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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: epicure who wrote (6235)4/18/1997 10:39:00 AM
From: Father Terrence   of 108807
 
alexa:

You are too smart to be a dunderhead, so I shall assume you are just confused. (What a turn of a phrase! Now I know why Ignacio sometimes slips into this jovial conversational mode!)

>>Re jostling: Maybe it just pisses them off and you get a distorted picture of what people are really like.<<

"When the thin veneer of artificial civility is stripped away, a man's true nature is revealed." R. M. 1887

>>Re conceptual/perceptual:The man on the deck has no imagination if he has to stand there to get the big picture. The man in the canyon, knowing the details, and using his brain, has the world at his command.<<

If you know only the structure of a neutrino, can you posit a relativistic universe? But if you know the universe, you can posit a neutrino.

The ancient Greeks created the concept of atoms thousands of years before it was possible to actually observe them or their effects. They had the BIG picture.

Friendly Father Terrence
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