From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 18:19:36 MST
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> > How useful can this list be if debate fails upon any real difference of
> > opinion? How can we debate or disagree while maintaining useful dialog?
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> With lots of very clever people with very different experiences and
> perspectives, I don't think the purpose of the discussions is to form
> a "correct" opinion....
A real purpose of this list is not only to be wonderfully informative
and hugely entertaining [succeeds at both] but to archive ideas for
the indefinite future. I can imagine extropian archives will be researched
in the distant future for the first mention of some really terrific ideas.
Scary thought. spike
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