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From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Purported mystical "knowledge"
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> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:39:18PM -0500, Joe E. Dees wrote:
> > In fact, mystics
> > generally have a distaste for us philosopher types, who insist on
> > asking them annoying questions like "what do you mean when you
> > say..." and "how can that be true when this, which directly
> > contradicts that, is irretrieveably the case..."
>
> I consider myself a mystic and a philosopher, and I thrive on such
> questions.
>
> If you still consider "mystic" and "philosopher" to be necessarily
> contradictory, then you haven't been following the exchange between
> Vincent and myself. Or not closely enough, anyway.
>
Mystics like to consider themselves to be philosophers;
philosophers refuse to agree to be considered mystics.
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
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