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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 >