[MD] BeTteR-neSs (undefined or otherwise)

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Hi dmb,

I suppose I deserved that.  Peace?

Regards,
Mark

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:58 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Mark said to dmb:
> ...You would probably argue that Beethoven is not worth listening to
> because he is old fashioned.  ..Conservatism comes from seeing what still
> works and sticking with it.  Modernity is not all it is cracked up to be.
>  It would also seem that you are part of the old guard here at MoQ.  If so,
> perhaps you should let some new blood in so that it can continue to develop.
> It appears that factions are formed, the old against the new.  The easy
> solution is to prevent new thought in and be conservative and stick with the
> old.
>
>
>
> dmb says:
>
> So if I rightly follow your line of "thought", I reject old things because
> they're old but I am a member of the old guard who should make room for new
> blood because the easy solution is to stick with the old.
>
> Huh? What kind of hair-brained logic is that? How can I be condemned for
> being the old guard AND condemned for rejecting the old fashioned at the
> same time?
>
> And how do you figure that my opinion would suffer from working at it for a
> long time? Since when does experience and hard work count against a person?
> Are we supposed to honor the lazy and the ignorant, the unschooled knee-jerk
> opinion instead?
>
> It's not just that you and I have come to different conclusions or that we
> have different points of view. The problem is that you're just really bad at
> thinking in general. It's not just the ridiculous mess quoted above either.
> I've watched you "debate" Dan and it's really depressing. I find it
> impossible to believe that any institution of higher learning would grant
> you a degree. Hell, I don't understand how you ever graduated from high
> school. You're an idiot.
>
>
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