"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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"Massive Head Wound Harry" wrote in message
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How can people enjoy music with so much bitterness in their hearts
toward
other people? Doesn't the music you're hobby presumeably allows you to
enjoy
afford any pleasure or do you listen to 'Death Metal' all day?

I don't behave, or feel, toward other people in the manner that might be
imagined from my treatment of Arny the Ogre or Mikey the Bug Eater. Brian
L.
McCarty is a different issue; he is a genuinely malevolent person who
deserves all the abuse he receives.

There seems to be an unwritten understanding that this is a "place"
unfettered by normal decorum. When I originally stumbled upon this group,
I
had a desire to change that. After further consideration of the maxim
which
ends "and God grant me the wisdom to know the difference", I concluded
that
there was no moral issue, because the participants are here with the
understanding given by the common maxim, "If you want to give it, you have
to take it."

One just has to remember not to take the mock bitterness back into one's
"real life." Friends are precious.



You touch on my point and i am not going to be saying anything furthur
on the subjcet when you quote the final maxim. Why "want to give" in the
first place? I'm not here to hold anyone accountable , just observing and
wondering outloud.I had thought the technical/mathematical nature of audio
was something from which personal rivalries and even the appearance of
hostile bitterness would slide off like capacitor oil off teflon cable
covering since when dealing with data specs and the like there wouldn't seem
to be any room for arguments the numbers speaking for themselves.