an utterly inhumane notion that is. "feelings" are what is behind all
great art and most of great philosophy, to deny the value of "emotions" in
favor of some "robotic" unemotional intellectualism is not simply inhumane
it is entirely anti-human. "Cyberspace" is just a new way for individuals to
communicate. The idea that this list is a "unit" and that "feelings" are
inappropriate anywhere makes me think un flatteringly of comparisons with
George Orwell's 1984!
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>ARA.
>Member TI.
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Sorry Albert, but that just had to be said.

alexis dolgorukii
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