Author: Steve Blatchford
Date: 08:15:45 09/24/98
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On September 24, 1998 at 10:59:00, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On September 24, 1998 at 05:10:47, Steve Blatchford wrote: > >>On September 24, 1998 at 02:03:52, Danniel Corbit wrote: >> >>>I love Thorsten Czub. I love his tournaments and his remarks. I did not read >>>the posts that led to his expulsion. I only read titles that interest me. I do >>>not know what he said, but I apologize in his behalf for myself. As an >>>alternative, can someone be given a read only account? That seems a good idea. >>>That way, threads could be carried on in r.g.c.c. in a meaningful way. >>> >>>I appeal to the offended parties to offer forgiveness. >>> >>>At any rate, I would like to see his posts here again. >> >>Do you really want Thorsten, as a person ? Are you speaking with humanity? Is >>yours a principled position? >> >>Or do you just want the Court Jester / Village Idiot / Fool figure to keep you >>amused? >> >> > >Steve: >Your description of Thorsten is not very pleasant. I do not see how much better >is with respect to the qualification of "stupid" Thorsten did against a guy >here. TC is much more than a jester. He can be sometimes and that is not bad. I am sincerely sorry. This was not the intention of the expression at all. I was trying to say that "some persons *treat* Thorsten (and others) as sources of amusement". In the sense of his providing interesting while controversial threads tinged with emotionalism. In the sense of these threads becoming little battles for the amusement of onlookers. In the sense that the onlookers enjoy the drama, but profess to be above or disdain the content. Thus they attack Thorsten while he is here, but miss him when he is gone. The whole being an exposure of the internal contradiction. Between how to have both fun and meaning whilst under potential or actual censorship. Does the post make more sense to you now ? Steve It >is my experience, and I hope it is not your case, that people that blame other >people for being ocasionally jester has a awful confusion between intelligence >and seriousness. IMHO, the contrary tend to be truth. >Please, don not take this as a new war. It is just that I think you has been too >harsh with a guy that, besides, cannont answer. >Fernando > > >Is it now that you've lost all your fun? Sacked all the minstrels and fools? >> >>Minstrels tend not to return to villages that throw them out. Nor to villages >>that muzzle them on entry. They went back to those that valued them, laughed, >>gave them wine and bread. >> >>Steve >> >>> >>>Just a single person's opinion. >>> >>>I don't know what he said, but he has always been a gentleman to me via NG posts >>>& private correspondence. >>> >>>OTOH, I will abide by the decisions of the moderators and I am not complaining. >>>I would understand even if I had been given a yellow card for some of my posts.
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