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[Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom wrote:

> "Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>Are memes 'real' or hypothetical?
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> Do you think they must be one or the other or that these are the only two
> choices?

Well, those are the two that you offered when I claimed it was more complex that
it seemed.
Changed your mind again?

>>What happens if you piss of the wrong meme in the wrong place?
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> You can't piss off a meme.  Nor are memes psychotic genocidal maniacs.

Big complex memes look just like personalities.
And act like them via their hosts.

>>>Look, I snuck a peek at the last chapter of the bible and, though I hate
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>>>spoil it for you, everything works out OK in the end.  But keep on
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>>Not to my satisfaction.
>>I'm on the losing side in their text.
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> It's just a book.  If you want to read a different one, go ahead.
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>>And Mein Kampf and Das Kapital are only books.
>>The Communist manifesto is only a flyer.
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> That's right.  They are only books.  Mein Kampf did not set up death camps.
> Das Kapital instituted no pogroms.  People did that.

I wonder why? I suspect it was something to do with information that those books
hosted, and which infected the readers.

> Censors like to think that books and thoughts are the enemy.  That's silly.

Nice to know there are no such things as enemies and that if there are, they
don't think.


>>The only thing that really exists is information and pattern.
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> Ah, now who's limiting the definition of existence?

I'm limiting it to known science.
Perhaps you care to expound some fantasy around 'crystal energy' or other
untestable bullshit? Or shall we 'keep it real'?

>>Matter and energy are only the dumb medium.
>>Reality is the interactions, and ideas, memes, achetypes have
>>bigger effects in the world than bulldozers.
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> So it seems when you're spending most of your time living in your head.

That's the only place anyone ever is.

FFF
Dirk

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