--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: <snip> > > > > This is one of my all-time favorite jokes. One person asks > > > > the other: "What do you think is worse in our society today, > > > > the general level of ignorance, or rather the pervading > > > > disinterest." > > > > The other person answers: "I don't know, and I don't care." > > > > > > Ah, "ignorance." > > > > > > As opposed to...uh...what? "Knowledge?" > > > > Barry, could it be that you are just a bit over-interpreting? > > This is just a joke, its not invented by me, I am just retelling, > > translating from memory from German. Thats the problem I have > > currently with you: I am just saying something quite innocently, > > and all the red lights go on ... Its a joke! Can't you laugh? > > Didn't you say you prefer masters with a sense of humor? You > > are so much projecting at this point, that I find you useful > > exchange virtually impossible at the moment. > > Um...Michael...did you miss that my reply *was* > a joke?
Actually, it wasn't a joke. Barry's response *contained* what he thinks of as a joke (the bit about Buddha playing volleyball), but what came before and after that part wasn't a joke, it was a putdown of those who value knowledge over ignorance, as well as a putdown of value judgments themselves. <snip> > I was just having fun riffing on your joke. Actually, Barry ignored Michael's joke and proceeded to deliver one of his many lectures promoting his own value judgments. <snip> > After riffing on the joke, as I am wont to do, Actually, both before *and* after "riffing" on the joke. > I just rapped a bit about the magic of still > being able to say "I don't know." It seems to > me that you may have heard something in that > rap...again...that wasn't there -- a criticism > of you. Actually, it was a criticism of valuing knowledge over ignorance, a follow-up to Barry's criticism of Michael in an earlier post for purportedly not valuing "I don't know": "Again, I think we're back to the issue of you not valuing 'I don't know' and both Curtis and I valuing it a lot. We find some of our inspiration *in* not knowing. You seem to be more inspired by the belief that you *do* know certain things." Michael correctly associated Barry's current post with his earlier one and is quite right to point out that Barry is projecting his own issues onto Michael.
