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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:03:59 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
> Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > So just because your dad happened to build a house somewhere, you think • the
> > whole world should bow down and provide all the "niceties" of life,
> > regarless of whether the location your dad built his house on was a • sensible
> > location?
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> It's a very sensible location. It's land that has been in the family for a
> while and has unmeasurably high personal value. In fact, there are lots of
> equally valuable connections to places and people in the surrounding
> community, despite the "nonsensibility" of a slight majority of the
> neighbors.
>
> But like I said, there are many people with even deeper (moral, social,
> financial, historical) attachments to their location than those my family
> has. Are they just being "silly"?
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> > If they can build it for a cost which is worthwhile to them, they will
> > build it. If it costs more than it is worth to them, then it's cost is • more
> > than it's worth to them. Perhaps
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> What if it costs more than they _have_?
I posted a message to RTL that said, WTB 4558, 4536, 4547, 4549, 4554,
2150 in boxes or sealed. Unfortunately, I can't afford them all right now.
Will you buy them for me? Or am I SOL?!
--
Have fun!
John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
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| (...) If having access to Lego provides a better [1] society, than it's probably something we want to work towards. (Having Lego in schools might be a good way.) Since I think that universal education is very beneficial, it's something I think (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Fair enough, but I still disagree :) I would say that a worthy artist is one who produces worthy art. I would also suggest that the requirement of any form of suffering or willingness to suffer, on behalf of the artist, is an intellectual one (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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