GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Robert Kern]

On 6/9/10 1:12 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jun 8, 10:09 pm, Robert Kern<robert.k... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> It means that he, very charitably, gives new irritants the benefit of the doubt.
>> By changing identities, you are abusing this good behavior. By connecting your
>> identity to the previous one, his doubt is removed.
>
> And again you miss the very meat and potatoes of my post. Sadly like
> Ben you're so blinded by animosity that you cannot see. He kill-filed
> me because he is so vehemently against me on a personal level.

You can read minds?

> So much
> against me that even the sight of the very words i write send him into
> fits of uncontrollable rage.

And clairvoyance! Such wonders!

> This must be the case or why would he
> need to hide his eyes completely from my words. Could he not just
> exercise a bit of self restraint and skip my posts if they start to
> annoy too much?

Yes, he is. He happens to be using a technological aid in order to do so 
efficiently. You misunderstand the purpose of a kill-file.

> Apparently not. He is unable to control his actions so
> he must go to the extreme of kill-file.
>
> But you know i think it boils down to fear really. He is comfortable
> in his life and wishes to keep it as cookie cutter as he can. Any
> outside influence must be quashed before these meddling forces can
> take hold of him. He is so fearful of seeing the light in an opposing
> argument that blinding himself from reality is easier than facing
> reality.

Ah, so you are a psychoanalyst, too? Amazing!

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco