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Subject: The Other face of the coin

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 10:01:35 09/08/04


After reading one or two long threads here about CCC-CTF relations, but
specially looking at the posts by people that does not like CTF, I suddenly
realized how truth is that old Bible afirmation about a guy seeing a little bit
of wood in the eye of the other guy but not looking... you know what.
What I suddenly realized -or remembered- is the fact that CCC has been LOT more
guilty of nasty wars than anything you can find in CTF.
Why I say this?
I say this because in my judgement it is much more harsh and insulting to keep a
war about the personal features of the other guy, as it has happened here in
broadsides between chess programmers, than any argument between two persons
talking of third-party issues.
If I say "A" about Middle East crisis and the other guy say it is "B" and so I
have idiotic views, OK, it could even be truth. Nobody has the last word in
nothing.
BUT if I am -as I am in fact- a writer and the other guy say my writting sucks
and that my pen is shit and that my books are louzy, then there we have a direct
attack to me, to me personaluity in full.
And this is what has happened here many times.
So, which is eh sense of so much scandal?
Life is war said a greek philosopher, a pre-socratic one.
Conflict is he mother of everything.
A good fight is healthy
Why? Because you must endure after receivibng damage, because you must be
skilled and sharpen them all the time, because you must suffer and get harder,
becase you must gather strenght, because you can learn someting about yourself,
because you can see clearly your weak points, your dark sides, your stupid side.
Infine peace, on the contrary, unlimited politeness, political correctness and
all that stinks to simple fear. It is death.
Re-read your clasics, boys.
Fernando



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