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From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Dec 6 01:57:20 2004
Message-ID: <120620040657.16337.41B402CB0003BC0800003FD121602807410299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

Doug,

I try to understand what you say but how does confabulations translate into the point you're making? I've read it several times and I just don't get it. The other variations make sense.

Bill


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From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com
> Sterling ftrongly, wrote:
>
> >As for consistency, Doug, besides being the hobgoblin
> >of small minds, everyone spelt and lettered as the spirit >took them within the
> broad framework of the language.
>
> HmmmÆ’Æ’Æ’ Sterling, probably everyone fmelt and smelt, not alike. I wouldn't
> use words as strong as cannonballs tonight. I bet the epitome of a
> philosopher's philosophy you quoted at least originally meant something but so
> quite different (and political) when written something like:
>
> "A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
> statesmen and philosophers and divines."
>
> Otherwise then, without the foolish, why even bother to classify meteorites, or
> anything else except philosophize eternally? Certainly not to make a point in
> logic. God doesn't require a label on meteorites to appreciate their beauty:)
> You've provided the ultimate argument against the necessity for standard
> classification in that thought, if there is any consistency to be had in the
> world! Or maybe there really is a point then. Howardite, Eucrite, Where's
> Waldo? Certainly not in the diogenite... Hats off to some majestically American
> hatched thought...
>
> I know, I can't argue with anything you said, if we boldly throw ALL consistency
> out the window only to contradict tomorrow. Or is it just foolish?
>
> Lest we forget, ccientific advancement and logical thought has a bafis or at
> leaft bafeline in confiftency. I fo do agree with your fumming-up poft
> Sterling, of courfe, of courfe, my kingdom for a horfe. Attributed to
> fakesphere.:)
> Finest falutations, Doug
> (Bill, pleafe erafe this poft fhould that it naught be of appeal to thee or
> fomehow offenfive. I am trying to find mine Doug infide, fadly loft fomewhere
> in a defert rainbow. Of courfe fhould thy contrary be, I'd covet thy public
> confabulations:))
>
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