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"Becker, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Kitty tortillas! <[log in to unmask]>
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I think it's a fascinating study of how we fill in the blanks according to our world view when we lack information. And presume our view is so inerrant as to fail to question the lack of information. Because there isn't a lack of information...we filled it in.

Yossarian


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From:   Gabriel Orgrease [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Sat 8/16/2003 10:12 AM
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Subject:             Re: Am I a republican?
[log in to unmask] wrote:

> *In a message dated 8/15/2003 11:28:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> *
>
>> Well, do I ever feel silly!   Talk about geo-centricity!   I always
>> though
>> the Bullamanka St. John's server was in St. John's, New Brunswick!
>
>
> *
> Cuyler,
>
> If it makes you feel any better, I somehow thought this St Johns place
> was some dopey school somewhere in upstate New York, which Ken had
> conned into doing whatever it is that they do to "host" the Pinheads.
>
> Duh.
> Einstein  *

There was a bit of an inadvertent con... thus we are nested in a deep
recess of obscurity within the fruity nutso department. Is there a
comparable term between geo-centric and mental-centric, as in,
individual people, even in small groups and virtual communities, tend to
believe they are the sane ones?

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