Gosh Lawrence ------I am sure that you are right -other people mught suggest
other culls -like say pomposity(if I can spell it) or po faced .....--I
enjoy this group learning a lot --have a good weekend --culling the over
thirties is a sf ref (he says trying to be more ????????????
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: connection
> or we might raise the question and cull all those who give a triviliasing
> answer, Patrick
>
> L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: connection
>
>
> > Ter get rid of the over thirties that what I say(excluding yours
> > truly)patrickkkkkk
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: connection
> >
> >
> > > population first
> > >
> > > I need more tea before I do the rest
> > >
> > > I was serious, but not serious. It isn't email. I was utterly deadpan.
> But
> > > it is you who filled in the methodology.
> > >
> > > I merely set the targets you see. It is up to managers to decide how
to
> > meet
> > > them
> > >
> > > Not serious in that I wasn't suggesting a cull. I suspect that the
> > combined
> > > lunatics of the world will take care of the reduction by random cull
> > >
> > > Serious in that a massive reduction were one able to effect it without
> > > suffering - cloning the planet ninefold would be the easiest - would
be
> > > beneficial
> > >
> > > As you say, we are where we are; and as a voter I might come out of
> > > retirement for a party that pays attention to overpopulation
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>;
> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:23 AM
> > > Subject: Re: connection
> > >
> > >
> > > > Well, yeah, Lawrence, maybe the numbers do say that there are 90%
too
> > > many,
> > > > but the fact that is is that it is the existent situation, I don't
> think
> > > the
> > > > reduction of the human population by 90% would be, um, all that
> > pleasant,
> > > > particularly for those not in the 'saved' 10%. Question is: how to
> > address
> > > > this? For poets, how to find a language that somehow draws back
> together
> > > > what is falling apart? I can't pretend to have the answers, just an
> > > > awareness of something going Terribly Wrong.
> > > >
> > > > There is a Buddhist tradition about this century being the Age of
> > > > Destruction in which the human race will be vastly reduced in
numbers.
> > Not
> > > a
> > > > pleasant thought that.
> >
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