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pidunk 07:44 pm UTC 08/14/07 |
| In reply to: | re: PLEASE READ EVERYONE!!! - Pudding 11:37 pm UTC 08/13/07 |
> > A little secret, my health problems make it hard for me to > > read long things too, but that is just because of the > > health. I would love to train myself into more brief > > phrases and say what I want to say in fewer words. Some > > people are really good at that. It's an art or a talent > > that I sorrily lack. > > If you stuck to reality and told the truth a bit more > often, then perhaps you already possess the talent of > writing shorter sentences and don't need to be trained at > all. > The only post I will make to this, as I have said it before,and you should by now in life and on this board know, that short comments are often made by those who want to deceive. The element is this: By making it brief, dramatic, to some kind of hostile or combative point, one thinks very carefully of what to omit that would contradict their statement, and omits it, one thinks carefully of what effect the briefness has and maximizes it, and one thinks of what is arguable and avoids it. In summary, where someone wants to deceive, they employ brief statements that do not leave them open to the controversy that they wish to control. In politics this is called Rhetoric and it is ruining our world. The more we promote the acceptability of rhetoric the more destructive we are letting others be. To those who rely on rhetoric, the acceptability of their rhetoric hides their motivations, and hides their true intentions and positions. The reason why I do not make brief statements is because I know the difference between facts and rhetoric. The reason why I am explaining it to you is because I care about our world. You want me to write brief phrases to find holes in them, and I write long phrases to prevent holes from being made prey to your scavenging. When you stop scavenging for my weaknesses, I may be more comfortable, and comfortable enough to write brief statements that I feel you may take on its face value. But we are obviously far from that. Aside from this issue, I happen to have a love affair with twisty phrases and I love them so much that I gravitate to them so that the more words the more perversely happy I am. This is an area that I am working on, which has nothing to do with rhetoric. If I can meet my avoidance of scavenging with a briefer expression, then I think we will have the best of both worlds in terms of my own writing. And you calling me a liar is doing nothing for progress of any kind. The entire structure of my intellectual upbringing is based on intellectual examinations, which entail questions and answers, and discussions. To just be called a liar without any form of examining of my statements in any earnest fashion (and I know that this is impossible for you and so I do not hold hopes, therefore you are now on my ignore list), is to be detrimental to any form of progress in any intellectual debate. It makes you a sissy. | |
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