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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 05, 2014 9:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] christine again again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:19 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>Does anyone here hang out on MENSA?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I do, but if she wasn't, then forwarding this to them would be inappropriate. "Someone who has no direct connection to this group or any member of this group was shot."<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I've found that one-link connections are usually fine (i.e., she's a friend of yours, and you're in this group), but two or more are usually not (i.e., she's a friend of yours and you are a friend of mine, and I'm in this other group but you are not). Exceptions exist for people well known to the audience in question, but that does not apply here<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, but all acts of charity and kindness are always exempt from the kinds of protocols and standards to which we normally hold other activities, for it is always appropriate and good. I request an exception to the usual protocol further justified by this notion: if anyone makes national headlines as an innocent victim, they become in a sense a friend to all, for we all can imagine some crazy coming into our own office and blasting away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.rgj.com/article/20131218/NEWS/312180091/Wounded-Reno-doctor-critical-condition">http://www.rgj.com/article/20131218/NEWS/312180091/Wounded-Reno-doctor-critical-condition</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja I know it isn’t the usual thing to be asked to send get well wishes to strangers, however this is a rare chance to show it is possible to have a brain and a heart at the same time. I promise I won’t spam the list with good deed opportunities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As an aside, I have a motorcycle group who responded to the request without reservations; in fact they are ahead of us. But do not be shamed, for it is not the first time in history this has happened. The first time in recorded history of being beaten by a motorcycle gang might be this, from the old testament book of Judges, chapter 1 verse 19: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=text><sup>19 </sup>And the </span><span class=small-caps><span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span></span><span class=text> was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>{8^D OK so god couldn’t take them, but he was omnipotent in a lot of other ways. Tough sons a bitches, those iron chariot guys. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Adrian, your concern is noted and I mostly agree. We don’t want to clutter these email lists even with opportunities to do zero-cost good deeds, even if for someone who would be one of us, if she had sufficient leisure time. Citing the news story takes us out of the loop and connects the MENSA list directly with the victim. We need not reference she is an associate of mine, or a friend of a friend of a friend, any of that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>