drowning in dross.

"Martin W. Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Micheal Artindale said:

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>Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
>then beat you with experience.

They'll never get me down to their level.

Actually, for you to get to their level, you would have to go up.

Well, I just don't want to stand out.

We all stand out in one way or another.

Brains, is were I want to stand out... I do not want someone to think I am a
fool.

Wait

I

Think

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L

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To

Your

Level.

If someone knows how I can raise my level... Please tell me.

Micheal

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Micheal Artindale said:

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>"Martin W. Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>>>Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
>>>then beat you with experience.
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>>They'll never get me down to their level.
>
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>Actually, for you to get to their level, you would have to go up.

Well, I just don't want to stand out.

We all stand out in one way or another.

Brains, is were I want to stand out... I do not want someone to think I

am a

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fool.

That boat sailed long ago.

When did that happen?

What makes you think i am a fool?

Micheal

Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
then beat you with experience.

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...

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Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
then beat you with experience.

They'll never get me down to their level.

Man o' Tea said:

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...

WMD for example.

Micheal Artindale said:

"Martin W. Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
then beat you with experience.

They'll never get me down to their level.

Actually, for you to get to their level, you would have to go up.

Well, I just don't want to stand out.

"Man o' Tea" <[email hidden]> pondered, puzzeled,
prognosticated (perhaps even premeditated), and then, in a very wise
voice, sed: :

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But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...

What is that, the Doobie Brothers?

;-)

--
chris

"Nothing is real."

Micheal Artindale said:

"Martin W. Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Micheal Artindale said:

"Martin W. Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>[email hidden] wrote:
>
>
>>Never argue with a fool. He'll only bring you down to his level, and
>>then beat you with experience.
>
>They'll never get me down to their level.

Actually, for you to get to their level, you would have to go up.

Well, I just don't want to stand out.

We all stand out in one way or another.

Brains, is were I want to stand out... I do not want someone to think I am a
fool.

That boat sailed long ago.

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Wait

I

Think

I

Am

F

A

L

L

I

N

G

To

Your

Level.

If someone knows how I can raise my level... Please tell me.

Micheal

Well, for one thing, you haven't kill-filed an obvious troll. And if
you wouldn't respond to trolls, kill-filing would work a lot better.
We're here to talk about swimming, not to listen to trolls whine about
who is smarter.

Man o' Tea said:

Well, for one thing, you haven't kill-filed an obvious troll. And if
you wouldn't respond to trolls, kill-filing would work a lot better.
We're here to talk about swimming,

....and CSI,

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not to listen to trolls whine about
who is smarter.

Micheal Artindale said:

If someone knows how I can raise my level... Please tell me.

That could raise complex questions. Like: how would one measure that
level, and why (in that respect), would one want too?
If one wanted to in order to impress others, would one loose that
desire upon increasing their level? Equally, might the desire to
increase in order to help others also vanish upon elevation? Would the
continued presence of such desire(s) indicate a lack of increase in
spite of other evidence supporting it? How much would it matter if
others have an insufficient level by which to enable them to engage
with the recently elevated?
On that last question, it is not always a variation in levels that
creates the communication problems such as what we have seen here off
late.
In trying to unravel some niggling thoughts I've being developing the
following theory:
We all have an innate rhythm, which for all I know pertains to string
theory, but either way it is sub-consciously noticeable within our
learning and conveying of knowledge methods. (guess work, ok!)In that
regard, one might change tempo and even position, but still, one's
rhythm remains pretty much constant.
We sometimes feel a need to adjust out rhythm, like when, upon visiting
a new pool/ beech/river we find our stroke doesn't feel quite right.
We may think we adjust to the water / circumstances, we change tempo or
even style, but deep down we remain ourselves.
Therefore, when imparting knowledge we also convey a small trace of
rhythm that gets sub-consciously picked up by others and it may be a
break in just such a rhythm that creates an instinctively negative
reactions.
That raises the question off how could such an innate rhythm become
disrupted?
Well, I'm sure drugs could do it, but that's a whole separate
debate.
Motive, which varies from what is being presented, could do so also.
So, say I was just looking for an argument to pass the time... I might
engage in conversation under the guise of "debate" but my motives,
which may have hidden themselves away even from me, would create just
such a disruption to my rhythm and possibly with consequences I would
not have imagined. One might even think one's motive is to pass the
time, yet the real motive might turn out to stem from elsewhere, e.g. a
form of personal image inadequacy.
Within the setting of posting to a newsgroup, an example of consequence
following rhythm disruption may at first be no more than a note of
discomfort, but then the variations in rhythm, as distinct from change
of approach or stance in order to convey information, will raise more
serious doubts about an individual to the point that regardless of
considerable evidence to the contrary, one might wonder if that poster
is nothing more than a mostly fictitious persona whose authenticity is
supported by information downloaded from the net, which might explain
why information provided by said sad soul sometimes seems to jump
within its pace as if some difficulty in obtaining it had being
experienced, and a persona created by someone who might never have
learnt to swim in order to comfort an inadequacy.
Such is but one consequence of such disruption.
Obviously, I refrain from naming names because I see no constructive
advantage to doing so. Though I feel it important to outline I am not
referring to you.
It does raise yet one more question. If someone who has downloaded
information from elsewhere and for undeclared motives provides accurate
information to us, does it really matter?

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Michael Sollner said:

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Well, for one thing, you haven't kill-filed an obvious troll. And if
you wouldn't respond to trolls, kill-filing would work a lot better.
We're here to talk about swimming, not to listen to trolls whine about
who is smarter.

This is probably the most intelligent post that I have seen on this
newsgroup in a long, long time.

Gee, you don't think all the messages about swimming were intelligent

then?

This is what happens in the middle of the winter when its cold out, and
there is ice on the lake, and we are all stuck inside.

We all are intelegent in our own special ways.

Micheal

"Man o' Tea" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, for one thing, you haven't kill-filed an obvious troll. And if
you wouldn't respond to trolls, kill-filing would work a lot better.
We're here to talk about swimming, not to listen to trolls whine about
who is smarter.

This is probably the most intelligent post that I have seen on this
newsgroup in a long, long time.

Michael Sollner said:

"Man o' Tea" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, for one thing, you haven't kill-filed an obvious troll. And if
you wouldn't respond to trolls, kill-filing would work a lot better.
We're here to talk about swimming, not to listen to trolls whine about
who is smarter.

This is probably the most intelligent post that I have seen on this
newsgroup in a long, long time.

Gee, you don't think all the messages about swimming were intelligent then?