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[marcos]

'like dennis miller' - thanks J, i'll try to live up to that - funny, articulate, right-on, and up late at night .... as for 'grammer' [sic] i'll try to type slower for you ... what i find hard to understand in your posts is your philosophy ... perhaps you'd consider thinking more broadly? ... if you'd be so kind to yourself ... tia

Josef - lol - http://pmorris.web.wesleyan.edu/phil255.html

' .... the fact that many people, when criticized or contradicted, become very defensive and even more hardened in their viewpoints. Carnegie states it this way: "Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it"(152), and that "most citizens don’t want to change their minds about their religion or their haircut or communism or their favorite movie star" (126). It is human nature to defend one’s original position. Admitting that one is wrong about something does tremendous damage to one’s ego. It is like acknowledging that one is not as important as one thinks one is. Since people have such a need for a feeling of importance, they seldom easily admit to their own faults, as doing so would bruise their ego.'

You just can't have an ego online ... if you have one that just won't let go, try Preparation H on sandpaper ... if that doesn't work - hide it well, amigo.