Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Aug 18, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I've gone from disappointed in this discussion to disgusted -- so much
so that I'm bordering on willingness to do what I've done about five
times in my decade-plus history online: Employ a filter. (That
averages, FTR, to about one person every two years added to my "do not
bother to read at all" list.)
This from a person who feels the right to kill anyone who expresses
what he
considers homophobic statements? From a person who brags about his
empathy
:-)
Whatever. You're obviously the undisputed master of retaining
information (with much distortion) about others that you can use any
time to make yourself look good. And it's abundantly clear that you're
incapable of letting the past rest in the past, that you have no ability
to simply, as Bush has it, "move on".
For someone with a rich background in the hard sciences, this apparent
streak of illogic is pretty disappointing.
He's basing his opinions of people on his *entire* history with them.
He's had a much longer history with Zimmy than with you. And I'm not
sure he's trying to make himself look good so much as to try to point
out something in his history *with you* that affects his judgement of
you as much as his many years of history with Zimmy affects his
judgement of Zimmy.
(BTW, when the heck did I start referring to Bob Z. as "Zimmy" rather
than "Bob"? And why? I guess the "why" is the more nagging question to
me than the "when".)
BTW, Bob Z. can't spell or type very well, but he is incredibly
intelligent in a number of areas that haven't come up on-list lately.
I'm sorry that this was the first topic that really stirred him up since
you became really active; I think your perception of him has been
unfairly distorted as a result of *that*.
(And Dan, feel free to jump on anything I said regarding your statements
and the motivation behind them if I'm wrong. And in regards to another
related post, I always preferred "correct as usual, King Friday" to
"correct as always." :) Because I can be wrong, and I know it. UNLIKE
a certain puppet I could name....)
Julia
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