Author: Zheng Zhixian
Date: 18:36:45 01/04/06
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As a rule i never answer to you Rolf in CTF even when you respond to me, mostly because I have no idea what you are saying usually, and partly because I suspect it's usually a waste of time anyway. But since your question is clear this time I shall answer. A literal and easy answer, would be, CC could be your livelihood if you one of the professionals or a supporting team. But of course that only works for a small group of people and lacks generality. The more correct answer is that just because a certain person decides that he is willing to put only certain level of importance or passion on a given activity denoted by what he calls 'hobby', anyone else who puts in more passion into it while in theory still denoted by the word 'hobby' (though i could call it a 'passion') , is more serious and/or sees it as of higher importance than what FV thinks it deserves, automatically means he is wrong, or asburd, or fails to detect humor/irony. Or worse isn't one of your alpha males :) What is perceived as trival to one, critically depends on what level of importance one wants to put in it, to define by fiat that there is only one correct level, beyond which further seriousness leads to unintended humor is clearly undefensible. Of course, while defending this relativist view, I'm not saying that there isn't a certain absolute level where most reasonable persons wouldnt hesistate to say arbsurdity results, but rather this indidivual i'm commenting on, has more often then not used only his solely personal and contingency judgement of what is important as a scale to heap ridicule on others. And of course, in the rare occasion when someone disagrees with his judgement and dares to deletes his posts, he gets angry, but as usual he claims that it was a joke.A typical reaction i predicted a while ago. In short, anything that other people find significant or interesting that he does not, he dismisses, as trival and worse yet ridcules them. And this of course is a pattern of behavior that he exhibits for as long as I have being on CCC.His semi celebrity status and his grand old man image (he is friends with the owner of this forum as he boasts - all joking of course..) allows him i suspect to do so, where lesser memebers would have being thrown out on lesser charges. It's all part of the pattern in which he assumes a role of grand old man, and lecturer to everyone grand and sundry giving little bits of 'wisdom' , which if rejected leaves him in a rage. He tells us in the stem of this thread, what a great person the "wisdom and grace" (wow!) of Steve and what is important according to him is " movies, literature, Anatole, France, soccer, painting, music, jazz, etc." and the oh so important advice that humor and only humor alone can save our souls. lol. :P I hope he's not being serious if he is, I can't help but think he is setting himself up to be mocked, with all this earnst seriousness. Or perhas as he says, he is merely in the position of a fool in the "Peter Seller movie giving political absurd advices"
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