Re: RC: RE: Re: The Winning Debate

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/4/00 4:46:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
msofen@pacbell.net writes:

<< Tom, this isn't battle, it's discourse.  Perfect logic with invalid "facts"
 still yields a flawed argument, and that's where you body slam most people.
 However, you tend do so in a way that stifles the conversation because you
 make often make people wrong (with insults) rather than sticking with the
 facts of the argument.>

If you would like to debate substance, have at it, Mike. Cheap potshots of no 
substance whatsoever debase the Ridecamp coin of the realm. Which is, the 
development of information.  
 
 >I get just as impatient as you do when someone doesn't get it.  The flipside
 is, sometimes, lost in the noise, is a gem of wisdom from an unexpected
 source.  We all lose when that gem stays buried.
 
 Mike Sofen >>

I seldom lose a gem of wisdom in the miasma of emoting that goes on here. 
Guess I'm lucky that I can read. As far as impatience is concerned, that's 
your bag, not mine. I'm not impatient--I'm completely intolerant of bullshit 
wherever and whenever I encounter it. 

ti