Brandon's abrasive style (was Re: What's better about Rubythan Python?)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Cliff Wells wrote:
>
> Quoting the Dalai Lama:
> Conventional truth, conventional reality is a consensus reality,
> something that people agree on. Events do not have a reality of their
> own. All events depend on other events. Nothing (no person) has an
> independent identity, there is no intrinsic reality. What is called
> "reality" depends on the context of other factors.
>
> While I don't necessarily consider the Dalai Lama an authority on all
> (or even many) things, I think there is certainly a great amount of
> truth to this observation.  If the majority of people think you are
> trolling, then, whether you intend to or not, perhaps you are.

Then you missed what the Dalai Lama said.  He did not speak of essence.  He
spoke of events depending on other events.  And I'm quite conversant with
what Troll Hunters depend on.

> If you were being truly pragmatic, as you claim, then you must surely
> realize that offending people with an abrasive approach is
> counter-productive.

Counter-productive to what agenda?  My current agenda is identifying the
unworkable people and disposing of them.

> You might think that killfiling those people will teach
> them a lesson (it won't, they could probably care less),

Frankly, I don't think I've killfiled anyone who's worth the trouble to
un-killfile.  I seriously doubt that they have anything important to say
that I have to hear.

> Part of the reason people respond to you so violently is because you
> tend to make unsubstantiated and provocative claims and then accuse
> people of being "knee-jerk reactionaries" when they dismiss them.

It's only the people calling me a troll that I label "knee-jerk
reactionaries."

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Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.