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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Control of emotions
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:47:47 EDT
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> David, have you realized how offensive and abusive your posting is?  Your
> contemptably smug attitude is without excuse or reason, and you exhibit all
> the faults you blame Julie of showing.  Your pseudo-historical-analogy is
> not only offensive, but without validity.  Julie asked for sources.  You
> should either post their names, say you don't accept expert advice, POLITELY,
> or clam up.  This sort of nonsense is uncalled for.  You should be ashamed
> of yourself. [ERIC McCOLM]

Uncalled for?  Smug?  It sounded to me like David has a very valid point when
he said that Julie's claim that she had 40+ books that supported her position
didn't mean much in the field of psychology where thousands of books exist
with tens of thousands of perspectives.  David has a valid point, so I
wonder why this was posted at all.

> And for those of you who wonder why this goes to everyone, many of you deserve
> the same.  I've read through articles whose chief points were debating tricks,
> one-upmanship, shouting matches, insult, smugness, ridicule, unfavorable
> speculation on peoples' mental states and personal lives, and other behavior
> unbecoming of 6-year-olds.  If this is the best in intellectual development
> the net can offer, then I am sorely disappointed in the lot of you.

May I humbly ask if this very article that you posted is exempt from this rule
of yours?  If so, why?
-- 
Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in
Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese...
				Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr