Author: Hristo
Date: 10:16:37 01/04/06
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On January 03, 2006 at 21:55:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >There are two kinds of humor. Dear Fernando, there are three types of humor; one that is funny and what that isn't. I would have believed your position, the one you describe here [below], if you had approached the situation from its humorous side and not from the "let me, the Fernando, tell you the truth about life ... little children". But you didn't, you feel compelled to educate, all of us, on what is right and what is wrong. So what if someone got a few posts deleted? Isn't that person supposed to look at it all through the lenses of laughter and humor, rather than from the dark glasses of "ohh, my dear, I have been repressed."? I find your post most confusing, in the sense that Blincoe will be back once he figures out that he is liked and that perhaps he is overreacting to the "overreaction" of the mods. Trying to lick each others "wounds", like you are doing, in public while advising others to be more accepting of the humor in life, is unnecessary. Why don't you use you excellent sense of humor to lift up the spirits? [rather than condemning everybody] Besides, I think that the mods are doing their best to keep this place manageable and on topic and given the archaic structure of the forum they have very little options of how to do this. >One is aimed to get some fun, a smile, to lighten the weight of life. It is >purposely made for enhancing and curing our heart with that splendid show of >spirit that is humor in itself. It could be good or it could fail, but its >intention is always positive. That intention, solely, qualify humor as something >good. The "Good, the bad and the ugly", eh? Tell us, Fernando, what is good in life?! :-) Should we accept and live with all of the things that are done with good intentions? Fernando, I like you, but your post is a bit over-the-top and isn't delivering the cure, the humor of this entire situation, IMHO. Regards, Hristo >Then we have unintended humor, the kind of humor the author creates >unsconsciously trying to be serious about a matter so unimportant that his very >seriousness make the reader or listener to laugh. You laugh of it and howewer is >a sad thing to see. You laugh but lateryou meditate in the deep imbecility of >human nature. >We have lots of this last kind here in CCC. >When you see so long threads about things like ... or like ...., followed with >such intensity, even fury, with egoes engaged to the full, with arguments coming >and going as if was being discussed the universal peace, then you laugh in this >last manner. What else? Nevertheless, nobody delete these pieces of metaphysics >off topic, childish materiel, sad material made of sound and nothingness. Nobody >complains that somebody is going berzek with a triffle. Nobody seems to see the >esential absurdity of such endeavour. Nobody laugh. The thread is followed suite >with passion. Preposterous seriousness prevails. Heated arguments comes. Insults >are said. Flame wars begins. >Do not get me wrong. I like to see and read about this stuff. That's the reason >I am here since pleistocene. But I never forget what position this issue have in >my overall list of things to care. I never forget this is, exception made for >some dedicated human units, a hobby. HOBBY. Do you remember the meaning of the >word? An amateur passtime. Something to get fun and sometimes perhaps an >entertainning instruction. And specially a pretext to meet simpathetic people. >Like going to the movies. Like playing chess... >So humor is or should be on topic all the time. Humor is on topic in everything. >Humor is present specially in the mind of the best. The greatest intellect I >have ever met was a teacher in La Sorbonne, France. He never believed that to be >interested in the old Fermat problem was equal to be dead serious. He loved his >profession, but he loved more to put it in proportion to life. >I drunk with him several times and we talked of movies, literature, Anatole >France, soccer, painting, music, jazz, etc. >He was a man of many jokes and smiles. And he was extremely smart. Smart as my >friend Blincoe is, a very succesful professional in a very complicated >profession, but nevertheless now virtually booted because of his thread with me. >There are some very respected guys here that can insult, deride and kick in the >ass to anyone every other day and yet they are respected, adored and NEVER oh my >God deleted, no matter what. >There are others that in the judgement of an shrink are real sychotics and there >they are, spreading his illness and taken seriously into account as that >personage of the Peter Seller movie giving political absurd advices from his >garden. >So we probably will have not anymore -or lot less- the wisdom and grace of >Blincoe about chess computers and else. You can be happy. You got it. You can >now say this a storm in a spoon. Of course. >After so many lessons I have got along a life you will pardon me if I express >openly that in my personal scale to measure human intelligence, Certainly I do >not put, as a prime measure, the famous IQ, but common sense, which first >feature is to know how to put things is an adequate, reasonable perspective of >life as that teacher did all the time and my friend Blincoe does also. >There are many high IQ people here. So it is said. I suppose I must believe >them. But I am afraid that the attitude that compels some people to ask for >deletions, erasing, bannings etc anytime someone as Blincoe appears -or >Wittintong or Steen or many others- is, frankly speaking, a show of low, mean >intellect, of narrowness, of shallownes under the mask of deep thought. >Let me quote someone that sent me a private email: >"CCC is really becoming a place for Programming freaks and Mr.....type of Idiot >Savants as others are simply unwelcome or looked down upon...." >Nevertheless I will stay here, even if just to bother some assholes. >fernando
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