Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
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> I've apparently been kicked off the list for
> admitting that I was wrong about something, in clear violation of the
> list guidelines.
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And the application of that sentence will be performed shortly, as I have
been
assured by this List's Board of Regents. Let this be a lesson for everyone
else
who remains on this List. Violations of List imperatives, policies and
arbitrary preference will not be tolerated. Regardless of race, colour,
creed,
gender, religious affiliation, sexual orientation(if any), or the holding
of
administrivial office - as in the case of Mr. Paul (President and
Vice-Chancellor, Mutton College, Nebraska, USA) - such fragrant and
egregious
floundering of our cherished epistemic and moral ideals and virtues, as
was
expressed by Mr. Paul's acknowledgement of phallibilism, will not be
tolerated
in this bastion of civility, rationality and humanity.
While Mr. Paul admits to the above failing, almost in an indecently
self-congratulatory tone, I might add, he deliberately omits to mention
numerous other violations of List policy, and, hence, transgressions
against
Pure Reason, that he has committed over the many years of his residence
and care
at our institution. Allow me to identify just a few of these for the
benefit of
the common good in general and new members in particular who may be
wondering
about the purposes and methods of our institution.
Lest it be known, that Mr. Paul has repeatedly been cited, convicted and
fined
for replying to posted messages by our illustrious membership - that
surely
itself constitutes grounds for exile to Newark, NJ, but this is not my
major
point - where said replies clearly, distinctly and consistently revealed a
close and informed reading of his interlocutors'positions! .... Order!
Order,
please. But there is more, ladies and gentlemen. Copious and meticulour
researches of our List archives, conducted by our own trained staff, have
been
able to discover, within Mr. Paul's record of pubic discussions on this
List,
not one reference to the paternal or maternal background of his
interlocutors,
nor even so much as an oblique, tacit reference to himself as one who has
devoted his entire life to the pursuit of philosophical clarity and
elegance.
Extending the inquiry into the primal origins of this List in its
precursive
"Phil-Lit" form (vide Comrade Denisovitch Duttonovskaya, Dsirektor) it has
been
revealed that Mr. Paul has spent most of his adult and pubescent life in
gainful employment as a Professor of Applied Metaphysics and Venn Diagrams
at
one of the most prestigious centres of higher learning in the Best Western
Hemisphere. This fact notwithstanding, it remains the case that the
cumulative
record reveals not one instance of any expression or ejaculation even
remotely
resembling the propositional content of:
"Look. Let's be honest. You're a philosophical moron with an ego the size
of
Newfoundland (and Labrador) and you have way too much time on your hands.
And
like Kissinger said of Ronnie, 'You've never been intellectually tested
and
you've never been brought to your knees through elenchus.' Or something
like
that, anyway."
I rest my case. Visits to Mr. Paul in exile in Mud Lake, Labrador, on Ides
of
March, may be arranged through Lit-Ideas, Penal Division, and through Air
Canada (god love ya!).
Walter O.
Division of 4-M Curation (Morals, Morale, Mores, and Manners)
Museum of Lit-ideas
Cosmopolis, NL
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