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Answering your SOS call -- oh, it's you again Mr.Gaede.

Adam, I know it is hard for a political activist with an upcoming election to hear this, but please, do not align yourself to a doomsday deadline. America is stronger than ideology. It has survived every idea anybody ever thought up. America will live and freedom shall ring.

Dear Diary, Harry is brazening it out and what can one do? "They told me it would stay in Vegas. It is not my fault. I am not married after all" and so on. And this! "Kate's cousin thinks it is a good example that a young man is comfortable with his body." The cheek! "That is all fine and well", said I, "but how many other bodies did you get comfortable with? Did they all take bloody videos? " He rolled his eyes around and would not answer me. Maybe Papa should get M16 to talk to him again. I give up. Ich dien, William

But Michael, I did not see any scapegoating. You were uncomplimentary to wss I thought, in casting him as the storyteller dupe, or basher in your paradigm - and I would say the same of him, if he had done the same to you. I admit I have not thought through the whole hypothesis so may not understand the perspective from which you are writing. I am not aware of cliques on OL either, as I have not been invited to join any. Is that a bad sign?

Gulch, I think this is the only time I have ever agreed with you, but good for you. Johnson is head and shoulders above the rest of them. if I were an Objectivist he would be my Abe Lincoln.

and anyway, it is not touchy feely language, but history and geography, that determine the effects of political ideology on a population. Do you really think of Canada as North Korea? Of Denmark as the cold war East Germany?

Good grief, Adam! Are you suggesting that I want to enslave you ? (you wish) Tony made a nice personal reference and I responded in kind with an allusion to the South African national fish. You of all people, I thought, would appreciate the tone of the exchange.

You may indeed Tony. Thank you. And may I say in return, you are my favourite Galjoen Galtgulcher.

Hey, Michael's comeback hard to understand was not very complimentary. Carol Just saying

Using your hypothesis, Michael, I can see the scientists as Witnesses, and the Sheldrakes as Noetic Science Saviour of Mankind storytellers. I am aware that scientists are used, sometimes willingly, for destructive ends by power lusters., But science itself is not about power but about reality insofar as we are able to perceive it, about observable facts.

What forms of writing are you examining? Nonfiction only?

You don't hurt my feelings, Michael. And I am certainly sorry if I have hurt yours, or George's.I never meant to.

Yes,they requested the free books that were offered. i am sorry about the millions, i was thinking of the readers of th e books.

You are right MEM, money is not funny.The humour isn't merely cheap btw, it's free.

Onkar, with respect, those millions of schoolteachers did not request Rand's books. You offered to send them for free.School boards are cash strapped as everyone knows.

The Glorie of Laurie. Thanks ND.

Paul, You mean something like I Love Lucy? Now that would be some causality for ya'. Michael Naah... came to Canada a little after that. More like Gilligan's Island. Although, as an 8 year old in the early 70s in England, life stopped for Match of the Day on Saturdays and Star Trek on Wednesdays. But how could life continue without Corrie on Sundays?

On Amazon you can get it used for $1.98, why's it so much more in Austin? Was it a signed copy, maybe personalized in some unique way? "To Wilma, loved the caveman sex, but maybe next time we can do it without Fred and Dino watching? You're mouth's like velvet. Woof Woof! George." That book was stolen from me! I'm suing! Wilma

A second impression. Has it been proven that we shape all our stories in reaction to "fight or flight": that is, do we always feel subconsciously endangered, and therefore need Savior narratives? Is this the dominant signal for that particular cognitive process?

Nailed me.

Cigerrettes ere demn anjoyable.

What kind of writer am I Michael, and what is my core story?

Michael, This seems to be a whole other topic than the Sheldrake stuff, another area entirely. It will take me a while to absorb and try to understand it all. My first reaction though, from your first quote, that we change experience input into our own stories - does this really align with Rand's "percepts"? You know I am no Objectivist scholar and am not trying to poke holes. I am only asking. The trend of your thought here seems to go beyond Objectivism.

I assume you are neutral, with conflicted loyalties, as mawdsley is the mist English soinding name I ever heard. One assumes you are a neutral with conflicting loyalties, as Mawdsley is the most English sounding name ever.

Oh man, just when I thought I could get away with lip service to the Lifelong Learning dogma.. OK, I'll follow up a bit. I f I can understand this stuff, anybody can.