[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

J Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Tue Jun 18 16:56:37 UTC 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeme A Brelin" <jeme at brelin.net>
To: "PLUG off-topic discussion" <plug-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)


>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, J Henshaw wrote:
> > Quesitions like can a person delegate more authority than he has, and
> > can his delegate have more authority than the person he serves?
>
> I didn't see this question before, but I believe the answer is that a
> delegate can have more authority than a single person he serves becuase
> the delegate can be vested with the power of multiple persons.

The answer is no,  actually.
These are yes or no questions.

>
> > Questions like, can a country attack itself?
>
> A country can attack its people.  There are numerous examples.

Irrelevant,  and you redirect again. Slow down on the hemp. It's affecting
your short-term memory.

> I have been attacked by representatives of this State and it has been
> determined that they had the legal authority to do so.  If we assume that
> the legal authority of the state comes from the people, then I was,
> somehow, in part, attacking myself against my will.

No,  they were probably told you were insane. The above statement would seem
to indicate you are separated from reality most of the time.

>
> However, Oregon doesn't have a clause quite like the Constitution of
> Virginia has in Section 2.

Irrelevant

>
> > The reason no one connects the dots is because they don't answer the
> > questions I ask as steeping stones toward understanding.
>
> You are not Socrates.

Irrelevant

>
> No one connects the dots because, as Jeremy said, they are unnumbered and
> were revealed out of sequence, on different pages.  You can connect the
> dots if you know what you're trying to draw... maybe.
>
> When I was 11, my public school class was given little cards with existing
> constellations of stars marked on them, but neither the name nor the
> outline of the constellation was given.  We were told to "connect the
> dots" and write a story about the constellation and why it is in the
> heavens.  I don't think any of the drawings matched the constellations
> conceived and documented by the ancients.

So you have been having trouble seeing since at least age 11.

>
> Moral:  There are lots of different ways of connecting the same dots that
> are equally valid drawings.

But she was looking for constellations,  not scribble

>
> J.
> --
>    -----------------
>      Jeme A Brelin
>     jeme at brelin.net

Moral:  In the new math,  every answer is correct.








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