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From:
Adam Piontek
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Date:
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
[idm] Smoking our way to Mars
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--- Matthew Korfhage <pomomofo2000@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 14 lines From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>> From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com> > >Someone else said: > >>entire reason to smoke is its > >>absolute pointlessness > >>and harmfulness, it's a > >>bit sad. Aesthetics of decay, yo? > > > >That's the kind bullshit that intelligent people > >either outgrow in highschool or skip entirely... > > When do you think most of them started smoking, > anyway, kid? It's either > high school or college, where it's usually a social > act, or possibly in the
Really? Human actions often have social or symbolic reasons? Really? Thank you, professor. Let's get beyond the 1960s and realize that, regardless of how much time we waste with cultural studies and arguments about nature vs. nurture, humans are still idiotic.
quoted 3 lines Subsuming the symbolic value of acts to their use> Subsuming the symbolic value of acts to their use > value is a bit of a > disease.
It is always good to attempt to examine all sides of things in order to make adequate choices. I didn't subsume anything. I made a joke. Outside of the occasional review, I write almost nothing to this list in line with my true thoughts, because, outside of the occasional review, I have no respect for this list.
quoted 8 lines With people like you leading the world's cultures,> >With people like you leading the world's cultures, > >I'm never going to get to go to Mars. > > With (would-be) space tourists like you consuming > all the resources and > dumping tons of pollutants into the atmosphere with > every launch, I'm never > going to get to live here sustainably.
Ha. I don't want to tour space, I want to colonize it. We'll need to sooner than we think, thanks to smokers and SUV buyers. Or at least thanks to the attitudes and lack of willpower that leads people to those activities. It's nice to know there will always be people ready to take me seriously when I'm being very much the reverse. Otherwise, a large source of my daily entertainment would be lost. -Capt. Biff "Rocketship" Hardneck aka. Big McLargehuge aka. Adam "Willpower" Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org