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Electra
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Date Joined Feb 2002
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| Posted 5/15/2002 3:51 PM (GMT -6) |   | Where’s a white rabbit when you need one!
I started a thread on this topic a while back, but I’ve lost track of it. Anyway, I’m going to make this very short and highly oversimplified because if I don’t finish this paper I’m supposed to be writing, I will flunk my ethics class, and flunking out of ethics really doesn’t reflect well on a person. 
Anyway, I’ve been practicing my hermeneutics of suspicion, and I think I’ve got the hang of it. But it gets really old after a while. Nothing gives me greater joy than surplus of meaning—if I were more clever I think I would come up with an argument for the existence of God based on the surplus of meaning—but I think hermeneutical suspicion spoils it. There is no innocent text, and given the gaps and slippages and surpluses that make it all so interesting, if you approach a text suspiciously, your suspicions are likely to be confirmed. But if my last sentence is true, then it is true for any hermeneutic, whether it is suspicious, appreciative, naïve, or whatever. Someone please attack my premise, because I can’t make sense out of this. I’m going to read Alice in Wonderland when I’m done with this paper because I think the answer might be in there.
Electra
p.s. I will pay you $100 if you write my ethics paper for me. 
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He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?”
I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”
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