Sinergy
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Joined: 4/26/2004 Status: offline
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Greetings, quote:
Familarity breeds contempt. I heard that Familiarity breeds attempt... I work in user support dealing with customers all day long. I am required in my professional life to deal with everybody with common courtesy and respect, whether or not I am given reason to do otherwise. I studied with a 9th degree black belt for 17 years. In all that time I never once saw him treat any other human being with anything but respect and courtesy, and I for one modelled that behavior as well. One of my jobs (I work 2 at the moment and I am looking for a third) involves state dependant teaching of self-defense. The states I am professionally required to put the person in to are anger and fear. I do this rather well. So attempting to pick fights and create conflict when I am not at work seems way too much like taking my work home with me. Lastly, I have worked in and around cyberspace since the 1980s, am a published writer, and the quote "think twice, post once" seems to apply to most message boards. Text based posts do not carry with them the 70-90% non-verbal cues which normal conversation does, and they are very easy to take wrong / misread. Flaming a person for what they think tends, in my mind, to reflect very poorly on the person doing the flaming. Sinergy
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"Why am I surrounded by fricking idiots?" Dr. Evil "Every so often you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You cant do that, it is gone, gone forever." J. Danforth Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
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