Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:49:02 03/30/99
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On March 30, 1999 at 19:38:38, Terry Presgrove wrote: >On March 30, 1999 at 18:58:08, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >> >>On March 30, 1999 at 18:21:11, Hristo wrote: >> >>>It is sad to see one of our friends and many innocent people involved in a >>>situation like the one developing before our eyes in Kosovo !!! While there is >>>much to be said about this I would like to restrain myself(for the moment) from >>>doing so. I lived in Bulgaria for over 21 years and the problems of this >>>region(the Balkans) are not new nor obscure to me! People there live in a much >>>more "difficult" circumstances then the American and West Europen contries. It >>>is so striking to me to see that in our small comunity, which is bound by "love" >>>and pation for chess, we can not seem to be able to find peace! There is so much >>>righteousness, so much hate, and so much personal attacks and abuse. Why do we >>>go at each others throat so easily, even here, where our lives are not >>>threatened? Do we understand each other? Do we understand our selfs? All our >>>problems, within this group, originate or are related to chess. We always have >>>issues ... incredibly "important" issues. "cheating", "honesty" ... How do our >>>problems relate and compare to Dgeordges problems?! They don't!!! WE DO NOT HAVE >>>PROBLEMS! NONE! We have invented incredibly sophisticated rhetoric to create >>>those pseudo-problems to make us feel important! I hope we are smarter than >>>that. I hope we learn(the damn programs have a learn feature, why don't we)! We >>>can stop the nonsense in our small chess comunity. >>> >>>Hristo >> >> >>Yes it is terrible the thing that is happening over their. But we can only send >>our hopes and prayers our to him and the people over there. >> >>But we must go on. And that is why we need to post these things like cheating >>and honesty. We cannot stop and all get caught up in the terrible things that >>happen in this world. >> >>As with whoever you support over their, they are trying to right the wrongs. As >>is what we do when we talk about cheating and other things. > > I think you missed his point ......in the scheme of things what we here on CCC >consider critical / important /significant are when compared to life and death >issues not very significant at all. Having spent a year of my life in Vietnam I >can relate to the horrors of the terrible tragedy that Mr. Hristo speaks.....we >sometimes get so wrapped up in our own little world that we forget the really >important issues that are before us. It seems that some here on CCC are >constantly waiting for someone to say anything just a little out of line so they >can attack them. Much of which is over quite trivial matters indeed. This >is merely a poor attempt at saying bravo to Mr. Hristo's post. >TP I totally agree with his comments. I think the way I wrote things came across wrong, I will not bother to explain it cause it will most likely still be taken wrong. Better to end it now :-)
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