ros wrote-
Quote:I would also point out (even though it is obvious, it seems to be escaping some people), that nobody is obligated to respond to posts which don't interest them (Spendi being the prime example).
All posts interest me. They are what people have written and people are interesting.
I don't respond to many due to lack of time and my having a hierarchy of interests. Some I leave because my thoughts on the point they raise possibly might shock them.
But they are all of interest. The idea of "posts which don't interest them" would never enter my head.
Quote:Readers always get to choose who and what they read, and just because Spendi's posts result in disinterest and lack of response, is not defacto validation of his point.
I'm afraid I find that incoherent.
Quote:I don't listen to the crackpot on the corner tell me the world is going to end tomorrow either, but that doesn't make him right. It's the same with Spendi, except that spendi isn't standing on the corner.
It doesn't make him wrong either and how on earth do you know the cooc is telling anybody the world is going to end tomorrow if you haven't listened.
The crap about the right and left hand only exists, according to the materialist theory of mind, as a physical object in your head. If it exists in others too it certainly has nothing to do with me. It's a real nutcase belief as far as I'm concerned. It's the sort of thing that habitual asserters who are used to believing their own fantasies about other people often exhibit and in every aspect of their social relations. I think of it as self-inflicted injury.
