From: Leo on Jun 29, 6:32 pm
On 29 Jun 2005 02:34:17 -0700, wrote:
Leo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2005 19:12:17 -0700, wrote:
Leo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2005 09:59:04 -0700, wrote:
Leo wrote:
On 26 Jun 2005 18:08:19 -0700, wrote:
Leo wrote:
On 26 Jun 2005 11:19:31 -0700, wrote:
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Option 1 or Option 2.
Those are not concrete actions.
To, Sir, they are quite obviously not.
They are choices!
Decision is a concrete action.
In this case, your decision.
Your action.
Tsk, Jimmie will not do the "action." He will stay on his subject
and his "correctness" until the coroner pries the keyboard away
from his cold, dead fingers...
You sound like the chimes of Big Ben.
WRRRONNNNGGGGG....
WRRRONNNNGGGGG....
WRRRONNNNGGGGG....
Jimmie Noserve does his best to sound like the Beeb's SW BC
signature sound...
When text is displayed upon a monitor, or uopn a page, does it make a
sound?
Most assuredly not.
If a tree falls on a florist, will he make himself a bouquet? :-)
That's called trolling. You're saying I should not respond to Len's
trolls. In other words, you suggest that I shut up. But you can't bring
yourself to write clearly and plainly, choosing to gussy up your words
with psychobabble.
What you fail to notice is that Len dances at the ends of others'
strings far more. And that while I write the truth, he inserts mistakes
(intentional or otherwise) to bait others into responding.
Look at the number of posts I have made in this thread. Or other
threads. Compare to the number made in response to me.
There's also the organ grinder's red-hatted monkey who will do almost
anything for attention. Including misquotes of others.
Now you'll say that's not the point. And perhaps in your fantasy, it
isn't.
Please try to stay focussed.
Everything is not about Len.
[oh, heck and darn! :-) ]
Does he possess you so completely that your world revolves around him?
Break free.
Decide.
Long ago I removed the geas and erased the pentacle, breaking the
spell.
Tsk. I must have been using indelible chalk...
Heap powerful magic stuff I gots... :-)
I have decided that it is. Simple as A, B and C
Not at all.
Think harder.
Use your education.
And focus.
There are only two choices available to you.
A and B. Option 1 - or Option 2.
There is no C.
I give him a D-minus...
"resist the drive to respond, even when you know you are in the right"
= shut up.
That is quite an oversimplification, Jim.
Resisting the temptation to be suckered in to responding to a post
designed with the intent of making you jump would require the
discipline of refusing to respond, and the wisdom to recognize the
need..
Do you have that discipline, Jim? The wisdom?
Can you resist the temptation to respond? Do you possess the inner
strength?
Not so far.
Not in the past - but perhaps in future. Perhaps today!
Decide - Owned or Free.
Polish - or Avoid.
RPN or Clear?
Yet you quote Caine and the stuff about a man not being silent.
(Forgetting for a moment that Caine was a make-believe person in a TV
show rife with pseudo-wise Eastern philosophical sayings...)
That quote did not apply to your situation.
It referenced 'wrong' in more of a human sense - i.e. someone doing
'wrong' to others. Intervening - i.e. 'correcting the wrong', was to
stop the actions of the perpetrator of said wrong, thereby protecting
the perpetrator (bu getting suckered every time) and the victim (of
the resultant bashing). Caine could not help you - he would be too
confused.
Your current situation requires a different metaphor:
"A man walking along discovers a turd in the middle of his path. What
should he do?
If he is wise, he would step around it and go along his way. But, if
he should pick it up and begin polishing it, in the expectation that
it would somehow gain value as a result of his effort, he would be
quite foolish indeed."
Polish - or Avoid.
[ahhh...the Light of Wisdom of the East dawns upon the grasshopper]
You must decide.
Why?
You must.
Says who?
There is no option.
If you continue on the current path, then you have chosen Option 1.
Things continue as they are.
You remain owned.
[the upkeep on that "ownership" is terrible...I'm going to Ebay]
If you elect to change, then you have chosen Option 2.
You become free.
You must decide!
[I should have gotten a prenup before coming in here...]
You want me to shut up. That is clear. You dress it up in fancy
terms but that's what it comes down to.
Do you possess the discipline which you will require in order to avoid
responding to each and every taunt and tease posted to annoy you?
Do you possess the wisdom to see things as they are, and recognize a
need for change?
I see little evidence so far - but there is hope.
Look within. Think.
And Decide!
"He polished up the bell so care-full-ee, that now he is an
extra in the ham coterie..."
[with apologies to Mssrs Gilbert and Sullivan]
Option 1 - Speak out against incorrect information (even though it's
probably a troll)
Correct.
Option 2 - Shut up
Oversimplification, as discussed above.
Big Jim allus RIGHT. Me allus WRRRONNNNGGGGG (or a "troll")
Bells are still "wringing..."
WRRRONNNNGGGG...WRRRONNNGGGG...WRRRONNNGGGG...WRRR ONNNGGGG...
That would require Leo to be responsible..
That would relieve you of your requirement to think.
"The League is his shepherd, he shall not have to think...}
Perhaps you are talking about yourself *and* Len.
Focus. Everything is not about Len.
Suppose you are correct, and Len's purpose is to
Focus. Everything is not about Len.
And try to start what you finish. 
A problem with a wide-angle lens is that everything seems in
the field of view...but proper focussing requires concentration
on the center of the image. Some just don't have the single-
lens REFLEX to do it... [clik......clique]
"I am not a number! I am a free man"
Well, no.
At the moment, you are at a crossroads.
To be free, you must decide.
Status quo - or change.
Easy route is status quo. No need to fire up brainworks. Every
day the beginning of every other day of the past...except:
"All things are as they were then, except Jim was THERE..."
[apologies to CBS and their old radio show "You Are There"]
I need a better agent. I was getting used to being at the
"center focus" of so much agitated hate. Maybe I need more
more exposure? [I was using Eastman Super-XX at ASA 400]
buy, buy,