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Re: Lego Direct (was Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:29:08 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > > Frankly, I'm a little miffed at the way Todd wrote off my "interpreting
> > > > myself in"
> > > (Did I miss a critical post anywhere? I've had my head in the books for most
> > > of the past 48 hours and for the tail end of this I've only caught about 1/2
> > > of the debate.)
> > I was refering to this post:
> > http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5675
> > In particular this part of it:
> > > > The manner in which others included themselves into my argument was
> > > > absolutely self-imposed.
> > > Agreed.
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> Hrm, I must be misunderstanding what RichardM meant. When he wrote...
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> > The manner in which others included themselves into my argument was
> > absolutely self-imposed. Spellbinding, in fact...who can account for it?
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> ...I read that as his simply stating that other people got involved into his
> argument by their own choice -- that no one held a gun to anyone's head and
> forced them to argue with him. But of course it's only human nature to
> respond (not that there's anything wrong with responding!). When I wrote
> "agreed" it was only agreeing with his (what I believe is an) objectively
> and patently true statement. If he was trying to communicate scorn with
> that statement (I wasn't trying to read between the lines), then I missed it,
> and I shouldn't have written "agreed."
Ok, what I read from it (and it had been mentioned a little more
explicitly before) was that Richard was saying that we self selected
ourselves as "targets". I agree, we certainly chose to participate.
--
Frank Filz
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