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Subject: Re: A New CCC Poll Question At Last!!!

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 08:13:19 09/08/00

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On September 08, 2000 at 10:43:16, Peter Davison wrote:

>In a forum, ideas are what count. Ideas are tossed around. The unwritten rules
>are that an idea is not responsible for the people that believe in it, an idea
>is not owned, an idea does not connect to the ego of its originator, the
>mouthpiece for an idea doesn't feel personally bad if the idea is somehow
>disproven.

Should I assume from this that you're not in any way trying to enhance or
propagate your ego here? Sorry, I don't quite buy that. It seems as if you're
doing exactly what you're accusing everyone else of doing. To use your own
terms: You're playing zero-sum games with yourself. But everyone his or her own
pleasure.

>A club, on the other hand, is a place for relationships. Members enter clubs,
>make friends, find someone to send them emails, get less lonely, supposedly
>cooperate, although here the usual procedure is to provoke random personal
>zero-sum games as you yourself have shown recently with Villegas and Silver,
>presumably through boredom?

I haven't initiated any zero-sum games with anyone, whatever the definition of
zero-sum games might be. Besides, everything starts with oneself. What have you
done in the spirit of coorperation? Nothing as far as I can tell. We have a
saying in Denmark:

Don't throw stones if you live in a glasshouse (loosely translated).

>So long.

Bye.

Mogens



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