[IMC-pgh-editorial] request to hide
emma rocket
ehr at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Feb 21 20:09:25 PST 2003
yeah. hide away. honestly i always shy away from hiding those just because
i can't bring myself to read them, and only like to hide stuff that i've
really gone through and can list a good reason for hiding.
fuck that god nonsense.
heh.
not to alienate anyone on this list, obviously....
em
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Harrold wrote:
>Sometime in February Evan W. Wolfson assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| Eds:
>|
>| Can we please hide "Before all else, be not proud"?? Pretty please?! I
>| feel it is not news. It is not commentary on a specific event or political
>| concept. Basically, it looks like nonsense to me, though I've been told I'm
>| not a super-duper spiritual person. Oh well.
>|
>| Anyway, the new age, pseudo-technical quasi-religious tract makes no sense
>| to me either. Here is an example:
>|
>| "We all must come to terms with knowing what we are, which is God (a
>| tentacle of the infinite 4-dimensional fractal singularity that likes making
>| pretty). Which means we are perfect- which means we have no excuse for not
>| having perfect integrity.
>|
>| "I know. I know. We come from a place, in general, where we see ourselves as
>| imperfect beings (which is pride's deception) and so we are weak- but not
>| without the ability to become stronger."
>|
>| So, if we are perfect, how can we deceive ourselves with pride? Or be weak,
>| for that matter.
>|
>|
>| Res Ipsa Loquitor,
>|
>| E.
>
>i'm on your side evan. though it might be that i am not deep enough to
>understand this.
>
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