".please let Skip know how you feel about his post below. It isn't fair to ask me not to do it, but say nothing to Skip and let me take it on the chin like this when he does it. .so I don't have to get into it with him.. 'You are not merely a silly ass but a very strange bird.'"
The problem with Tommy, he has a love affair with words; for him the word is the thing, it is evidence, it is fact and with this belief he can rest peacefully. I too love words; for me they're tools with which we attempt to communicate, argue, express emotion and share information, but they are not fact or evidence and are easily manipulated to trick, lie and deceive. Words are no more than bits and pieces of language and language is where the real action lies. I suspect Tommy believes words to have literal and factual meaning and for this reason believes the word to be the measure of the man. I believe words to have temporal meaning at best, to be and have temporary and transitory significance and to represent only part of what we mean; I think actions speak louder than words. I play with words; ideas and meaning primarily because I can and secondarily because many people manage to get so exercised over their use and abuse. Language is loaded with mystery and magic for those of us that take or use it literally; but language is only partially literal, is a tool set constantly adapting and changing according to its usage and societal pressure. Skip Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://JerseyShoreRocks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: The Look of Things -- a very strange bird > Dear everyone: If you don't want people getting nasty in these > posts, then please let Skip know how you feel about his post below. > It isn't fair to ask me not to do it, but say nothing to Skip and > let me take it on the chin like this when he does it. Please let > him know how you feel about such personal attacks so I don't have to > get into it with him, and you won't have to have your board > cluttered by it. > > Thanks. > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> "Those "green spaces" between the pavillions ought to have more >> pavillions built on them." >> >> You really don't like Asbury do you Tommy? You don't like historic >> buildings, you don't like a view of the ocean and you don't like >> residents of the city getting fair compensation for the sale of > their >> assets. >> >> You are not merely a silly ass but a very strange bird. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
