Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 09:32:49 09/08/00
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On September 08, 2000 at 11:53:43, Peter Davison wrote: >Looks like the point is proven. The quoted chuck is an idea/opinion without any >personal content or attachment. Where in the quoted chunk is there any "me" >contained? Isn't the quoted chunk just about the concept of an 'idea' being >independent of its creator or propagator? There doesn't have to be a "me" included. You relate values that you don't follow yourself. Very simple indeed. >Although, if I wished to analyse your text, I think I might try temporarily >leaving out the "zero-sum" expression from "You're playing zero-sum games with >yourself", and what would I end up with? An insult? A not-so-subtle attempt to >wind up the personal angle? > >Surely not. No, just stating fact. Having principles is good, following them even better. >Ah. We're back to "me" again. Always the same thing. Sorry that I find it so >boring. I like ideas. But this place inextricably links them to persons. Then >argues about the persons. > >My guess is that you have absolutely no idea of what I might or might not have >done, cooperation-wise or not. How could you? Did we meet? Have we talked? Or do >you just go by the cardboard cutouts you are restricted to 'seeing' by Internet, >or hearing gossip about? Just reading the things you write here is more than sufficient. Stating ideas that you don't comprehend yourself barely constitutes an intellectual process. You're nothing more than a zero-sum game starter yourself as far as I can tell. >Personal: You threw a stone at Fernando Villegas. It was a gratuitous stone. I >mocked the process. You backed down. Didn't that fix a little fight that was >about to start in the greehouse? Big deal, but the other way round to what you >suggest above. LOL, sorry to burst your bubble, but you had nothing to do with any of my actions. An inquiry on my behalf, a polite answer and my acknowledgement. That was the content of "the little fight". >We're done by now, surely. >Can I go? Please do, unless your zero-sum quota hasn't been used up as yet. Mogens.
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