22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
4:39 a.m.
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:33 +0000, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar, 2006 at 07:32PM -0600, Jan Depner
spake thus:
It means beating around the bush by using large words ;-)
--
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html
"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and
this we should do freely and generously."
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:42 +0000,
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Okay, you win. Google didn't help me find out what it meant and I'm
not resorting to using one of those bricks of dead tree.
What is it?
The act of cycling around the long way to avoid bigfoot?
On Tue, 21 Mar, 2006 at 06:50AM +0000, tim hall
spake thus:
That's it! No more circumlocutorysesquapedalianism ;-) Cesare Marilungo wrote:
I tend to subscribe to the relativistic position. But I'm not sure about
that. I defend my and other people's right to make up our own minds on
these issues. I'm sure if there was a nice pat solution we'd have given
it a decent shot by now.
I can't help but feel relativism is a big cop out.
Don't take this the wrong way - I'd have to describe myself as a
relativist, nihilist and existentialist. All at once.
And with all that, I suppose you have to throw postmodern in there
too.
It's the big cosmic joke, that all of these things we've created (from
society to gestures like waving goodbye) are arbitrary and yet we can
argue and kill each other over them.
Okay, I'm not adding to the discussion, just showing off some big
words.