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- From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: logic confounding people unclear on the concept
- Message-ID: <6PHsXB3w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:42:52 EST
- References: <dsmither.727645242@cunews>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: darkpark
- Lines: 48
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- > For the record, the strong reply was for anyone else that was reading.
- > I was meaning that *you* were annoying. Do you need a brick to fall
- > on your head? There are many other groups that would suit your
- > purposes (whatever they are) better - but you are not dealing with a
- > homogenous body of people, an 'audience' that can answer your
- > questions about what this thing, 'angst' is that you so cheerfully try
- > to avoid. And this is not an Angst Research Station, so quit posing
- > theatrical questions about your gender. Again, my advice would be to
- > find somewhere else to post - it is hard enough to negotiate meaning
- > through this technological medium without deliberately shit-disturbing
- > people like yourself.
-
- Y'know, there ARE decaffinated brands which taste every bit as good as
- the real thing.
-
- I agree with your about her/his annoying messages, and also have some
- doubts as to the true identity of this person, but c'mon...aren't you
- REALLY upset because someone like this upsets your personal apple cart in
- a very unpleasant way? I mean, the most valuable currency in alt.angst is
- honesty. People come here to cry on someone's shoulder, and many of the
- rest of us (myself included) take these stories at face value and feel
- for them?
-
- Well...the nagging doubt whenever I read anything here is "What if
- he/she's a liar, and is playing me for a fool?". Terribly irritating if
- one's been feeling sorry for a practical joker now, isn't it?
-
- That's where your...ah...victim comes in. If ONE person can try to play
- us, all certainties go out the window, and alt.angst becomes a colder
- place. Thing is, to blame all of this complex reaction on one annoying
- user really isn't fair, since you're attributing structural faults of
- this newsgroup to a buffoon who inadvertently exploits them.
-
- Just ignore her/him. If you keep going the way you have been, the flames
- will continue, and may just burn us all up along with the two of you.
-
-
- > Diane S.
-
- marlowe
-
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