[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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