Re: from the village voice (pc)

["anthony_r" <anthony_r>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sonic5" <sonic5>
To: <babel-list>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: from the village voice (pc)


>
>
> On 23 Jun 2002, at 11:24, anthony_r wrote:
>
> >>lots of snipped stuff...<<
>
> So I guess I'd  seemed snide if I suggested think that you've just
> proved my point about political discussions on the 'net too quickly
> turning personal.
>
> s5
> (flattered to have superseded war as a political discussion topic)



Actually, you're proving your own point without any help from me. You're the on
e
who's making it into something personal, which is pretty strange, as is your
parenthetical comment that you are now "flattered" it's somehow about you. If i
t's
about you, you have only yourself to blame (or possibly just your parents) for
skewing the discussion that way. You see, once you've made it personal, there's
 no
way to undo that without reference to how you are personally doing it, a kind o
f
self-referential self-fulfilling prophesy  (I've read Hofstadter's "Gödel, Esch
er,
Bach" so you can't put anything past me! <g> )


Lighten up!

Anthony