Hello MARK!
13 Jul 97 19:02, MARK PROBERT wrote to BOB MOYLAN:
 MP> This IS the real issue. Why is Mr. Godbe posting in her defense?
 MP> Is she incapable of engaging in a dialogue?
You know, there's a certain air of the monothematic I'm detecting.
Some people call it a 'strawman' tactic, and would equate it with a
less than genuine attempt to discuss an issue.
 MP> Bob, do you smell a conspiracy here?
I've already mentioned a certain second propensity of yours toward
paranoid speculation and commentary. Are you truly unaware of it,
simply making ingenuine, specious statements, or are you attempting to
CONFIRM that observed propensity with statements like this?  How sad,
that one single post from a passer-through the echo, and a few
responses from me to YOUR responses brings to you such persistent
feelings of persecution and a fear of conspiracy to you.  It's a big
world, Mark, and as difficult as it may be for you to persuade
yourself to believe, I've other uses for my time than to build a cabal
for your personal disparagement and of all that you hold dear.
 MP> I would love to know what form of "harm's way" Mr. Godbe is
 MP> referring to.
You're persistently asking for me to speculate upon another person's
speculation, and I don't care to indulge you in that.  You'd only
read into it messages other than those which were intended anyway,
if your recent traffic is any indication.  I see no point in such
speculation, but if you want MY opinions, you have to be willing to
read them, not read INTO them to have any idea where I'm coming from.
 MP> Does he mean relevant treatment including psychopharmacology?
 MP> Does he think that that is a harm? Inquiring minds want to know.
Let me also say, that you'd have to be willing to speak TO me also,
ask it of me directly, observe a modicum of polite behavior, speaking
to the person in the room, not 'behind their back' or 'over their head'
as if they were not there.
 MP> I smell scientology, or a Phyllis Schlafley clone.
That's a real problem for you then, Mark, you 'smell'
things which truly aren't there, in this case.
And to make matters worse, you're happier chasing after or swatting
at fears and strawmen of your own creation than you are in having a
rational dialogue without the baggage.  It's like I first suspected,
there are 'allowed' topics, and those which disturb you.  
Steven
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