geep opened this issue on Jul 29, 2003 ยท 48 posts
hauksdottir posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 1:31 AM
runstuff, I was quoting from memory. You weren't teasing; you were attacking, in an arena where you could get away with it. Maybe you think that if you drive off all other sources of knowledge or experience, people will sit at your feet to lap up your precise and absolutely clear prose? Why should they pry off your bitter belittlements of others to find what may or may not be a nugget of truth? There are wells in San Jose where the water tastes of sulphur. It is nutricious and perfectly safe and necessary for life... but it stinks. The same thing can be said of your attitude. You may present facts necessary for the advancement of knowledge, but the presentation suffers from malodorousness and contentiousness. There are many wells here; we don't need to contend with your stench. Carolly