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Great respect for all of you.
Aug. 14th, 2005 11:03 pmIf I haven't made mention of this before, I have great respect for the intelligent, erudite, and learned people on this list. I also admire your willingness to call me on things that I say, providing alternate views and your own interpretations. Not only does it help my own knowledge, it often presents points of view that I may have overlooked or brings to light arguments that I may not have considered. It requires me to look at my own positions and decide whether they are as well thought out as I think they are. I admire your courage to tell me that I'm mistaken. I enjoy your willingness to engage in dialogue, even when I'm being obstinate, obtuse, or just plain stupid.
We may not agree on things. But, I hope that if we have argued, we have tried to do so under the attempt to get the other to see things from our own reality fragment. Understanding is crucial, even where it doesn't lead to acceptance. Consensus reality fragments can be built on differences, but both sides have to accept that what the other is offering is valuable enough to be used.
I'm not mad. Actually, I'm quite happy that I have people willing to take me to task. Even when I get full-bore rant and rave, that only shows that I respect your opinion enough to want to show you where it might have holes or flaws. So, thanks for all your work. I do appreciate it, at least, when I'm not scheming ways to counter your latest offering.
Of course, in true example format, I furnish someone that wants to see even very young children always fully clothed at the beach. There's something that doesn't ring right to the whole thing about it for me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe you can help. Maybe it's just strange, like TCP/IP over Bongo.
Although, it's a little comforting to find out that gossip's at least as old as Ancient Egypt. Comforting to whom, I don't know, but it's there. Maybe more comforting is that the people out in California, where the sun shines, will be experimenting with a new style of solar power generation. We'll see if it works as advertised.
And buried down here at the bottom - we find an accident where two punch lines ran, one of which was considerably stronger and more accurate (in my opinion) than the other. But since Bizarro's about showing the weird side of life, I can see where the first punch line might not be strange enough for him. Still, it was an accident. I think more people might like to see punch lines like the first slipped into the comics page, though.
Anyway. Bedtime.
We may not agree on things. But, I hope that if we have argued, we have tried to do so under the attempt to get the other to see things from our own reality fragment. Understanding is crucial, even where it doesn't lead to acceptance. Consensus reality fragments can be built on differences, but both sides have to accept that what the other is offering is valuable enough to be used.
I'm not mad. Actually, I'm quite happy that I have people willing to take me to task. Even when I get full-bore rant and rave, that only shows that I respect your opinion enough to want to show you where it might have holes or flaws. So, thanks for all your work. I do appreciate it, at least, when I'm not scheming ways to counter your latest offering.
Of course, in true example format, I furnish someone that wants to see even very young children always fully clothed at the beach. There's something that doesn't ring right to the whole thing about it for me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe you can help. Maybe it's just strange, like TCP/IP over Bongo.
Although, it's a little comforting to find out that gossip's at least as old as Ancient Egypt. Comforting to whom, I don't know, but it's there. Maybe more comforting is that the people out in California, where the sun shines, will be experimenting with a new style of solar power generation. We'll see if it works as advertised.
And buried down here at the bottom - we find an accident where two punch lines ran, one of which was considerably stronger and more accurate (in my opinion) than the other. But since Bizarro's about showing the weird side of life, I can see where the first punch line might not be strange enough for him. Still, it was an accident. I think more people might like to see punch lines like the first slipped into the comics page, though.
Anyway. Bedtime.
