Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:00:32 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 06:51:25, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 13, 1999 at 05:25:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On December 13, 1999 at 04:59:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On December 12, 1999 at 09:48:31, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>> >>>>Mind you, I also think that without intuitions, whatever that is, exact, >>>>verifiable thinking tends to sterility, so from my let's call it feminine >>>>intuition (astrologically I am the intuitive cancer, double cancer in fact, >>>>soon triple I guess :(, what crap this astrology), and going back to this >>> >>>Triple-cancer? >> >>Not yet... :) >> >>Enrique > >I just hope you don't go on any binges of "intuition". :)) Not quite, no. I only meant this as a joke. > I have a rather singular >cousin who is quite enough. She is convinced she receives messages from spirits, >and is capable of great "predictions". For example, she "predicted" my sister's >baby was going to be a boy. She isn't completely hopeless as she HAS learned not >to try to repeat this sort of nonsense in front of me. Even stranger is that she >is also of the opinion that my opinions are sacrosanct, so anything I utter is >the TRUTH. I used to think this was funny, and abuse it at times, but I've >become a little more compassionate with time, and try not to. This most >particularly after an episode where I told her that drinking two spoons of cough >syrup instead of the prescribed one would cause her hair to fall off and change >her complexion blue. The next thing I knew, she was running around the house >with her hands on her head (so as to keep her hair from falling off) in absolute >hysterics. I'm now more cautious with what I tell her. > > Albert Silver > >BTW, just for the record, I'm an Aries. Funny story this one of your cousin. Here where I live there is a community of what I call shipwrecks that are real believers, believers in anything as long as it is esoteric. It's a charming bunch of nutcases. My problem relating to them is that I play chess and use computers, therefore I am hopelessly rational. :) Enrique >> >>> Boy, I hope you've got insurance to cover the cost of chemo. ;-) >>> >>>Dave
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