Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 10:59:07 09/08/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 13:01:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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. Well spoken. How many CCC member relish and smile when a certain programmer pops in for some "fraud" accusations against a certain professor? >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 "But Fernando, what's a 'classic'?" ;)
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