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   ROBBIE to Martha Bridegam   
   Re: Imagine...   
   04 Nov 06 12:44:54   
   
   From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:8Pw2h.1071$r12.410@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...   
   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   >   
   >>  But anyway, let's face it Marf, you've never wanted to defend or examine   
   >> your own beliefs here - just a bit of a 'hey ho shucks ya just must be a   
   >> fascist is all' type of speil (just the speil that Georgy boy would have   
   >> sniffed a rat with, if you will). If you're *not* some kind of   
   >> millenarian or Marxist intellectual, then refute it in bold and pardon me   
   >> all over the place. Otherwise, I don't think I'm going after a straw man.   
   >>   
   >> ROBBIE   
   >   
   > I'm not a millenarian or a Marxist.   
      
   A fag-paper's width of difference.   
      
   I don't think it's a bad thing to be an idealist at all - the best of us are   
   disappointed idealists. But when an abdication of reason occurs - to protect   
   one's idealism and utopianism - then there's a serious problem.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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