@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:
This exchange marks one of the rare times I agree with david. We are not alone. Several people have commented on your poor ability to write coherently and well.
Communication is both a two way street and a form of relationship... No one ever understands another without the desire to do so, and even with the desire it is often difficult... And, if you do not like what you think you hear, then blowing some one off and saying they cannot be understood is about the easiest thing in the world...
Just consider, that only those wars where people could have and should have been able to understand each other and so avert their violence ever truly rise to the level of tragedies... Look at the Iliad, or our American Civil War... People could understand, but they chose not to because they thought that to kill was so much easier than compromise... As usual; many of the chiefs survived where many of the grunts did not... So in that sense, they were proved right, that to fight is better than to listen... If we think hard enough, we may be able to realize that no bar to communication is ever so great that it cannot be surmounted... We already know what most people really need to make a deal, and to have peace...And we know this to the extent that we know what we really need, since people are little different... It is in the perception of possible gain that people lose their hearing and sight and sense...
