- From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:28:01 -0500
- To: Robert Meersman <Robert.Meersman@vub.ac.be>
- CC: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>, Stand Up Ontology <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>, RDF Logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>, Matthew West <Matthew.R.West@is.shell.com>, SemioCom <semiocom@listbot.com>, Arisbe <arisbe@stderr.org>
¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤ Robert Meersman wrote: > > At 28-01-01 02:15, Jon Awbrey wrote: > > > > Because this point is really important, > > and I have already failed to convey it, > > as far as I can tell, in several other > > ways that I have tried up to this point, > > I am going to try and say it another way, > > and this time focus on a single aspect > > of the underlying problem, as I see it. > > Excuse me. > I just joined this list. > Is this statement typical? Hi, Robert, I will assume that when you ask "Is this statement typical?" that you are not trying to be cute in a self-ir/reverent way, but that you are referring to the statement of mine that you cited as justly precursive to yours. Each person here is responsible for the way that he or she conducts his or her own speech, indeed, for the way that he or she communes with his or her own thoughts, if not to mention, for the moment, the often stormed-tossed relation-ship between that love-born and strife-torn twainship of parallel narratives about this, our common and sheared uni-di-trans-verse. And so I shall limit myself to commenting on my own contributions to the general siren-ship and steerage of this very motley crew. No, I cannot say that this statement of mine is "typical", but only because I have lost the whereabouts of where the proto-type lies, whether or not I ever knew its location, and whether or not it lies or says soothly, but I can tell you that it is pretty close to being perfectly "average", at least, in its intention, as I was "meaning" to place it right about in the middle of the range of those extremes over which I am forced or given to range. As a matter of fact, this particular satement was intended to be a clarification, a correction, and a "toning down" of a previous attempt to address its same subject, but whether any satement does indeed succeed in its intent is not for that satement, or its sater, to say. > Next, are messages with subject "Re:Signation" to be taken seriously? > > Or perhaps I just happened to join at a more lighthearted moment? All of my messages are meant to be taken just in the spirit that they are given, in the Rx for that delirium that finds itself compounded, in equal measure, of the sublime and the ridiculous, that we call our human, all too human sensibility. And, in that humor, as you well know, the most serious stuff will often get said in the most lighthearted jokes, for that is the form of ducking and covering that this steersman-ship of humanity frequently needs to protect the hatchlink of its most sensitive cargoes. That particular subject line has a history -- as all of them do -- and since you missed it, I will repeat the record of it for you -- being "in medias res" myself, my sympathies are with you, still, its history precedes me, so here is just where I lately came in: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00497.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00499.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00502.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00503.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00504.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00510.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00512.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00513.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00514.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00518.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00519.html http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/logs/ontology/msg00520.html > Thx! And pls, hopefully no offense given. None accepted. Jon Awbrey ¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤~~~~~~~~~¤
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