--Deep stuff! - In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], 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.
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