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Subject: Re: Censoring, paranoia and "sippenhaft"

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:15:45 12/08/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 11:19:48, Harry Field wrote:

>On December 08, 2000 at 11:01:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 2000 at 05:35:12, Harry Field wrote:
>>
>>>On December 08, 2000 at 04:50:41, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 07, 2000 at 15:18:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>I know..  we have experienced a "paradigm shift".  It was originally simply
>>>>>"drive into the fog".  Now it is "first make a lot of fog, then drive into it."
>>>>>
>>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>:-)))) in other forum (computer-schach and spiele forum) people
>>>>get censored and deleted not because they insult or
>>>>be impolite, but because their names come close to my name :-))))
>>>>
>>>>Torsten Schoop e.g. or
>>>>Thomas Lagershausen.
>>>>
>>>>they have in common that Torsten = Thorsten and Czub sounds like Schoop.
>>>>with Thomas Lagershausen its more funny, he only has 3 letters in common:
>>>>THO !!
>>>>thats enough for bertil eklund and other who behave paranoic to call him
>>>>whatever and offend this poor guy.
>>>>
>>>>i think the next step is to put anybody in prison who has glasses,
>>>>because i wear glasses too :-))
>>>>
>>>>Brave new world !
>>>
>>>Funny!
>>>
>>>All bulletin boards tend to take taken over by cliques, where the individuals
>>>post a lot and tend to agree with each other, often by being 'opposed' to
>>>another clique or person(s). When the same individuals have censorship power
>>>they use it. Their ability to remove criticism strengthens their world view for
>>>themselves, and, since all world views are subject to internal contradictions,
>>>they effectively mask these contradictions, developing a
>>>One-Flew-Over-The-Cuckoos-Nest lobotomised view of the world, in which they
>>>carry out real stupidities in the name of their rationalised reasonableness.
>>>Hence the deletion of "THO" posts!!!
>>>
>>>Take it as a compliment when you can get a clique to be that stupid!
>>
>>If you spent 1/2 the time working on your program compared to the time you
>>spend stirring things up here, it would be a dangerous program...
>
>Your references to "chaos", "stirring things up", imply to me that you are
>frightened of words and frightened of change. Since my language is non-abusive,
>contains no rude words, and generally makes sense, I can only further assume
>that you don't like accurate criticism. They are only words, you know.
>
>Would acquiring a sense of proportion he helpful to you?


First, I'm not "frightened" by any of the above. try:

:%s/frightened/annoyed/g

and that is closer, although I am not even annoyed by change.  CCC is doing
fine.  r.g.c.c does fine at times, goes to hell in a handbasket at times.
_still does_.




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