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Old 07-08-2002, 11:49 AM   #1
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Post Does Ed really exist?

Ed goes on and on about how we naturalists can't trust our senses. But if that's the case, then we can't really be sure that this poster Ed, even exists. He might NOT even exist. How many here choose act on the possibility that Ed doesn't exist by ignoring these apparently phantom messages?

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perhaps Ed is really akin to Card's Jane save for all of Jane's access to reliable information.

Anyone with me here on this?
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I personally think Ed is a bot designed to automatically post messeges by repdonding to certain key word in a post.
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Originally posted by l-bow:
<strong>Ed goes on and on about how we naturalists can't trust our senses. </strong>

Ed sounds like an Ayn Rand character, and not one of the good ones either.
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Ed sounds like an Ayn Rand character, and not one of the good ones either.</strong>
Which one? I'm not familiar with Ayn Rand's writings.
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