>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
>> 
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