Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!nxs From: nxs@fluke.UUCP (Bruce Golub) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: A commom senerio. Message-ID: <408@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 13:13:15 EDT Article-I.D.: tpvax.408 Posted: Fri Oct 5 13:13:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:46:10 EDT Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 38 A commom senerio: Poster X flails away at his/hers keyboard spewing out retoric that has nothing to do with the truth. Poster Y (a more informed type of person) calmly points out the errors in X's off-the-cuff, rash, and untrue statement. The result: Poster X either ignores the response completely, or starts spewing forth more retoric that has nothing to do with his/hers original mistake. Now, part of the problem is that very few people really know the truth (first hand) about the nuclear situation, Central America, the Middle East, etc. Componding the problem: people who take a stand, then go looking for proof that their stand is correct (therefore all others are false), people who repeat the retoric over and over agin until they swear that the reality in front of them is an illusion, and those who sit in the background, deafly listening to the discussion, never lifting their hands to utter a word (net.land talking), never speaking what is on their minds so no one (including themselves) will know if what they think is truthful or not, fearing that they will have to alter their outlook to fit the real world. Why am I typeing this. Because I could use one of the above definitions to discribe my behavior at times. But I try, ferverently to avoid these traps that strangle my intelligance. I urge others to do the same. Admit you can be wrong. Admit that no one has all the facts. Try thinking as apposed to reacting. Remember, most of us are only human, and as a species we still have a long wat to go. Thanks, Bruce Golub John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.