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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: Re: Intro to me and question for all
- Message-ID: <75905@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:15:13 GMT
- References: <MUFFY.92Dec16171122@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.201002.4046@u.washington.edu> <MUFFY.92Dec22124315@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.230020.7673@u.washington.edu> <MUFFY.92Dec22221447@remarque.berkeley.edu>
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- I am really amazed at how this thread has degenerated into nitpicking,
- contradicting, insulting, dredging up and re-interpreting the past, and
- dragging in the opinions of uninvolved third parties in attempts to gain
- authority. It's a perfect example of how *not* to conduct an argument with
- a lover...
-
- Surely the folks posting to this thread know that there is a point beyond
- which nitpicking someone's words becomes destructive. And that when
- complex concepts are being discussed, two people can't always agree on
- what a particular word connotes. (So you describe what you mean instead,
- and discuss that, instead of fighting over what word to use.)
-
- I'm surprised that people who've written marvelously insightful
- things in this newsgroup and elsewhere have gotten sucked into this.
- Yes, I know, it's The Net, and flamewars happen. Yes, I know, I am a
- lurker here, and I have no right poking my nose in where it doesn't
- belong. Yes, I know, I could kill the thread. But BLECH! Personally,
- I would rather y'all were spending your energy dispensing wisdom about
- other topics.
- --
- Stef Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and
- stef@apple.com Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of
- Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
- But one can be converted into the other.
- --Spider Robinson
-