Over the next month or so I want to try an experiment in communications with you all, based on a conversation I had the other day. I will let you know how it turns out.
Maybe this is it? He's testing and probing us to see what we do amongst ourselves - surviving on this teeny bit of information... making us wait... wonder... anticipate!
I bet he's going to start playing bizarro-Richard, and start espousing ideas like government can help the poor have better lives, and we must try to understand our muslim brothers, thinking that we will argue against him and thus come around to his true beliefs.
He's just waiting to see how long it will take a thread with absolutely no subject to turn into a shouting match over_____________ (insert your cause here).
If that is the reason, I find it interesting and funny-haha.
He's just waiting to see how long it will take a thread with absolutely no subject to turn into a shouting match over_____________ (insert your cause here).
Yep - that's a bingo Much ado about nothing Until subject's clear
Curious how quickly most everyone posted something negative rather than embracing the opportunity for positive constructive discussion and understanding. Not that understanding means you agree with a persons situation or viewpoint, but at least give them an open ear and the time to present their view.
Curious how quickly most everyone posted something negative rather than embracing the opportunity for positive constructive discussion and understanding. Not that understanding means you agree with a persons situation or viewpoint, but at least give them an open ear and the time to present their view.
Perhaps that's the point Of Richard's experiment Might I be correct?
Thank you for your prompt reply. I did say SOME, not all, and I did not specifically mention any particular names or posts.
Perhaps we're all part of Richard's great experiment now and will be figured into some spreadsheet and factored onto a graph that will be presented to a large body of otherwise unknowing and uninformed persons in an effort to sway their decision on the future pending vote for a matter of great importance. Or maybe it's all just a bunch of baloney.
You have quite a fan club Mr. Bonine I don't think anyone else except maybe Rick could have gotten 22 replies in a few hours to a 2 sentence post like that.
Buck, you've fallen victim to his insidiousness. That's EXACTLY what he'd want you to say.
Then, he'd want me to type exactly what I just typed but would KNOW that I'd think twice about it. However, I'm doing a double-twist reversal and typing it anyway because it's exactly what he wouldn't expect of anyone who was about to do exactly what he expected.
/tapping finger on side of nose and nodding knowingly/
A little self serving Richard? You were going to win no matter what happened, being you were the only one that knew the rules. Froid did these same experiments many years ago, and got the same results. The results are what you want them to be, when you, and only you know how to play the game.
A while back someone suggested that I needed to work on being more compassionate. They suggested that one way to accomplish that objective was to modify my communications by asking most things as a question rather than making a declarative statement. I tried. I don't think it worked very well. There is a hole in my tongue from biting it all the time and I have been miserable not being who I really am.
One observation I would make is that most of you regular posters read right on past all of the punctuation marks. Several times people responded to something I said as though I was declarative rather than interrogative.
A while back someone suggested that I needed to work on being more compassionate. They suggested that one way to accomplish that objective was to modify my communications by asking most things as a question rather than making a declarative statement. I tried. I don't think it worked very well. There is a hole in my tongue from biting it all the time and I have been miserable not being who I really am.
One observation I would make is that most of you regular posters read right on past all of the punctuation marks. Several times people responded to something I said as though I was declarative rather than interrogative.
Now you know.
Richard - are you talking about your experiment or someone else's experiment for which you're taking all the credit?
It's funny that you'd mention punctuation marks when you're so loath to use things like quotation marks when you cite sources. Oh, wait ... you don't cite sources. My bad.