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To: lws who wrote (7030)	1/12/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: John Curtis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

LWS: Heh! Not to make light of your thoughtful message, but it makes me smile in memory regarding my own personal experience relating to intelligence and academia. The memory is best summed up by saying that there I was, all full of meself after a couple of years of college, being all pompous and exuding pontificating smoke, arguing with my father over some irrelevancy. He just looked at me, shook his head and stated, "My son.....the college educated idiot." ;-) Regards! John~

To: lws who wrote (7030)	1/12/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: Pallisard	Respond to of 27311

Lws - Truly one of the best posts I've read, insightful and compelling ideas. Thank you. Hc and Jacques - Now I feel genuinely encouraged to stand my ground. Thanks. So much in one afternoon!

To: lws who wrote (7030)	1/12/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: FMK	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

LWS, I very much enjoyed your "Personal Confession and Manifesto." It restores my confidence that some "Nobel class" balanced thinking and bilateral oarsmanship might have factored in a decision to invest in Valence! I am making a print of your Manifesto, and will keep it folded between pages of Douglas Hofstdter's anthology of "Metamagical Themas", many of which were published in Scientific American! Best Regards from FMK

To: lws who wrote (7030)	1/13/1999 1:06:00 AM
From: MGV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

LWS - your manifesto seems likely to have been written by a thoughtful, eloquent, and entertaining writer - one with a likable strain of self-deprecating humor - one against whom it should be difficult to carry a grudge - (even for appearing to come perilously close at times to adopting the convoluted perspective of some of the more crotchety, raggedy, "kick-me" curmudgeons who far too frequently twist themselves into delusional knots of third hand, fact-challenged blather of what they think they heard - but I digress : ). Though I won't go as far as you seemed to in discrediting the utility of spirited, disciplined debate, I wouldnt't disagree with you on the wastefulness of arguing for the sake of arguing. Regarding the questions raised in #6959, you might be surprised at the response to a genuine effort to find answers to them. From time to time - far too infrequently - I'm impressed by the genuineness and earnestness of some posters' contributions to the VLNC thread. Jacques' post accomplished some needed transparency on a couple of issues. For one, it cast The VLNC CEO in a much more reasonable light and distance from what one might otherwise think in reading the representations and innuendoes of fmk. It appears that fmk, despite his efforts to portray otherwise, is something far less than a trusted confidante to the CEO or even the friends of the friends of the friends of the CEO. At the same time, it seems much less likely fmk is anything more than a self-interested spear carrier trying to prop up his own stake in a company. It does not appear he is in an agency way connected to VLNC. Its late and I'm tired but, I did want to respond to your note, if only to acknowledge the spirit of your effort. Good luck with your VLNC thesis.