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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (35690)4/22/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Rick Julian  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Fact is, Christine, for all of our intellectual posturing and preening, we don't knowJack. Empirical evidence, schmempirical evidence, primary sources . . .my ass. Half the time I can't explain to myself what just happened between me and another.

I often chuckle imagining the outlandish explanations future (say two centuries from now) bistorians will concoct when they uncover tv remote controls, microwave ovens, . . . I guarantee their explanations will bear little resemblance to reality.

This is not meant to discount the value of our historical speculations--occasionally our arrows actually graze their targets. But we get so cocky and confident with our "evidence" and our historical interpretations . . . when usually (in the big picture) we're doing little more than reading tea leaves.

(p.s. I doknow Jack Shit, and I madam, am no Jack Shit.)
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