Mind the gap!
JISCy does seem to be having one of those erratic-delivery spells....
Candice
on 7/22/01 7:29 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Which message was originally sent FOUR days ago.(!)
>
> Now where did I leave that Tardis?
>
> db
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: personae/ethics/exoskeletons
>
>
>> My, my
>>
>> what a harvest of non-existents this northern summer is bringing.
>>
>> I would like to address certain contributors here, such as Kent (?) and
>> Erminia (?) but as they have persuaded me of their non-existent status I
>> would feel uncomfortably like I was talking to No-one, a not unfamiliar
>> feeling, to countless numbers of non-beings every day, such as those who
> are
>> not really in Indonesia discovering the recent bounty of the IMF in
>> insisting the government remove subsidies on food and medicine for the
>> rather large numbers of non-existent poor who are embarrassing the
> economic
>> plans by pretending to exist and thus not helping the real task of
> repaying
>> loans, nor can one except from such strictures the disgusting AIDS victims
>> of the Congo who insist on lying around on floors without the medication
>> they can't afford and even literally dying, in agony, as if they believed
>> themselves more than just chance narratives, obviously they are uneducated
>> in the ways of post-modernism and the Buddha.
>>
>> Thank g-d we ( who are not we) have Kent and Ermie ( who are equally not)
> to
>> remind us-not-selves that we all collectively do not exist. Otherwise I
>> might do something really stupid:
>>
>> like caring for people.
>>
>>
>> David Bircumshaw
>>
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