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----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: Fw: playing at suicide
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
> To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: playing at suicide
>
>
> > Hi Grant,
> > I am 4 days behind with my post, so....you wrote,
> >
> > > For a loner, you seem to communicate with a lot of people.
> >
> > << You can compare this with having a LAT- relationship. I communicate
> > with the people upon this list and others but I stay on my island, as
you
> > put
> > it. Communicating does not mean to spill out all of your gut feelings.
> > Don 't get me wrong, I love memetics and I like the discussions, but to
be
> > part of a ' group ' is not my cop of tea. I am, from your point of view,
> and
> > I understand I am, but it is not with my content.
> >
> > But most of the kids I grew up with were not really
> > > indoctrinated. They just went along with what their parents were
doing
> > > because that's what they felt comfortable with. The tribal part came
> with
> > > the peers they decided to hang around with.
> >
> > << Do you think so !? Are you pretty sure !? You say it in the above,
not
> > really indoctinated, but they followed just their parents !? What is the
> > difference !? Where is your choise in this !? Indoctrination can take
many
> > forms.
> > Did your parents or your grandmother never said not to hang out with
cer-
> > tain kind of guys and people !? You can call it, protection if you like,
> but
> > deep within you are indoctrinated with all kind of belief- systems. You
> can
> > not escape it ! Is the notion not to have sex before marriage a kind of
> in-
> > doctrination or a way of protecting you against the hazzards of life !?
> >
> > And maybe is it very hard to believe but I do not have a circle of
> friends,
> > or a particular friend for that matter. If you call memetics a group
with
> a
> > simular view on evolution than you can call us, me part of a '
religion',
> I
> > have
> > a particular attitude, it was my choise, but then again, it was '
forced'
> > upon
> > me due to certain cicumstances. This list does have a positive attitude
> upon
> > me, I learn a lot, I meet interesting people, but that is not, IMO, as
> much
> > as a religious choise ! Please !
> >
> > I ain 't gonna say that your point of view is due to the ways where into
> you
> > were raised, as much as me, but the difference lies in the way you and I
> see
> > the world around us. You were, that can be found in your post, always
> > surrounded with other people, moreover, you deliberate seeked out, or
they
> > searched for you, other guys, to hang out with. I did not !
> > You were ' indoctrinated ' by the notion of being part of some peer-
> group,
> > I was not, I am an individual, due like I said by cicumstances beyond my
> > control.
> > The way by which you see how members of societies act is just due to
that
> > fact, you think in the ' group ' form, I am more individualistic.
> >
> > Everybody, picked out peers who dare to rebel, no matter how you de-
> > terminate that term. I did too, but after a while I saw the
imcompleteness
> > of such a group and lost interest, still.
> > Religion is not only the practical side of the matter, though.
> > I live in Belgium, a very old catholic region of the world. Our laws,
our
> > rules, behavior, ethics, manners, attitudes, language are packed with
> > christian dispositions. It is not that I did not attend a catholic
school
> > that
> > I wasn 't indoctrinated with their garbage. We, your daughter, you and I
> > pick up memes, unconsciously and live by their rules.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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