Oh, THAT guy...I stopped reading HIS posts WEEKS ago! Can you say "BOYCOTT"? Did someone say he was a teacher? Clever. What better way to pass on the abuse and bitterness to the next generation? Reminds me of my "Holier Than Thou 101" professor, and his favorite "philosophical" tactic: to generate an endless barrage of pseudo-intellectual claptrap with which to bury any "adversary" (i.e., any MERE student with the audacity to hold an opinion). We soon learned to "give in" just to shut him up! With education like THAT, who needs lobotomies? Let me go on record right here and now: I discriminate against any and every POMPOUS WINDBAG regardless of race, color, creed, or sexual orientation. Once they learn (IF they learn) that childhood traumas and pent up agressions can only be healed from WITHIN, they no longer have any need to bellow their sour-grape derivatives at the innocent and/or defenseless, and I no longer have any cause to discriminate. On the other hand, I hear that poisonous snakes are often "milked" for their venom which is then used to produce "antivenin" to counteract the effects of the poison... No, I think we have enough, for now. If I refuse to read Hothead's posts, am I impinging upon his right to free speech? If so, I'm sure he won't mind if I come and put up a billboard in his front yard. Moq_discuss is NOT public property. According to the rules (which I just happen to have READ), the site owner or administrator has both the right and the responsibility to dump ANY persistently pernicious curmudgeon, especially one who has responded to requests and warnings with EXPLICIT DEFIANCE. If Holier likes, he can start his own discussion group, call it Sour-Grapes-R-Us, or Bellyache.com, and invite all comers who share his obsessive craving for mutual and/or unilateral abuse and contempt... Pirsig's "zuni brujo" (LILA) may have been regarded as eccentric by others in his community, but he was generally more popular than the priests because of what he was NOT: a SANCTIMONIOUS BLOWHARD. Then there's that bit about "karmic dumping"... Straun, Bah! Enough of your humbuggary! I'm really terribly sorry that the Blue Meanies put gunpowder in your Alpo when you were a pup--beleive me, I know how painful that can be--but the parents and/or primary caregivers who abused and/or neglected your developmental needs ARE NOT A PART OF THIS FORUM. Your comments are "reasonable" in much the same way that a randomly thrown fist in a dark crowded room is reasonable. Your attempts to paint Horse as some sort of oppressor are pathetically transparent. It's all I can do to stop myself from presenting your posts to my psychology class as examples of neurotically twisted rationalization. Horse was right: Nobody's buying it. Your entire self-image seems invested in convincing yourself that you've convinced everyone else that you're the tallest "intellectual" in the trough. But you hurl adjectives like a second-rate schoolyard bully. Makes others want to hurl dictionaries back at you. REAL philosophers and/or inellectuals are not so easily baited. You've clearly been sold a bill of goods, but not by anyone here. You need to work through your bottled-up rage on your own time. Dude...like, lay off the steroids...or take a vacation... get some therapy...or castration...or SOMETHING! WHATEVER IT TAKES--but find SOME way to contain your bile--it's peeling the paint off my pickets from half a world away! "No, really Straun--you're absolutely right--as always." (smirk) Oy vey. Now I need to re-read "Netiquette". Apologies to all, Riff Raff (dkm) MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
