>Dan >I guess I'll go write a book. What's that line?
Just do it! Just paint some "swooshs" on your engineers boots and do it. ;-) Dave On 2/16/14 1:41 AM, "Dan Glover" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > Sadly, I agree. But it doesn't have to be that way, does it? I > remember having some fulfilling discussions here that were neither > rancorous or hateful. Posting articles about a girl and her thoughts > on her debate team seemed oddly out of place here. I don't know. Maybe > I'm getting crotchety in my old age. Still, that ain't quality in my > book. If that's all we got to talk about, then I don't see the sense > in it any longer. I guess I'll go write a book. > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:06 PM, David Thomas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2/15/14 7:57 PM, "Dan Glover" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Obviously, you fail to understand the difference between a debate and >>> a discussion. This list is called MOQ.DISCUSS for a reason. Debates >>> are destructive. One side seeks to demolish the other side. >>> Discussions are constructive. They encourage the expression of >>> opinion. A debate has nothing to do with "honost [sic] meaningful >>> communication." Only a discussion can accomplish that. It seems pretty >>> clear you didn't even bother reading the article. >> >> I think the word is "OBLIVIOUS," Dan. One would have to be oblivious to >> reality to suggest that what has, bye and large, been going on here (for at >> least the last year or more) as either discussion, or debate. A gangbang of >> polemic, verbal abuse, character assassin, and a cluster-fuck of fuzzy >> thinking, is more like it. >> >> Blind faith in "The Book(s)" personified. >> >> Dave >> >> >> 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/md/archives.html > > 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/md/archives.html
