Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00185)

"all the world's a stage"


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From: "krishtar_a" <krishtar_a@brturbo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: Theos-World bartsīs lab


> Good night everybody
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> Bart is using this e-group as his own laboratory.
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> Krishtar
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> .----- Original Message -----
> From: Bart Lidofsky
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: [bn-study] RE: good-bye to the BIG BANG
theory
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> leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> > All of me says...
> > Bart said it like it is. (Barring the course language, of course,
> > which is his perogative.:-)
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> Or pejorative...
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> To explain the crude method I gave (oh, it turns out my math was wrong;
> Bailley was more like 8 years old when Blavatsky died).
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> There is a technique, developed by philosophers of the radical left,
> called "consciousness raising". It is based on the fact that most
> reasonably intelligent people are basically polite. Therefore, if one
> makes a totally outrageous statement, most people, rather than call it
> for what it is, will try and meet one halfway, probably agreeing to a
> statement they would never have agreed to had it been presented as the
> initial proposition. Examples of such initial statements are "Blacks
> cannot be racist", "All sex is rape", "The United States is the most
> evil nation on the planet", etc.
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> In any case, there is one way to short-circuit such an approach: be
> impolite. Cut off the original statement, forget about the rules of
> civility. By using such tactics, the maker of the statement has given up
> the right to civility. So, by matter of habit, when someone makes a
> ridiculously outrageous statement, I cut it off quickly, and with no
> politeness whatsoever. It's not nice. But neither is trying to take
> advantage of the civility of others to try to get them to agree to a
> falsehood.
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> Bart
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