Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:47:46 01/06/06
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Interesting, Sune. According to your implicit reasonning to make jokes is to be neccesarily "a joker" and to be a joker is not to be serious. So to be serious is not to be a joker. To be taken seriously -we will see what that means- you must NOT be a joker or make too many jokes. I have always wondered about the many nuances of the "serious" thing meaning. What people means by seriousness. First of all, of course, lack of smiles and laughs about something. But as much to smile or laugh of something is always asociated with seeing that thing in what it has of preposterous, absurd or painfully relative and tiny in a more general context, then to be serious means to take at his face value what is standing before you in all his pomp and circunstances. For that very reason I tend to consider with some suspictions the so called "serious" people, those that tend to be serious. Those that always take seriously what they have in front of them. Not always, but often, they are narrow minded people, ignorant people, dumb people. By example, there are people here that take very seriously this computer chess thing. That's the reason they get bothered if some guy prefer for a moment to make a thread of jokes and banter. They are not compelled to read nothing of it, but anyway they feel that lack of seriousness as a threath to his serious approach to the matter. They are not happy with just read and post about this; they want also to do that "seriously" in a atmosphere of seriousness. But, forgive me, to be serious about a game -exception made if you earn a life from it- is frankly not to understand the nature of games. Games are for fun, so lack of "seriousness" around them fits very well with them, including chess computers. Second, to be serious I sincerely believe that the serious attitude should be kept for serious issues. So It is not serious to be serious with computer chess, because it is not the great, serious thing. It does not fit. So, if someone does not take me or SB -or any other guy that like to makes jokes- "seriously" because we do that in the context of so much "serious" an issue as this supposedly is, I do exactly the same and I do not take them seriously. There is a difference, though: My lack of seriousness could perhaps produce a smile here and here; HIS lack of seriousnes is mortally sad, deadly, ask for moderations, for deletions, produce conflict, expel people, barren the place, is ungracious and finally silly. My best non serious regards Fernando
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