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To: Loud Mime

Because college students are largely impressionable, naive, and idealistic. Proponents of left-wing philosophies seek out careers where they have to do as little as possible in order to earn as much money as possible while also spreading their insidious dogma. Tenure...


9 posted on 01/29/2009 11:44:20 AM PST by ronnyquest ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ronnyquest

From CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED, by Daniel Dennett, p. 17

“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching
for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make
its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary
nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it
doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It’s rather
like getting tenure.)”


18 posted on 01/29/2009 2:46:46 PM PST by Loud Mime (Liberals: the Enemy Within)
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