[lbo-talk] Reich on sex & religion

[snit snat]

At 08:59 PM 12/29/2004, Jon Johanning wrote:
>On Dec 29, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Manjur Karim wrote:
>
>>But see, even a simple statement such as "there are two chairs in the 
>>room" makes sense only if we agree on what is a chair, what is number 
>>two, and what is a room.
>
>Sure, but most of the time we do. Only when particular problems arise with 
>any of them would we stop and try to iron them out. This is especially the 
>case with the number 2 -- how could there be controversy about that? Sure, 
>as Kel points out, we could dispute about whether a packing crate was a 
>chair, but we hardly ever do outside of a philosophy classroom.

Noper! When is a chair not a chair?! I was just in a place, doing some 
Christmas shopping at the Tarpon sponge docks where I was not allowed to 
sit in a chair! Where was I?

I don't get out much, so it wasn't anyplace especially unique, someplace we 
are often enough where a chair is not a chair! :)

I want an answer to my question, damn it! (Besides, it's slooooooooow on 
this list and I was disappointed to come in from long hours refinishing 
furniture-can't get the damn white paint flecks out of the walnut!-to find 
that no one had at least attempted an answer!

I can see I'm going to have to throw some leftist trivia questions at y'all 
to get some conversation going!

k

it's the paint fumes

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