Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA19755 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:24:44 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D4D@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:21:05 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Ever the materialist, I used to go to Sunday school for the free biscuits
and orange squash. That was back in the days of squash filled with E
numbers and tartrazine etc., but even the use of mind altering chemicals
disguised as a sweet fruit drink didn't make me believe (except in the
delights of sweet fruit drinks)....
Vincent
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> From: Wade T.Smith
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:32 pm
> To: Memetics Discussion List
> Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>
> Hi Scott Chase -
>
> >Come to think of it, Sunday school could be considered far more humane
> >treatment of children than forcing them to ruminate on Kantian ethics.
>
> Not having the pleasure of ruminating upon Kantian ethics, I nevertheless
> was exposed, at a tender age, to a sunday school. My mother, a willingly
> lapsed methodist from a strong yankee family, took me one sunday, after
> dressing me up a bit, and let me know I could come every sunday if I
> liked it. I went, and although my memory is very skimpy about it, I do
> remember feeling a definite uncomfortableness, with the scene, with the
> instructor, and with the instruction, and I informed my mother that I did
> not want to return. She nodded, and we went for ice cream sundaes,
> instead.
>
> Perhaps I felt forced in that setting- I don't remember the concise
> feeling it gave me, if indeed it gave me a concise feeling at all, more a
> general unease- but it was not 'right' in some unexplained way.
>
> That it was decidedly false I didn't know until later, although it looks
> like I had some presentiment of this.
>
> So, perhaps if my mother had brought me to a class in Kantian ethics, I
> might have felt something not quite explainedly 'right'... maybe not....
>
> That said, fiction ain't 'wrong'....
>
> - Wade
>
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