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To: RLK
What I suggest is that you study the work in its entirity and its integration into the whole rather than read a few sentences and rush back here eager to spout off.

This comes down to the old question of, "What if everybody did that?"

Even Tolstoy managed to cram War and Peace into a mere 692 pages. Couldn't you have gotten an editor or something? Free Republic would be a pretty dead place if everybody kept 1200 pages of stuff on a web site somewhere, and demanded that other people read all of it before they can discuss anything. That's just ridiculous, so stop it.

I did not "psychoanalyze" you. I merely pointed out that your argument in Section 10 is a variation on the age-old White Knight to Queen's Rook gambit, and that it was therefore an example of the very thing you were decrying. I did offer instinct and habit as possible explanations for your behavior, and perhaps that was speculative, but the alternatives appear to be more damning.

I noticed that in another note, you were quick to distance yourself from the Orlin Grabbe site when it was pointed out that the site is currently featuring a photo of some attractive young ladies strutting their stuff. You have nothing to do with that, you don't approve of it, and you don't want to be tarred with it.

Fair enough, but then how do you justify bundling all men into a class associated with Playboy magazine and Hugh Hefner? At its height, Playboy had a circulation of about 7 million, a tiny fraction of the adult male population. Tens of millions of men had nothing to do with Playboy and didn't even know that Hefner was spouting something called "The Playboy Philosphy." I think you're trying to have it both ways here. You want to tie the adult male population to Playboy magazine, but if anyone does the same thing to you, that's an outrage. That act is not real persuasive.

158 posted on 04/21/2002 1:40:03 PM PDT by Nick Danger
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To: Nick Danger
"Fair enough, but then how do you justify bundling all men into a class associated with Playboy magazine and Hugh Hefner?"

Art follows philosophy. Entertainment imitates art, and society and its members unconsciously follow art and makes entertainers role models. The aesthetic and behavioral paradigms started by Playboy have had a rippling, cascade effect which has swamped prior sexual morality to the fringes and has made mercenary sexuality a defining feature of the USA. For verification, just read samples of newspapers for the last forty years.

160 posted on 04/21/2002 2:13:04 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Nick Danger
Free Republic would be a pretty dead place if everybody kept 1200 pages of stuff on a web site somewhere, and demanded that other people read all of it before they can discuss anything. That's just ridiculous, so stop it.

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Nobody's forcing you or anybody else to go to another site to read material. It isn't changing Freerepublic if I post material at another site. If this place bores you then you can stop coming here. I doubt that you will be missed.

164 posted on 04/21/2002 4:33:13 PM PDT by RLK
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