On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Troll/Idiot wrote: > Brewster, see my reply to Gordon's post, the part about personal attacks. > > I do apologize for assuming you were relatively inexperienced. I had made > the unwarranted assumption that you were in your early 20's or younger. That > said, you've been around long enough to realize that "given the same facts, > different people will reach different conclusions, equally valid" is not > meaningless psychobabble.
I spent years working in residential treatment with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clinical social workers, patient schizophrenics, paranoids, and so on. I know how real psych professionals sound and how pop-psyc people sound It is meaningless psychobabble. Not all conclusions are equally valid. I'm REALLY sick of this thread. The list has standards and specifications. Anyone who doesn't like them can start their own list. It's a case of, "We're playing ball in MY yard with MY ball, so we play by MY rules." If you get a ball and invite us into your yard, you can state the rules, but until you've made the effort to create a program like OpenOffice (or ANY open source program that helps people) and are taking the effort to moderate or maintain a mailing list, then SHUT UP and play by the rules. Or go home and take your wining with you. Hal > > Troll/Idiot > Have a nice day. Don't expect everyone else to think like you do. > > > On 13-Feb-10 03:37, Brewster Gillett wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 22:28 -0600, Troll/Idiot wrote: >> >>> Well, Brewster, you've chewed it over at some length on several >>> occasions. Get used to the idea that given the same facts, different >>> people will reach different conclusions, equally valid. >>> >> bg: >> >> I'm familiar with that possibility. I am also well able to understand >> that there are only two possible interpretations of the typical cursor >> positioning in "REPLY" mode, and a careful assessment of both >> choices makes it abundantly plain which one is superior. >> Life presents us with a pattern of differential choices whose >> relative worth is plain to see for those who bother to examine them. >> >> Something that those of the "Whatever!" generations seem to consider >> way too much hard work for them. It's a lot easier to fall back on >> meaningless psychobabble bromides like "different people will reach >> different conclusions, equally valid." >> >> I am painfully aware that, in the 21st century, we are inundated with >> people who have been carefully indoctrinated to believe that all points >> of view are equally valid, and that all human beings deserve respect >> solely based in their ability to draw breath. That the most horrific >> possible outcome might be that something, or someone, could be shown >> to be superior to something, or someone, else. >> >> You'll pardon me if I reject that shit out of hand :-) >> >> Troll: >> >> >>> Some people, more experienced than you in email lists and internet forums, >>> find top >>> posting preferable. It's not just the newbies, the ignorant and the >>> inexperienced. >>> >> bg: >> >> Whatever gave you the idea that you know what my level of experience is? >> I first used email in 1981, and first used elists/forums in about the >> middle Eighties. I have never encountered anyone with a similar length >> of exposure who prefers top-posting. You would be the first. Assuming >> you go back that far. >> >> By the way, my email software, a widely used and well-established open >> source program, specifically says, under "Composer Preferences", >> that top posting is "not recommended". >> >> >>> Troll/Idiot >>> Have a nice day. Don't expect everyone else to think like you do. >>> >> bg: >> >> You really are hilarious, and seem to have drawn your argumentative >> structures from your days in preschool. It is not a matter of expecting >> people to "think like [I] do". It is a matter of expecting them >> to think logically, and expecting them to exert a little mindfulness >> as to how their work impacts their fellow Net users. >> >> Now, suppose you explain to me how much sense this three-element >> interleave would have made had it been written in reverse order. >> >> Top-posting is about laziness, and about ignorance, and about having >> a tin ear when it comes to the more subtle nuances of communications. >> >> All of which tend towards, if not limited to, those with the least >> experience of the Net and its group activities. You are fighting a >> losing battle, philosophically, and your adversaries in the war, in the >> aggregate, are vastly more experienced, not just at the Net, but >> apparently at life, than you. >> >> The fact that you may have millions of AOLers, and Yahooers, MSNers >> and gmailers at your back, these days, still does not make yours the >> correct position. >> >> >> Brewster >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
