Posted on 07/04/2004 5:19:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
ooga booga, me Mac.
my sn is in scotch Gaelic, i can greet, thank and ask you simple questions in korean, japanese, cantonese, vietnamese, french, german, and spanish... i have a grasp of the norse language regarding runespeak (dead language) but im a moron who doesnt understand that language is a means of communication that can have its rules bent and still make sense.....
Lan dhen cac
"Turtle droppings -- sandy beach -- retro-evo-flagellatorium ... Masticating Mastadons, DEATH!"
< /fdot memorial lunacy mode>
if you thought my goal was to impress people, instead of conveying ideas, dont you think i would be a little mroe conformist to the rules? im not trying to make you go "oh, look at him, hes original"
i genuinely dont care about that. you either get me or you dont. you dont have to mock me on the sides though, that isnt discussion.
ah screw it, you all "win" if that gets you randy.
you refuse to listen (and claim i make no sense, yet pick apart my statements, meaning you have a grasp of them) and i just give up. we're to different.
maybe one day ill form an opinion that everyone else has to agree on for me to feel like im worth something. until then,ill have to keep being an individual.
if everyone agrees, no one is thinking.
what would comments to others regarding me be then? yes, they were public, but you didnt even address them to me. despite them being about me. thats where i come ito "on the side"
see, i didnt "mock" or "attack" YOU on the side. i approached you directly in a private manner, to your face.
The problem with your stance is that on this forum (especially in the science threads), you are judged/evaluated by not only what you write but also how you write it (i.e. present yourself).
oh well.
When you present yourself on a board such as this, all that anyone has to go on is what you write. It so happens grammar, spelling, and sentence structures are factored into how you are perceived.
Where I work, even email that is not "correct" is frowned on.
For example, if I wrote:
i is an sientist
You would immediately suspect my education level was not up to par with being said scientist.
This isn't Mrs. Grundy's self-esteem class. There are math questions that are settled. You don't get to have an opinion. If you have questions, take them to a textbook.
The same pretty much applies to your jabbering about gravity. It is fairly easy to come up with fantasy theories about "concentrating" gravity or traveling faster than light, but any useful and testable idea will involve some mathematics -- not exactly your strong suit. Your "ideas" do not even amount to clever science fiction technobabble. If the did, they would at least be coherent and amusing.
Now, about your approach to me, the less said the better for you. You sent me an incoherent freepmail accusing me of somehow changing my position from support of your positions to mocking you. I can't even imagine where I might have supported you on this thread. Maybe on some other thread dealing with politics? Maybe. But believe it or not, science doesn't answer to politics. They don't ask the same kinds of questions.
People, not just those who reply to you, do judge you by your ablity to write English. Every post of yours is not just looked at here, but by those at DU and Echelon (and probably by the GRU for that matter.) Romance may be fleeting but the Internet lasts longer that herpes.
That would be
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1165395/posts?page=996#996
To which I responded:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1165395/posts?page=1027#1027
Note to self: if you use the spell checker it inserts HTML, which then screws up the automatic URL linking.
Communication only happens when your message is taken seriously. We can read your broken syntax. Trust me, that isn't your biggest problem.
The following quote seems apropos here:
"If the words don't say it, the mind didn't think it." - Richard Mitchell
A combination of ethos and logos, as it were. Unfortunately, creationists almost always resort to pathos..
Followed by sinking into bathos.
Constantly, and the "deductive" logic is so compelling that we get results like this.
i searched my sent fiels, and i find nothing that claims you supported me. i said i supported you, and then noted that you didnt even make an attempt to follow my reasoning.
and ive taken my questions to a text book. problem? textbooks on clusters dont exist yet!
i see where you are coming from, but i still hold that this is a blog, not a workplace, not an email to a coworker, not even a post-it note. i value this for sheer conversation without the muddles of profession.
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