Harry, Did you ever define desire?
How about the other nouns in your Assumptions? Ray How about effort and ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: RANT & Three basic realms > At 01:59 AM 3/23/2002 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote: > > > >Down the digital hall and around the corner in Usenet newsgroups, Harry's > >self-confessed bear-baiting is called "trolling". With a rather less > >refined standard of discourse than that which we try to maintain on > >FutureWork, Usenet trolls are sometimes successful in their efforts to > >provoke pointless controversy and richly scatological flamage or, > >alternatively, are simply "plonked" -- filtered out by individual readers' > >software -- or are greeted with "The Sign". > > Hope you enjoy your news groups. I never discuss on them. > > I did indeed point out that I capitalized "Assumptions" just to trail my > coat before our friends. Yet the capital is quite valid as I tried to get > over (with humor) what I thought were important and useful advances in the > understanding of human beings. > > I don't know whether you know what ad hominem is. Webster says it's: > "Attacking the character or motives, etc. of an opponent rather than > debating the issue on logical grounds." > > You did well with nails. Perhaps you had better stick to them. > > Harry > > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > > >
