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To: Neocon who wrote (27785)	6/6/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I didn't think of it as homework. :) And I'm as much a philosopher as I am anything else. Not saying that's saying much. I didn't immerse myself in all those books for no reason. It's mostly that my "philosophy" transformed into something less written, less verbal. More instinctive, perhaps? That's what I was trying to say with keeping the essense and deleting a lot of the rest. There is a point where there is only choice. A point where what we have learned and internalized and become is only that. A wordless acting. Or something like that. As you said, much of what is written is a way to bring us to that point.

To: Neocon who wrote (27785)	6/6/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Neocon, since you come from a thread that prizes its "brutal honesty," let me try to be honest (if not brutal). You write: I didn't mean to assign homework. I was just trying to see what an intelligent but not especially philosophical person would make of them. The unspoken assumption behind your post, which you spammed to several threads, was that the recipients were "not especially philosophical people." It smelt, in other words, of condescension. And the fact of the matter is that there are quite a few people around here -- nihil included, btw-- who are quite "philosophical," in the sense that they have read at least as much formal philosophy as you have, and who have a philosophical bent of their own. Instead of publishing some ex cathedra pronouncements, totally out of the blue, try something like this: "I see you take such and such a position on such and such. That reminds me of whoozit and whatsit. What do you think of what they have to say on the matter?" Now, that is conversation. And it won't irritate anyone. People will think you are actually trying to engage them in a dialogue, rather than trying to preach something or other to them, or --heaven forfend! -- to show off. Remember, we are all paranoid... ;-) jbe