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Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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Wed, 26 May 2004 17:50:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
> > > It's actually your rabid anti-American
> > > sentiments that I find disturbing.
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> > Would you say that quite so readily if I were an American?
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> Sure, why not. Hateful sentiments are disturbing regardless of
> the source. For instance, I find Dave Schuler's rabidness disturbing
> as well,
I've always associated "disturbed" with Dave!
But not in a serious, bad way. More of a good way.
I don't see him as rabid, I see him more as "consistent". Some of his premises
are fallacious, but he's mostly on the side of the angels, as they say. More or
less.
> but I take comfort in the fact that he's still somehow able
> to find time for the megablocks. You are worrysome because of your
> one track mind, narrowly focused on any and all pain and suffering
> that may have been caused by me. Snap out of it. This is a toy
> forum. Share some toys. If you want to share your daily pain and
> suffering go start a blog.
Not a bad idea for anyone that thinks that they have a readership for that sort
of thing. But the blogs I enjoy are the ones that surface different points of
view, presented rationally and with clear writing, clear ideas, and clear
conclusions, not ones that are a stream of complaints about the world.
If I want to get a constant stream of "why?" and tangential insults, I'll go
talk to my teenager, I can get that for free. So I tend to filter Scott's
writings here out, for the most part, and you should too. (he used to do more
with the hobby, it is true, than he seems to now)
Don, (tangentially! :-) )I don't think you should sell yourself short with these
self disparaging remarks. You're more than holding your own here and you're a
breath of fresh air, to boot.
If you flub, admit it and move on, but don't say "well, I'm not a good writer"
all the time. It gets tiresome. You're better than most US high school grads
these days, I think. Better than Scott (measured by what he posts here) too.
IMHO anyway.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) I don't know how. His writing is like a powerful magnetic field. Very polarizing. Normally my perspective spins around, tilting ever so slightly to the right these days. But in his presence I feel compelled to align myself against him. I don't (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Its an interesting observation about the similarities between Scott and teenagers, and to my mind not nearly so negative as Larry might cheekily imply by ignoring them. Even more telling is the truly American approach of simply filtering out (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Sure, why not. Hateful sentiments are disturbing regardless of the source. For instance, I find Dave Schuler's rabidness disturbing as well, but I take comfort in the fact that he's still somehow able to find time for the megablocks. You are (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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