Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/02/87)
Really-From: uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor@harvard.harvard.edu (Pereant Qui Ante Nos Nostra Dixerunt) well, this is what we were all waiting for.... >Really-From: IED0DXM@UCLAMVS >>We are forced, as IED has repeatedly demonstrated, into forcing >>definitions on QUALITY which are, at most, purely arbitrary. >GODDAMMIT, HOW FUCKING DUMB CAN YOU BE?! > >IED really cannot believe that he has to point out this obvious >fact YET ANOTHER TIME for you dumbbells. Some brave soul among us once again had the gall to suggest that poor little andrew was involved in one of the most painfully obvious bits of deck-stacking since Plotinus, and he isn't buying it. Of course we are all fools, niet waar? The three-letter dweeb has said that since Kate Bush *is* the Platonic form of X, then all Y must be inferior because it isn't X. After several folks point out to the poor suffering soul that there might be a bit of blind-sided bias in there, he snaps and starts using all those words that he was so upset at messrs. wicinski and hofmann et. al. for. Perhaps he will soon begin advocating stuffing rags in our mouths and lighting them. >He did NOT give arbitrary definitions of "quality". Certainly not. They're only arbitraty when *other* persons look at them. >He made no judgmental remarks about the VALUE or "quality" of >such properties as "sophistication", "refinement" and >"complexity" AT ALL. No way. That might involve a little engagement and some linguistic skirmishing. You weren't around for that stuff last time. Trust me, Doug did a far more elegant job of trying to argue a similar position and it didn't work. It is simply impossible to avoid those judgemental remarks, andrew. Can't be done. Doug has seemingly come to see the value in entertaining the kinds of arguments all those persons you've decided are dumb were making (whether or not he has come to agree is another matter, of course. ;-) ). -- A silence so rare/more than I can stand/sweeps like a flood through life's flesh and blood/and steals away/with my heart. Gregory Taylor:[...ihnp4!nicmad OR ...uwvax]!astroatc!gtaylor