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Subject: Re: Intellectualism as a Pierpont tradition

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ted
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Date Posted: 19:58:42 09/03/04 Fri
In reply to: Jo Yaffe Kjosness 's message, "Intellectualism as a Pierpont tradition" on 03:01:24 09/03/04 Fri

>Reading some of these recent posts have me wondering
>if I have confabulated my memories of Pierpont as
>being a largely intellectual place. Yes, we did a lot
>of mind expansion and sexual experimentalism (or at
>least, I did), but there was a concentration of brain
>cells which also allowed for serious discussion of the
>phenomenology of the times.
>
>Help me out, guys, am I misremembering my youth? Say
>it ain't so!! Are u saying sewer tunneling, caveing and campus climbing/exploration are not intellectual endeavors? Did u participate in any of the same? If not , I fear your education was incomplete. It might have been engaging (fun?) for u to drop a hit and sit around pondering the universe under your fingernail, but for me the heightened senses experienced with comrads during these expeditions was not only enjoyable but memorable. Does the credo respect diversity ring a bell? Intellect is where u find it and it may be in a sewer.
>
>J

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Re: Intellectualism as a Pierpont tradition Jo Yaffe Kjosness 23:31:15 09/04/04 Sat

Re: Intellectualism as a Pierpont tradition -- ted, 00:24:51 09/08/04 Wed

Re: Intellectualism as a Pierpont tradition Susan Shirley Chandel Pierpont 3rd floor sunset 73-75 01:19:39 01/06/09 Tue