--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone repeatedly posts mistakes or lies, and their facts are > repeatedly challenged and corrected, readers will draw their own > conclusions about the persons veracity and reliability as a source. I > suggest that there is no need make explict claims about the posters > intentions or character. Such barbs and claims, not settling anything, > often nuke the good spirit of the list and discussions.
I think you're missing the point. The whole point of bringing the level of the conversation down to mere argumentation over words is TO bring the conversation down to the level where the arguers feel comfortable and "in their depth" again. A few days ago we were having a great discussion about fairly interesting Unity-based perceptions such as the role and nature of desire and expectation in enlightenment and whether or not it was a favor for those who have had enlight- enment experiences to tell the truth about "non-enlightenment" to those who still believe in it. Now the general level of discussion has degenerated to nitpicking about the meaning of words. Someone once made a perceptive comment that some Internet forums have a tendency to degenerate from exchanges about data to exchanges about metadata. One of the the things I do for fun when this happens and the metadata discussions hit the fan is try to pinpoint just *who* was feeling out of their depth and had to lower the general level of discussion to a more comfortable level for them. Sometimes it's an individual, sometimes an unspoken agreement by the whole group. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
