--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Johnny, I suspect from your comments that at times your reading or > > understanding of some posts is weak or superficial And you react > > strongly to your weak understanding, not the post itself -- as written. > > > > ----------------- > ----------------- > > What more can I say, > I rest my case, and my weak understanding. > > JohnY
Perhaps you have difficulty distinguishing between a critique of an idea and a personal attack. Some feel so attached and in ownership of their thoughts and ideas, that a criticism of the latter is equivalent to a personal attack. Having mixed that up, often their response, is not on the ideas being discussed, but to attack the poster. Again, one is seen to be the same as the other: ideas and the thinker. Nothing could be further from the truth in my book. The quality of thoughts, I suggest, follows a normal distribution (aka bell curve). A few brilliant ideas, a few imbecillic ones, and a lot somewhere in between. Just because one has an imbecillic thought does not make the person an imbecile. Same with having a "genius thought". If we don't catch our own imbecillic thoughts, feedback from others on the quality of the idea is helpful. On the other hand, sometimes, some ideas expressed are so weak and baseless that its hard not to laugh out loud and rib the poster directly a bit. That is often not a personal attack, but an attempt to get the poster to "wake-up' to what they have posted, re-examine it,and hopefully laugh at it too. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
