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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Apology to net.philosophy and Rich Rosen
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:21:26 EDT
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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Today, using either real or imaginary free will, I will try to be a
sensitive human being who has once again experienced the intrinsic weakness
of subjective perceptions.

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    F O R M A L   A P O L O G Y   T O    N E T . P H I L O S O P H Y

        A N D   E S P E C I A L L Y   R I C H   R O S E N

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    I, Michael Ellis hereby apologize to net.philosophy and to Rich Rosen
    for recent unphilosophical, ignorant and arrogant remarks, and hereby
    retract all unkind assertions concerning Rich Rosen and his
    contributions to this newsgroup, which have in fact been genuinely
    valuable, if sometimes obnoxious, but certainly undeserving of the abuse
    I heaped.
    
    The flaws one attributes to others are invariably those possessed by
    oneself; consequently I am badly stung by my own hostile remarks towards
    you, Rich. I am sorry.

    Furthermore, it was pretentious and overly ambitious for someone with my
    primitive level of understanding of QM to speak with such overbearing
    certainty about the confusing quantum phenomena I mentioned.  After all,
    I am not a scientist, and many divergent philosophical interpretations
    have been proposed to describe the `true reality underlying quantum
    events'.
    
    Please flame as appropriate at any of my misconceptions or sloppy
    terminology, since nobody gains when falsehood stands unchallenged. 
    
    True philosophy comes from the love of wisdom, not the stupidity of anger.

-michael