Declan wrote:
>Or there's something about the cypherpunks list that attracts 'em,
>which I tend to think is the case.
Agreed, that is what distinguishes this list, now, and based on the
archives, from its beginning. While Tim used miswiring coyly, the
term fits most of what produces innovative s
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Tim May wrote:
> I'm thinking there's some common miswiring in the brains of these folks.
If you think cpunks are bad, try cryonicists. Ugh.
>Any more of this kind of shit writing belabors the obvious
>point that serious writing, along with serious thinking, is
>ridiculous, a conceit of mind and tongue unable to bear
>frightful freedom, afraid of its own yearning for disorderly
>structure as though there is something wrong with sing
Psychological and psychiatric catergories are entertaining to
toy with, and the diagnostic manuals are a hoot, but none are as
subtle and supple as language needs to be to convey what
people do, believe, say and act. They are way too rigid and
domineering to get at the complexity and unpredictabi
On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 11:28 AM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>
> As for paranoid schizophrenia, Tim, least Dr. Nash's beautiful mind
> won a
> prize or two before seeing a spook behind every Bush.
>
Back in the Plonk file you go.
--Tim May
"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats t
>From Faustine's quote of The Mask of Sanity:
Interspersed in Cleckley's vivid clinical descriptions are phrases such as
"shrewdness and agility of mind," "talks entertainingly," and "exceptional
charm" . . .
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Well, Tim, 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
Or - wooops - maybe this is about
At 10:15 AM -0800 on 1/6/02, Tim May wrote, once again making me spew my
poor PBG3 with second-hand caffeine:
> You mean like your foaming-at-the-mouth denunciations
> You mean like your Toto-emulating incomprehensible ramblings?
>Namely, a mix of schizophrenia, dyslexia, paranoia, and Tour
On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 01:41 PM, John Young wrote:
> There are many voices and styles of discourse, and to be sure
> a variety of ways to moderate by intimidation and ridicule and
> proclaiming the one true way to do it without seeming to.
>
> Different strokes, differing anarchies, and a
There are many voices and styles of discourse, and to be sure
a variety of ways to moderate by intimidation and ridicule and
proclaiming the one true way to do it without seeming to.
Different strokes, differing anarchies, and archies pretending
otherwise. That is what makes this commons more i
