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Re: PARDON?

 >>>coming up with a set of Commandments to govern this
list would be infinitely harder than just letting it do its own thing,
read-
what-you-like, ignore-what-you-don't.  <<<<<

I couldn't agree more!

Linda
Laguna, NM
 

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> From: Sharkkb8@aol.com
> To: terrafirma@ibm.net; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: PARDON?
> Date: Friday, July 10, 1998 1:31 AM
> 
> <<  We must be able to  use our judgment to distinguish between what is
> acceptable and what isn't.  >>
> 
> While I am sympathetic to the tone and intent of Julia's post, how long
will
> it take 
> before we all finally realize that there is no such thing as "OUR
judgment"?  
> How could a bunch of such wonderful, diametrically-opposed, idiosyncratic
> personalities possibly have "OUR" anything?  Some of the same folks who
were
> screaming about commercialism a week ago, are now going into exquisite
detail
> about their own personal economic theories, even if quick to add that it
"will
> be the last time they speak on the subject".    MORE blood, sweat, and
tears
> have been shed by MORE list-members in MORE posts, trying to come up with
MORE
> definitions of rules about this list, than have been spent on meteorite-
> subjects, even though THAT is what these same people CLAIM to want to
> exclusively read.  The same folks who used to simply post "let's please
get
> back to meteorites" are
> now solemnly offering THEIR versions of what's OK and what's not.  They
are 
> writing non-meteorite-posts, in order to complain about
non-meteorite-posts. 
> The point is, the more we all say our peace, the more apparent it is (or
> should be)
> that we are a primordial soup of loud, mellow, eloquent, simple,
passionate,
> calm,
> introspective, outrageous, scientific, amateur, precise, disorganized,
sacred
> and profane hominids who will never ever ever ever ever be stuffed into a
> nice, neat package which will please EVERYONE, and never should be.  So
why
> continue to waste time trying?  (and trying, and trying, and trying,
and....)
> I said a month ago that coming up with a set of Commandments to govern
this
> list would be infinitely harder than just letting it do its own thing,
read-
> what-you-like, ignore-what-you-don't.  
> I told you so.         Gregory
> 
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