> [Platt] > Team captains? Oracles? Divine commands? Dreck? You do use colorful > language at times. > > [Krimel] > Much as we differ about nearly everything else I think we share a common > love for the written word.
[Platt} Yes, indeed. [Krimel] > Early on I was taught to be a disciple of Strunk > and White. I hated them. They imposed rules on prose. I found it outrageous. > Their injunction to "Use fewer words" was painful to learn, difficult to > follow but generally good advice. One way to reduce your word count is to > select words that convey precise connotation. I don't always succeed but I > always try. [Platt] Right on. My advice to all writers: Tell me quick and tell me true, otherwise to hell with you. > [Platt] > I think he's got it right -- as the history of the 20th century fairly well > illustrates. > > [Krimel] > I do not think you can judge ideals in this way. All sorts of factors > influence the outcomes of history. The ideals may or may not play a deciding > role in the ways we might think they do. After all it took nearly 200 years > after we started this country with the phrase "all men are created equal..." > to grant equality to all men and even longer to grant it to women. > > We are still coming to terms with the meaning of our ideals in the west. I > am pretty sure this is what scares Strauss and the Arabs. [Platt] To attain ideals you have to state what they are and from whence they come. The Founding Fathers accomplished both. So did Marx. The results were quite different. > [Platt] > I have no doubt you express the underlying wish of the left, along with a > willingness to give evolution a push. > > [Krimel] > See I would say the left is not trying to give evolution a push rather it is > trying to give it a chance. > > [Krimel] > > Gotta go now I hear the daily Jesus Pool Party starting up near by... > > [Platt] > Intolerance is a sin among politically correct leftists, unless the subject > is Christians. > > [Krimel] > I will take this in the spirit it is offered but in fairness very few here > have raised the issue of Christian and Jewish faith more often or in a more > positive light than I have. I think it is a topic that scares many here. And > I have been equally politically incorrect in criticizing the fuzzy headed > naval gazers in our midst who generally get a pass for sounding profound. [Platt] Point taken. You appear to accept the tenets of Christianity as your moral compass, although I'm not exactly sure why other than it's a Western tradition -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
