--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > Right now it is probably because it is "the holidays." This year > it may well be a very boring time of the year because people are > finding they don't have any money to spend for it. I think that > is making people uptight and hence you'll see more arguing going > on.
I think you're right about this. I just sometimes wish that the people acting out their frustrations via argumentation would do something more productive with it, like learn and practice the most effective method of meditation on the planet or something. :-) > Most of the other groups I'm on are topic centric and if there > is any arguing it is over that topic. And that can go on all > the time. Then there are the political forums I'm on where the > idea IS to argue. Tell me about it. On another forum I finally had to block posts coming from a friend of mine from Santa Fe. He's a gun nut and a rabid Libertarian, and he seemingly can't get through a single day without firing off 5 to 10 polemics about something. And he does it in such a way that he always invites arguments, and gets them. I finally figured out that his threads constituted half the messages I saw, and that I was never interested in any of the things being argued about. Hide him and his threads, and it's a whole new forum, one that I actually enjoy again. I guess one could make a case for arguing being a form of entertainment. If the one making this case doesn't have a life, that is. :-)
