From: theleasthappyfella@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 5:22:07 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 1:18:59 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > On Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 8:26:17 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 8:20:56 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 12:20:00 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > On Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 11:51:06 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 2:31:50 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > > On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 8:44:25 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > > > On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 2:26:03 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 8:41:03 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey   
   Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8:35:57 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey   
   Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 12:06:47 PM UTC-7,   
   Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 7:03:11 AM UTC-7, tooly   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 11:27:32 AM UTC-4,   
   Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 12:04:02 AM UTC-7,   
   Arindam Banerjee wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 7 June 2023 at 12:01:47 UTC+10,   
   Jeffrey Rubard wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Blah followec by headless chook perambulations.    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "So you don't speak English all the time?"    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "It's global English."|    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "I'm not sure I believe you."    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > Every religious fanatic in the world should be made   
   to watch Carl Sagan's 'blue dot'...earth as seen from the rings of Saturn   
   [from voyager space craft I believe]. It puts into context how small we   
   are...and though we may    
   contemplate things like this universe, looking down from such a far away perch   
   surely shrinks our egotistical personification of higher forces [like gods or   
   God or pantheistic panacea]. But I do sympathize with the radical zealot   
   [religious]...as I    
   sympathize with all of us...for we all seek meaning however we can, no matter   
   how we twist our brains into pretzels in the attempt over many generations.   
   It's not that we should just leave behind our belief systems, but realize we   
   have bigger fish to fry    
   perhaps...say in upcoming AI...that promises to UNDO all TRUTH and   
   information...    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > > ...even this post. Can you trust it? And distrust   
   will destroy us in the end...as it permeated into the destruction of over 130+   
   souls on that fateful November 13, 2015 day in Paris.    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > > > > > > "That's, um, pretty 'amazing'. I'm not sure what I can   
   'make out' in what you say, though."    
   > > > > > > > > > > > Dude seriously does look like Larry Kramer in the   
   photographs of him, though.    
   > > > > > > > > > > "Do you see anything of Jean-Luc Nancy in yourself?"    
   > > > > > > > > > > Hmm.    
   > > > > > > > > > "Is there any way Jean-Luc Nancy could be like you?"    
   > > > > > > > > > Oh, I don't know, I'm not sure what you're getting at   
   here...    
   > > > > > > > > "Oh, ha ha, ha ha, did anybody ever see you and Jean-Luc Nancy   
   in a..."    
   > > > > > > > > We're 'not much for the looking' and both were reputed to be   
   reclusive, so...    
   > > > > > > > "Oh, you couldn't possibly look that bad, I'm sorry to tell   
   you..."    
   > > > > > > > Do you know me? Have we ever met before? Etc.    
   > > > > > > "Soo many *Vorsichten*..."    
   > > > > > "What's the point of this?"    
   > > > > > Probably not your point, huh?    
   > > > > (Seriously, the lesson of Jean-Luc Nancy is the lesson of people from   
   the middle of the 20th century who became    
   > > > > 'beyond good and evil' in a *very* restricted sense from dealing with   
   too much of the latter. "They Were Expendable"?    
   > > > > Not strictly true. They became obsolete as a personality type? Very   
   generally true. Did they think much of "thinking    
   > > > > a lot of yourself"? Not at all, not at all.)    
   > > > Jack Kerouac thought these things, etc.    
   > > > "Oh, man, please stop."    
   > > > I guess I will.    
   > > "The Dharma Bums"   
   > "That's a novel by Jack Kerouac."    
   > Sure.   
      
   "What would a 'dharma bum' be?"   
   Maybe read something by Nancy, then.   
      
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