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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 09:46:17 CDT
From: Rex Black <rex@iquery.iqsc.com>
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Subject: hypocrisy, tradition, dr. foo and his flied lice...
> From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
> After all, remember that Hypocrisy is one worn, scorned, scorched, and
> sinful generation's way of passing along high ideals to the next, even
> though they themselves are unable to live up to them.
"When you can rationalize any of your actions as a public service, young
grasshopper, you will be ready to leave...and begin a successful
political career."
However, far be it from me to suggest that our most worthy Right
Reverend is actually H. Ross Perot in lurker mode. Rather than curse
the darkness, let me light a candle...or perhaps it's a flame-thrower?
Given the need to pass on to the novices those secrets of the Net, shall
we now exhume the most holy moldy corpse of (drumroll, Gregorian chants,
etc.) Craig Shergold? Shall we wreak havoc on the by-ways of the mighty
UseNet by resending that holiest of relics, which reads in part, "whose
dying wish is to set a Guiness record for most sympathy cards received"?
Shall we again perpetrate a cruel hoax on the con and torture the
innocent staff of an English hospital with eighty or so tons of sappy,
tear-stained cards? Shall we loose chaos from her formless cage, for
the education of the uninitiated?
Or is the resending of this e-mail now a Federal offense?
"Grilled Spam, Liver and Onions Pub Style" Rex
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
Message-Id: <9309071859.AA17350@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
To: soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
Cc: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: your question
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 07 Sep 93 00:04:54 -0400.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 14:59:55 EDT
} Subgenius Digest Tue, 7 Sep 93 Volume 4 : Issue 174
}...
} From: soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
} Subject: The Nachman of Bratzlav
}
} A son left his father and sojourned in many lands for many days.
} When it was time, he came to his father and boasted that he had learned
} a great skill, to make hanging candelabrum. He commanded his father to
} gather all the masters of this art and he would show them his genius in
} their craft....
}
} The son responded: 'Nevertheless, thus I have revealed my
} greatness, for I have shown to all of them their shortcomings....
}
} Does anyone have any input on how what the author meant by this?
} Just curious,
}
} Sofia Krkljus Soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
Dear Sofia,
The story makes more sense when you include the final line:
"And so all the assembled masters, honked-off beyond reason, killed the
little bastard."
Alternatively, it can be seen as a parable of the Rabbinic range wars of
the day.
- -- dr foo
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From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
To: soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
Cc: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: your question
In-Reply-To: <00972318.EB40F880.27100@ufcc.ufl.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 19:05:16 EDT
} Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 15:05:40 EDT
} From: soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
} Subject: RE: your question
Soap,
} Hey! i didn't ask for crude comments, I was being serious.
So was I. Here, in the Subgenius Digest, sometimes the wisdom you want
comes as all sorts of crudeness. It is for you to examine the answers
to see how a "crude comment" may be what you seek. This teaches the
finding of our own natural Slack.
Besides, the second part of my answer is _exactly_ what was going on
there. That story really was an allegory about the struggle among the
Rabbinical schools at the time. Ask our occasional contributor, the Reb
Lamed Vufnik, he'll tell you.
And third, if they didn't horsewhip the little poseur, they should have;
and teaching children otherwise misleads them.
} I was questioning the idea of perfection being relative, and
} whether there was an absolute perfection, philisophical things, I wasn't
} kidding.
Okay, you asked: Perfection as an absolute was the first and biggest
mistake the Greek philosophers made. Every other boneheaded conclusion
they made from stems from that.
Bob Dobbs said, "You can build a suspension bridge out of Perfect
Cheeseburgers, but it won't be worth a damn!" And after a few trucks
drive over it, it'll taste lousy, too. "Perfection" must be relative.
It has no discernable meaning otherwise. Only by an accident of
language does "absolute perfection" appear to mean anything.
} Though your remark was funny, it's not what i was looking for.
} Soap
Are you sure?
- -- Water
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