"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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"slenon" wrote in message
om...
What makes you think the conflicts are only between people who
have never
met?
Charlie...

I don't think that to be the case, Charlie. Both cases are true.
I
merely
used one case.

poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up
around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in
trade.

Well, some things never change:

"The [Roffians]cannot love their [newsgroup] without hating a good
part, if not the majority, of their compatriots. Without having
injured, disqualified, incarcerated, deported, or massacred enough to
satisfy the exigencies of their zeal, they accuse themselves of
moderation and tepidity. A good [Roffian] looks on himself as such
only if he has caused death during harsh periods, caused sufficient
shame and ruin...amid a number of his compatriots to calm his dread
that he has not given all of his love to his [newsgroup]. Unless
avarice or personal or family egoism has not already made him
indifferent to the public cause, his lack of fervor leads to
self-loathing if he has not delivered other [Roffians] to the
inquisition, to the police, to the executioners, to the
grave-diggers."*¹


yfitons
wayno (it gets more tiresome every day)

Perhaps, but no one has actually died of it yet, and the fish still
rise......well, on a good day, anyway.

Wolfgang
*from Emmanuel Berl "La Fin de la IIIe République", Gallimard Press,
1968, quoted in "The Debacle", Francine Du Plessix Gray; "The American
Scholar", Volume 71, no. 3, Summer 2002.
¹Berl was actually speaking of the French in the aftermath of the
armistice of 1940.....but the message is universal, ainna?