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To: epicure who wrote (6693)	1/29/1998 9:40:00 PM
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hello alexa belief is below know on the scale. what you are searching for can exist, by definition. you are immortal; you conceive it, it exists. more chips, please. thanks. ub

To: epicure who wrote (6693)	1/29/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: username	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Alexa, Hey I'm sorry about Uncle Blinky. He gets in here on my computer sometimes and just types. Never uses upper case, so you'll recognize him. Just ignore him if you want to, he will eat a few chips and be gone. Sorry, pete

To: epicure who wrote (6693)	1/29/1998 11:19:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Alright, this is totally off topic >> It is? What topic is it off? I like your topic. I hereby declare it ontopic. Not to be confused with ectopic. Or isotropic. Or misanthropic. I think I can do this because as thread leader I have certain powers. One of which is to decide what's ontopic. Whether anyone cares what I declare is debatable, I understand that. And actually, since I know nothing about Santayana, I may have trouble participating, although look how much I've written already. Really-I had a whole bunch of thoughts fly through my head when I read your post--like this discussion Paul and I had about how our brains are much more of a chemical soup than we probably want to know. But it's past bedtime and my chemically controlled brain is shortcircuiting after a meeting up at school with the AP Physics teacher and 50 parents who want to know why the highest grade on the semester exam was a 45. (Our son had the 45; I was proud) Do not mess with yuppie parents. Scary people. Tomorrow I'll try to redeem myself by saying something intelligent, but I probably won't.

To: epicure who wrote (6693)	1/29/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Alexa. As John Calvin would have told you, you are either elect or you are not. And you are elect only in the eyes of a certain bassett hound who will remain nameless.

To: epicure who wrote (6693)	2/2/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well-it's taken me a few days, but I'm determined to respond to this post. When I read it the other night, I thought of Jung and his psychological types. He thought that people interpret their world through different biases, the same ones that the test we played with attempted to measure. THe introvert interprets through the inner world (the psyche) and the extravert through the external world. And either of those can be dominated by one of the functions: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition. Sound familiar? Anyway, couldn't this be a way of saying, as you did, that we're wired differently? Jung got this idea because he thought it was interesting that he, Freud and Adler could all look at the same psychological material and see something so different, and he hypothesized that it was because of this habitual bias. For example, he viewed Western man as alienated from his emotional roots because of his emphasis on the intellect, the thinking part. Wouldn't this equate with someone wired for "real world possibilities"? They just don't see things in that feeling, intuitive way, by your "egoistic philosophy" or "ability to believe" wiring. Ideally, our personalities should be whole, balanced between the two, but that's pretty unusual, I think, particularly at our age in our culture where really the required wiring for "success" is probably more the extraverted, thinking one. But as we approach later middle age, we frequently begin to explore the less dominant side, resulting in the middle aged crisis-the search for meaning in our life. Jung had a lot to say about this. (his "process of individuation") that I really don't remember too clearly from my History and Systems classes. I think it would mean a lot more now. Anyway-I think it's pretty impressive that you wound up at the same point Jung did by a different route. If you did, which of course was just my intuitive, feeling interpretation of what you said.