Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 27/12/2016 01:02, lee wrote: >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 26/12/2016 21:42, lee wrote: >>>> Well, I guess you haven't realised yet that reality doesn't exist. >>>> Bubbles are a self-imposed limit for those who believe in reality. >>>> You probably hit that wall and now try hard to remain confined. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, this won't make sense to you until you come to realise. >>> >>> >>> I *strongly* recommend you cease insulting people's intelligence on this >>> list. >> >> It was not my intention to do that, and if I did, I apologize. >> >> Different people realise different things. There are many things I will >> never realise and others I have. There are things I won't understand >> before I have realised what is necessary to realise to understand them. >> Finding that someone won't understand something before they have >> realised something doesn't insult anyones intelligence. > > > OK. > > I think you need to step back a little and apply the above to this > situation. By that I mean how you are interacting with others, not the > various questions about systemd, how many NICs a board has in general > and so on. > > The results you are getting are far from optimum - you may eventually > get an answer that satisfies you but in general it is involving long > winding threads that frustrate others. > > So I suggest you apply reason and investigation to determine why that > might be so. > > One highly workable method is when you find yourself taking a contrary > position and about to explain why you think what you think, then reverse > it. Instead, state that you disagree, that you think something else and > invite the other to explain why they are saying what they are saying. > This method has high success in revealing to you what it is you have to > realise first, as you mention above) > > >> >> >>> This list (gentoo-user) contains the brightest minds, widest range of >>> experience (both CS-related and just generally in life), most articulate >>> and surprisingly, most tolerant, bunch of people I have ever come across >>> online; and I've been here for 10 years and doing online for 20+ years >>> and the above is not meant idly. >>> >>> I can't watch you type and I can't get in your headspace but based just >>> on what I read from you, your communications say something that is >>> frankly, very insulting to those individuals. There is no need to >>> disparage someone else just because their frame of reference differs >>> from yours. >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> p.s. You have a very long way to go still before you begin to match >>> Dale's contributions here. >> >> So this is supposed to be a competition? > > No, it's about people and how people communicate concepts and ideas. > It's about how Dale is a long term contributor and people generally > think well of him and how statistically he is right more often than he > is wrong. He's worth paying attention to.
I see what you mean. Dale must be pretty annoyed by me. Sorry, Dale.
