--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Take a DEEEEP breath, Barry, and relax. Then try > > to reread what I wrote *calmly*. If you see a > > problem with my paraphrase of what you wrote that > > I quoted, explain what I got wrong. That you're > > "fascinated by the phenomenon" and find it a > > "constant source of amusement" is entirely > > irrelevant. > > No, that's the only thing that *is* relevant. That's > all I had to say on the phenomenon.
But that's irrelevant to the point I was making. I didn't suggest you were saying anything more than what you said. > You were trying to negatively "paraphrase" what I said > to make it sound like something else No, I was pointing out that what you said led to an infinite regress (as I've already explained). and suck me into > some long-winded "defense" of something I neither said > nor intended. No defense required, nor even possible. Just acknowledge that what you wrote involved an infinite regress, and chuckle at that fact. (You do know what an infinite regress is, don't you? If not, I'll be happy to try to explain it to you.) > And the funny thing is that I think most > people here know why. Barry the Mind Reader... Actually, most people here aren't even reading this. What you appear to be reading is your own mind. What you are pissed off about is > that Tom and I were having a fun conversation, based > on a thread that I started. Remember what I said earlier about how you should make a major effort to live in reality rather than in your fantasies? And, for that matter, consider what you yourself have been saying about projection. In this case, it's you who is pissed off, not me. > Since you are *unable* to come up with any ideas your- > self that lead to interesting conversations, you try > your best to derail those conversations when one of > the people you dislike starts them. I'm sorry you feel that the conversations generated by my ideas aren't interesting, but that may say more about you than it does about me. I'm also sorry you feel my comments here derailed your conversation with Tom; I don't see why you shouldn't be able to continue it for as long as you like. > Shit in the punchbowl all you'd like, Judy. Since it's > become apparent that the only thing you *can* contribute > to such conversation is turds, we'll just swim around > them. :-) Turds before swine, perhaps.
