{"id":12651,"date":"2010-07-11T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12651"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:17:40","slug":"a-guest-post-from-jim-klein-owing-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12651\/a-guest-post-from-jim-klein-owing-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"A guest post from Jim Klein: “Owing on earth.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Jim Klein has been hanging out with us here at BloodhoundBlog for the past few months, gently tossing rhetorical hand-grenades into our discussions where he thinks they might do the most good. I met Jim fifteen years ago on Usenet, and we’ve been philosophical allies ever since. I love having him around here, because I trust him to tell me when he thinks I’m wrong.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working to flesh out SplendorQuest.com<\/a> so that I might, sometime soon, move our more-ornately philosophical discussions there. Jim will be writing with me there, and possibly some other folks, as we go forward. My own plan is to use SplendorQuest to document everything I know about philosophy. There is a lot that I do that is original in the world of discourse — Jim can tell you better than I can what qualifies as being original — and I want to make sure I document what I’ve done in a thoroughgoing way before I shuffle off this mortal coil.<\/p>\n

This post — our very first guest post — consists of Jim thanking me for challenging his preconceptions in an enduring way. At the time he’s taking about, I was beyond grateful that I could get anyone at all to listen to what I had to say, so my take is that the debt runs the other way. In any case, I am very proud to be able to show Jim off, both at BloodhoundBlog and at SplendorQuest.<\/p>\n

With that, I give you Jim Klein:<\/p>\n

[This was written for genuine Bloodhounds. Please check your chip!]<\/em><\/p>\n

I always start simple. Then I try to stay there. This post is no exception. I even cut it in half, to keep it as simple as possible. The main question I seek to answer here is, “What is owing?”<\/p>\n

You see, I owe Greg Swann. No, not for anything he sold me, nor because of anything he expects, let alone demands. He did do some software work back in the ’90s, but I paid for that. BTW his code is used to this day, making Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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