those people know nothing of my teachings. how they ever got their degree in communications is beyond me.

if thier is one form of communication where a person can achieve a discarnate state it is with written words on a paper. nor would i assume simutunaity is synonymous with discarnation.

take the bin laden tapes for example. they were released to the public simutaneously. if the transcripts of his words were sent to everyone in the united states, do you think the public would cognitively process his message in a more "intimate and all-encompassing" manner. yes. the act of reading something better allows people to lose themself in the message.

i'm not sure what bob and scott are talking about exactly, but I usually associate people who quote McLuhan as part of the pseudo-intellectual seventies yuppies.