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Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:53:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Franks writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Erik Olson writes:
> > > Anyway, it's time to wrap up this essay. I think there is a time to
> > > label something a meme, but only when you want to emphasize its
> > > propogation and nothing deeper.
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> > It might have been an essay, but it was a good one :) Thanks for this - I
> > understand your previous message now! The meme-meme is an easy one to grasp
> > but hard to master. I can't say I've mastered it yet, but I do find it
> > interesting :)
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> In addition to religions, some of the more fascinating memes (IMHO) include
> Internet hoaxes or urban legends -- for example the so-called "Good Times
> Virus" hoax or the so-called "Mrs. Fields' Cookies Rcecipe" messages. It's
> fascinating how those memes continue to propagate -- and since they're
> archived in bazillions of places on the Net, they're virtually indestructable
> as long as they are unsuspecting newbie hosts.
Yeah, I know. :/
Unfortunately, the 'net doesn't have very effective antibodies.
Fortunately, bandwidth just keeps going up. :)
Whenever I do get sent this sort of thing, I tend to reply with SARC's
URL.(1) It seems to be working, since I get less of them.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
1:http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
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