[lit-ideas] Re: Here's a new spin on preventative medicine
- From: "David Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:34:40 -0500
While 'Noted' is, of course, (ho-hem) fine, I'd rather you tore a
proverbial strip off of me, added your support, recognised me a fool, or
extolled my genius...
not giving a damn which, but sure you have more to offer,
d.
P.S. If not, then don't waste our bloody time. Either you have an
opinion or you're wasting space...but to hell and back again with 'noted'
Robert Paul wrote:
Noted.
> Nope, not at all. In fact that mindedness, or mindfullness,
> you're speaking of is genuine philo-sophy -- the love (perhaps
> pursuit) of wisdom. Most of these bloody academics are merely
> soph-ologists -- studiers of, processors of, or Judy's
> commentators on, wisdom... Most profess-ors could never grasp
> the nub of the wisdom that they profess to teach if it ate them
> out or sucked them off in a dark alley...
>
> Perhaps that's all it has ever done for them, made them feel
> rude, crude, and dirty enough not share it with everyone. It has
> allowed them the notion that they are in on some great secret;
> they belive that they are privy to something almost noone else
> has discovered. They revel in, and relish, the adoration of
> undergrads dressed in elbow-patched sweaters, Sally-Anne
> recovered tweed jackets, and Fédoras. Philosophy, rather, still
> comes down to the question asked by a friend's young child, who,
> while holding a Shiner in hand queried: "Why are fish so
> beautiful?"
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