[ExI] Singularity as a complex adaptive system - What does theenvironment look like?

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 14:32:57 UTC 2007


On Dec 19, 2007 12:19 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> > hmm... I guess if you can't laugh at yourself, you should learn to
> > laugh collectively at all of humanity  :)
>
> I can already do both, Mike.  My strategy is to laugh with myself, at
> humanity.  Then when I get tired of that, I do it the other way around.
> Derisively of course.  Its the best kind of laughter, so long as it is
> *sincerely* derisive.

Yeah, many of this list's members do.

I find especially amusing the fact that I've gotten more replies by
baiting messages with rhetorical taglines than any thoughtful
discourse on a topic.  Perhaps that's what makes fortune cookies so
profound - they're all tagline with no discourse  :)



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