Innocence & harmless weapons
Hi Sandy et al., Whose side of the truth? To be honest I was surprised by your simplistic responce. Jim Choate Forwarded message:
From cypherpunks-errors@toad.com Thu May 23 16:01:31 1996 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960523200615.0072a288@popmail.crl.com> X-Sender: sandfort@popmail.crl.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:06:15 -0700 To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: TCM: mafia as a paradigm for cyberspace Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk
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At 12:11 PM 5/23/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
Tell ya what: name a weapon that CANNOT be used to harm an innocent person. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
The Truth?
S a n d y
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, On Thu, 23 May 1996, Jim Choate wrote:
Hi Sandy et al.,
Whose side of the truth?
That was a capital "T", bub. Truth doesn't have sides. (Think of it as an archetype.)
To be honest I was surprised by your simplistic responce.
That was a question mark, bub. It wasn't an answer, it was a question. Hey, the devil is in the details, gang. Too bad modern schools teach "self-esteem" instead of reading, writing and rhetoric. (Spelling wouldn't hurt either.) S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sandy Sandfort was accused of saying:
C'punks,
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Jim Choate wrote:
Hi Sandy et al.,
Whose side of the truth?
That was a capital "T", bub. Truth doesn't have sides. (Think of it as an archetype.)
Not to drag a whole new level of philosophy into this already dragging list, but Plato disagrees with you. There is no The Truth. It's all in perception.
S a n d y
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