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Re: materialism

From: vickie@pilot.njin.net (Vickie Mapes)
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 93 13:41:17 EDT
Subject: Re: materialism
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nessus@media.mit.edu (Douglas Alan) writes:

>In article <9304020404.AA07619@pilot.njin.net> vickie@pilot.njin.net
>(Vickie Mapes) writes: 

>>   I've lived with this guy (Chris, not Jorn) for 11 years and I never
>>   noticed that he was materialistic before. That's a new one on me.
>>   We have "stuff" (hey, gotta have entertainment!) but we have no car, no
>>   credit cards and live in an apartment.

>I don't mean to be pendantic, but I believe that Jorn had a different
>meaning of the world "materialism" in mind:

>ma.te.ri.al.ism \m*-'tir-e--*-.liz-*m\ \-l*st\ \-.tir-e--*-'lis-tik\

Just testing you :-) Yes, Jorn was being serious, but I was trying to make
a joke about it. I forgot the smiley.

Vickie