RE: RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter...

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:44:55 -0800

So you see no advantage in asking advice from the Dalai Lama or a heroin addict; you just sort it all out objectively and disregard where the advice comes from. Is that correct?

Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/ Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme" http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
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From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf Of joe dees
Sent: Monday, February 8, 1999 4:56 PM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re:RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter...

At Mon, 8 Feb 1999 06:28:42 -0800, you wrote:
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>What would enable you to decide whether someone has advice worth taking?

I ask people with varying world views and basic assumptions, and try to tease out common threads which may be to some degree independent of particular views and assumptions since they occur in people who don't otherwise share them. Then I take these threads and do a personal wheat and chaff on them, based on my own experiences and sensibilities, to see which of them apply best to the situation as I see it.

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>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
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>Subject: Re: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter..
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>At Sun, 7 Feb 1999 19:33:15 -0700, you wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
>>To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
>>Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:08 PM
>>Subject: RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter.
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>>>No thanks. I'm here to aid people's growth, not deter it.
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>>Psst, Richard. Your dogma is showing.
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>Perhaps the claims of those who claim to have seen through and transcended
>gospels and dogmas are simply parts of their particular and different, but
>still existent, gospels and dogmas, just as much as claims of enlightenment
>or higher/deeper/more profound understanding or nirvana or salvation may
be.
>Even universal scepticism is a faith in the illumining power of doubt.
>Joe E. Dees
>Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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