From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 03:02:10 MDT
Actually, I forget how big this list is, and how diverse the
readership. My post was only for fun, and was only a take
off on Damien's jokes about providential economy of souls.
Lee Corbin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Corbin [mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:40 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: On Silesians
>
> Damien wrote
>
> > I wonder if this Blessed Being, Which is of course all-merciful as
> > well as all-knowing, might also foresee an abortion in the fated
> > future of a given proto-embryo and hence decline to ensoul it?
> > Possibly this thrifty providence would also apply to Lee's doomed
> > babies, which would therefore actually be disposable zombies rather
> > than real people. Maybe it applies to all Silesians as well.
>
> Not at all! No joke: I was personally assured by a high-ranking
> director at Deutsche Telekom, our esteemed customer, who is half-
> Silesian himself, that the Silesians constitute the finest race in
> Europe. And this was weeks before I learned that Dr. Smigrodzky
> is Silesian!
> If I were you, I would keep my slanderous remarks confined to
> the debasement of individuals, and forego put-downs of entire
> races, especially the most noble.
>
> Lee
>
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