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The first thing you learn in flying is NEVER to put much faith in general
analogies. Well now no one said to apply the idea generally onto all of Usenet : ) I think the point of when it applies is clear. No my friend....unfortunately it's man's basic flaws and individual personalities that will determine how communication is carried out on Usenet, not the old "ignore um" analogy. But it sounds good anyway :-))))) Dudley Henriques Actually, when you consider no one on Usenet can do anything to you, (or if they perceive they can, they are wrong) then it begs the question, why do you care what they think? If you don't care why argue? Once there is no pointless argument there is no headache. "Ignore them" is not the point I make, "Know yourself and be self aware" is more like it. Now I'm not saying stay away from intelligent debate. I'm talking about "Knuckleheads." Further more, my last piece of wisdom on "who cares about Usenet anyway?" is that it is rare to find anyone who's mind can be changed through Usenet (R.A.S. seems to be a wonderful exception, but I digress). Knowing that, why try go crazy defending against or trying to prove nothing? Personally, anything I read on Usenet is always taken with a grain of salt, no matter who writes it. Shouldn't it be that way? In any case, the approach is hardly "ignore them." My thoughts on the subject come from the course the NYPD put us through called Verbal Judo http://www.verbaljudo.org/verbaljudolawenforcement.html -- Dave A Aging Student Pilot "Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message ink.net... "Dave A." wrote in message news:bqoee.15830$c86.1122@trndny09... "Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message Forgive me if this comes out wrong, bit this reminds me of a few things I discussed with my wife. She had problems with a few acquaintances that imposed themselves as friends. They would set lunch dates with her and give her grief if she did not accept or would cancel. Each meeting she would find draining because these "friends" would complain about their lives endlessly. So I had to tell her a little thing I learned years ago that helped change things, "Just because the phone rings doesn't mean you have to answer it." This helped me when I was an Auxiliary police officer here in New York. An unarmed volunteer in a very real police uniform walking the beat in Queens. There you learn early on that just because a person is yelling profanity doesn't mean you have to yell back. You learn that flashing a badge doesn't mean squat to a person that is just plain ****ed off, and also that no amount of reasoning will stop a person that wants to rant. Working in this capacity one would think "well, real cops have it easier because they have guns and people respect that." Well, that isn't true. They have it worse. You would think you could tell a person while in a police uniform that "there is a power line down ahead, you can't drive down this road," that they would not yell at you " I HAVE to get down that road. Nope. You know what works best there? You say, "well you can't" and you direct your attention elsewhere. They mutter and drive off. Arguing just prolongs the incident. So, This brings me to my way if dealing with Usenet and it has a lot to do with what you say here; "you have a tendency to learn early on what's important and what isn't important in life" ignoring the knuckleheads "phone calls" is the first step to getting something from usenet besides a headache. -- Dave A Aging Student Pilot |
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