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   From: lrudolph@panix.com   
      
   Peter Terpstra  writes:   
      
   >Why should we waste our precious time on the internet?   
      
   Is time 'spent' (a funny verb to apply to "time", full   
   of overtones and presuppositions) "on the internet"   
   necessarily "waste"d?  That hasn't been my experience   
   (but why should my assessment of "my experience"--another   
   funny phrase--be particularly accurate?).   
      
   >To feed  the Hungry Ghosts?   
      
   The feeding of Hungry Ghosts hardly requires the high   
   technology of an internet (or even of a printing press,   
   or script--*maybe* it requires language, or at least the   
   capacity for language); it's an age-old pastime of the   
   Clever Ape.   
      
   Lee Rudolph   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)