@msolga,
msolga wrote:
Thing is, David, we're responding to threads, ideas, arguments here.
Knocking around our thoughts & views about everything & anything & colliding with others, from time to time.
Now, If I wandered around my "real" world sprouting my thoughts and opinions like this
all the time ... well,
people might wonder!
It is a fact of human nature that sometimes one of us adopts an idea
by which he is intensely possessed and he feels moven to propagate
his thinking about it. For instance, I remember a local fellow about
40 years ago, named Vito Batista who was very devotedly against
rent control in NY. He attracted attention to himself by trailing
a donkey behind him in public, after which he expressed his views against rent control.
Whenever u saw Vito Batista speaking, u knew
for sure that he was denouncing rent control.
(I agreed with his opinion, but I was less obsessed with discussing it all the time.)
I kidded him about it; I asked him: "how do u feel about rent control?"
Before June of 2008, I was similarly situate qua supporting every citizen 's right to self defense.
I approved of the advice of Congressman Bob Barr, who said: "never leave any person 's presence
without informing him of where u stand on the right to self defense & the right to keep and bear arms."
I was not 100% about
actually DOING that, but I approved of the idea.
Some people are dedicated to spreading their religious opinions,
e.g., a fellow who coud be relied upon to be in a NYC subway,
in the same place every day for years, distributing his paper handouts
(printed at his own expense, with pictures) advocating his religious point of vu.
People who do this present the appearance of being a little nuts,
but are sufficiently motivated to do it regardless. Some guys have fought n died
for their beliefs, e.g., Abe Lincoln, not just spoken about them.
David
