threatdown

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 15:03:40 CDT 2012


Funny.  I almost missed that.  Terrance?  It seems your slip is showing...

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> If Madeleine says that (s)he is not Madeleine, then (s)he must be Iris.  Or
> Alice.  Or Terrence.  Or all of them.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madeleine Maudlin
> Sent: Jun 14, 2012 3:53 PM
> To: David Morris
> Cc: Iris Sirius , P-list
> Subject: Re: threatdown
>
> It would be pathologickly insane to attempt to deceive literature experts by
> acting like two different characters.  Enki himself could not do so, even
> acting like Enlil.
>
> This is my only proof that obviously I am not Madeleine: I am not
> pathologickly insane.  Although her name does look fake.
>
> But you have reminded me of something that would be appropriate if your icky
> sockpuppet insinuation were true:
>
> "Your Honor, you are too clever for us naughty people."
>
> If me and Madeleine sound alike to you, well, sexist.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You two sure do sound like a pair of sock-puppets, one in each hand of
>> the same person.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
>>
>> A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The
>> term—a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from
>> a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of
>> an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending
>> to be another person.[1] The term now includes other uses of
>> misleading online identities, such as those created to praise, defend
>> or support a third party or organization.[2] A significant difference
>> between the use of a pseudonym[3] and the creation of a sockpuppet is
>> that the sockpuppet poses as an independent third-party unaffiliated
>> with the puppeteer.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Iris Sirius <irissiriustce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Nobody's interested in playing your paranoid fantasy games, Mad.
>> >  They're
>> > too paranoid.  93% of the eight people on here know that nine eleven was
>> > an
>> > inside job, but the thing is, 911 worked, it made everybody afraid to be
>> > associated with evildoers, so you can't talk about evildoing even in a
>> > negative context, because we literary people no all about the evil
>> > problems
>> > contexts can cause.
>> >
>> > What more obvious place to seek evildoers than a Pynchon Club?  Of
>> > course
>> > we're being watched, observed, right?  We can't discuss where the Next
>> > Big
>> > Threat will be etc., because that will autiomatically raise suspicions.
>> >  Why
>> > are we discussing evildoing?  Hmm?  Even though everybody with half a
>> > brain
>> > knows that certain societies need periodic Big Threats to sustain
>> > themselves.  And when was the last one in the Land of the FreedomLovers?
>> >
>> > A good Chomsky exercise in totalitarian-shutdown would be to start an
>> > organization that studied where when and how would be the next big one,
>> > and
>> > then start investigating the who.  Accordingly to Noam, we'd all be fine
>> > until somebody started paying attention to us.  And the thing is, all
>> > eight
>> > people on this list believes there's a lot more than eight people on
>> > this
>> > list watching, listening, sniffing around, paying attention to the
>> > drunken
>> > rants of longing souls.
>> >
>> > I was going to end with Zarathustra, but I see all that is available is
>> > the
>> > Common translation, nevermind.  On Redemption, was it, something about a
>> > giant ear, Zarathustra wishing into it like some poor pining Mason for
>> > his
>> > Love?
>> >
>> > What is that about conscience, cruelty turned inward...?  Have our
>> > rulers no
>> > conscience?  No wait, no that's, that's way too ironic...
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
>> > <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have an idea when where and how the Next Big Threat to
>> >> freedomlovers is. going. to. be. and who will freedomlovers attack and
>> >> invade.in.response.to.?
>> >>
>> >> For example, London, 2012, summer olympics, computer virus, Tibet.
>> >>
>> >> Aren't there websites where you can make those bets, what are some?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
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