Re: virus: META: a rule for the list

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:18:36 -0500


At 02:49 PM 10/18/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>>
>> Brett,
>> This one rocks, The military analogy is excellent. The last paragraph
>> gives me an idea about the "Social Organism". In another thread, we were
>> trying to decide if we should study memes on the group, or individual
>> level. What is a social group acts like a single brain, and an entirely
>> different large meme now exists. Maybe like cells in the brain, people
>> in a group form a legitimate "group mind" with it's own own will
>> external to that of the individuals. (pretty metaphysical for me)
>>
>> Sodom
>>
>> List, scary as hell if you ask me!
>>
>> Brett
>>
>> Returning,
>> rBERTS%n
>> Rabble Sonnet Retort
>> Everyone must row with the oars he has.
>>
>> English proverb
>>
>Can it explaiun behavior, and can it be tested?
>
>Sodom

It's being tested by the pioneers...spiritualists, metaphysician,
philosophers--us. It *will* be tested using better and better methods. It
will never be proven to the degree that personal observation ("faith")
illustrates it...which is to say that it resonates in every fiber of my
being and has been justified as a "Truth" through the most minute detail of
my behavior and/or thought processes. You will come to believe it, too.
AND it will frighten you to the point that you will pray for your soul.
Death of the individual for the less developed aims of the group is the
process of DIS-ease and loss. It takes a different sort of faith all
togeather to rationalize one's own destruction. To live daily after one's
death and mourn the loss of one's self is more of a hell than "Billions and
Billions of degrees".

Brett (still fighting)

Returning,
rBERTS%n
Rabble Sonnet Retort
Everyone must row with the oars he has.

English proverb