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>From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
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Subject: Re: Existence
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Date: 8 Dec 91 03:08:03 GMT
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Bill Skaggs writes:
|Mikhail Zeleny writes:
|>Bill Skaggs writes:
|>>
|>>What difference does it make whether the number pi "exists"?
|>
|>None whatsoever to the hoi polloi.  What the fuck are you doing posting to
|>a philosiophy newsgroup?  {. . . and a bunch of similar stuff}
|
|In many species of mammals the males are territorial:  they compete
|for control of pieces of land.  Males with more desirable territories
|are healthier, more successful in finding mates, and higher in social
|status.
|
|Human males are also territorial, but for *academic* human males the
|territories they compete for are often intellectual rather than
|geographic.

Patently absurd, Mr. Skaggs.  Why, that would mean Zeleny's chronic
jargonitis is the academic equivalent of pissing on fire hydrants!  And you
would liken his mighty clouds of references to obscure Hellenic epics, to
chimpanzees hurling their own shit at intruding naturalists?  Ye gods, such
outrageous slander has never before been heard on rec.arts.books.

I call upon you to promptly retract these vulgar and libelous statements.  My
attorneys await your reply with bated breath.

c


