RE: Keep Subject Headings Consistent In "Threads" Corpus Callosum?

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

Tom Hansen

First, I would like to make it clear that I consider it inappropriate to 
make posts to vision2020 that have NO OTHER CONTENT but to make a personal 
commentary on someone else's personality.  Vision2020 is not moderated, but 
I believe when the posts to vision2020 are only in the nature of commentary 
on someone's personality, like "so and so is brilliant"  or "so and so is an 
ass" or "so and so can't reason his way out of a paper bag" or the comments 
you posted today concerning my post on keeping subject headings consistent, 
it degrades the tone of the list and wastes peoples time.  Your reply to my 
post said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what you thought about the overall 
SUBJECT of the post, which was about keeping subject headings informative 
and relevant to the posts content.

As you well know there are many people fed up with the content lately on 
vision2020, and I can see partly why, when the courtesy to the vision2020 
users of keeping subject headings informative and relevant enough to guess 
what the post contains is often ignored.

My comment about people changing subject headings to avoid others being able 
to easily trace the full argument or exchange of ideas in a discussion on 
vision2020 was meant "tongue-in-cheek" as we say, and I followed it with a 
shrug ("Nah, couldn't be!") declaring, in effect, that I thought this was 
ridiculous.

However, a number of the vision2020 users I have attempted to engage in 
discussion with have often changed the subject heading totally, which at 
minimum makes the days ongoing posts difficult for people to wade through, 
when the discussion from yesterday that someone may or may not want to 
follow is continued with a totally different subject heading the next day.

It perhaps also is an attempt, understandable when people are defending 
vigorously held opinions, to change the terms of the discussion to those 
more favorable to their position, a tactic that is almost universally 
employed in disagreements and debates.  If you control the terms of a 
debate, what questions or issues to address, and eliminate the questions or 
issues that are problematic for your position, you have your debate half won 
from the start.

My comment today about changing subject headings in posts in part was a 
response to a post today that contained a response to a post I had posted 
yesterday, but was under a totally different subject heading, mixed in with 
other issues, and really didn't address the issues I raised anyways.

I expect too much, for man is not the "rational animal" that Aristotle 
declared him to be.  Especially the MEN, so I must include myself in this 
critique.  I really think women have brains that are more reasonable than 
men's, that men are more irrational and impulsive in destructive ways then 
women are.  Something about the corpus callosum, the connective tissue 
between the hemispheres of the brain, which is larger in women (if I 
remember my anatomy), makes them think with more connectivity of emotion and 
logic, than men do.  Just speculation, but who starts most of the wars and 
who runs the religions and governments and militaries that find ways to 
justify the slaughter?  MEN!

Ted

>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>
>Reply-To: <thansen@moscow.com>
>To: "Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>, <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: Keep Subject Headings Consistent In "Threads"
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:47:36 -0700
>
>Greetings Visionaires -
>
>Ted Moffett stated:
>
> > I wonder if this is deliberate decision by some who do want
> > people to easily
> > follow ongoing discussions where fact and logic are presented that 
>refute
> > their point of view.  Nah, couldn't be!
>
>Just because you are pranoid doesn't mean that they aren't after you, Mr.
>MOffett.
>
>As one famous philosopher once stated, "You should never get too involved 
>in
>your own life."
>
>Take care,
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>***********************************
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>Love like you've never been hurt.
>Dance like nobody's watching.
>
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