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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Markets Are Not Clubs
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:17:50 -1000


Vide infra pro risibus.

Lightening up is the generic global problem, not the solution.

I have more girlfriends than I can handle. Would you care for one or
two of the excess?

No malice and/or bad feeling in the least.

The Sun does not rise and set on your "karmic equilibrium".

I fully realise that you have probably been taught that it does.

Finis.
--

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

"There was a time when reporters wanted information, their questions
directed to an underlying event... They might not agree with you in the
end, but it was a matter of pride that they could accurately state your
view, before rejecting it...." [Now] reporters came to the story with
the lead fixed in their minds; they saw their job as proving what they
already knew. They didn't want information so much as evidence of
villainy." Michael Crichton, "Airframe" (1996); Alfred A. Knopf, New
York, p. 109.

John Flynn <> wrote in message
news:...
| "D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
|
| > Some folks seem to see <soc.genealogy.medieval> and/or
| > <soc.history.medieval> --- and perhaps other favourite newsgroups
| > too --- I suppose --- as a <CLUB> or a <COMMUNITY>.
| >
| > I fear for these people, if their social life is so barren and
| > circumscribed that they must seek to find a club on USENET ---
rather
| > than a flesh and blood club.
| >
| > _Au contraire_, I would suggest that <soc.genealogy.medieval> is a
| > <MARKET> and <soc.history.medieval> is a <MARKET> and that <MARKETS>
are
| > interesting, useful and profitable places for all sorts of
people --- if
| > folks understand the rules of play. The situation can certainly be
| > Win-Win for everyone.
| >
| > None of the above is meant, in any way, to suggest that clubs are
not
| > useful and valuable things in their own right.
| >
| > Groucho Marx, no relation to Karl, once said something to the effect
| > that he would not want to be a member of any club that would have
him.
| >
| > Profound Man, Groucho.
|
| Mr Hines, may I offer the following advice?
|
| Get a girlfriend, or a decent drinking habit, or some goldfish, or
| anything...
| Just lighten up, please! Life is far too short for this malice and
| bad feeling, and you're affecting my karmic equilibrium with it.
|
| Peace to all men and women, okay?
|
| --
| john

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