[MD] Changes in 2011

[rapsncows at fastmail.fm]

dmb,
(Marsha, here is an example of what I am going on about, too),

> dmb says:
> Flattery will get you nowhere. As much as I like to believe what you're
> saying, it just ain't so. Like I said, my complaints are about violations
> of the MOST BASIC STANDARDS. I'm only talking about standards that are
> commonly understood on a high school debate team, not that I've ever been
> on one. 

[Tim]
very clever pulling out my complement to you, and putting it at the top
for everyone to see.  But no matter, I meant it.  It wasn't flattery. 
I'm not a sycophant and I have nowhere to get.  From what little I can
tell, you do seem to be quite skilled in the rational.  OF course I
could be wrong, but the fact that it seems that way early on is a good
indication that I am not.  Otherwise though, you might be an amoral
driveling idiot outside of the purely rational realms.  I have no
evidence to contradict that yet.

Anyway, where are you trying to get?  this is not rhetorical.  I really
hope for some hint of an answer at least.
 

> 
> dmb says:
> Lonely people deserve our compassion, of course. But I also think it's
> wrong to use this forum to satisfy one's emotional needs. Using this
> forum to alleviate loneliness is abusing this forum. It is an act that
> says MY personal needs are more important than the forum's central
> purpose. It is a willful disregard of this group's reason for being. It's
> selfish and inconsiderate. It's noise.
> 
> 
> Get a dog.

[Tim]
I prefer cats.  But I'm not in such a position anyway.  Neither am I
lonely.  But I am mostly alone.  Maybe lonesome, on rare occasion...

anyway, I think I was premature in my assessment in your capacities. 
You excerpted RMP so well I thought you understood.  But you say: "the
forum's central purpose."  Who is the forum?  How does it have a
purpose?  You would do well to listen to Marsha.  How conventional you
become outside reference to authorities!  Horse has a purpose.  He has
created a forum for that purpose.  This forum is no independent existing
entity that it *has* a purpose.  Now, do you think it better that you
follow that with "group's"?  The group is no independent existing entity
that has a purpose either.  It is individuals who have purpose.  And, we
come together into this thing that we conventionally call a group, or a
forum.  It seems we all have different purposes though.  I have told you
mine.  Will you tell us yours?

Tim
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