Matronics Email Lists Forum Index Matronics Email Lists
Web Forum Interface to the Matronics Email Lists
 
 Get Email Distribution Too!Get Email Distribution Too!    FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

What I learned today
Goto page Previous  1, 2
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Matronics Email Lists Forum Index -> AeroElectric-List
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
rdunhamtn(at)hotmail.com
Guest





PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:21 pm    Post subject: What I learned today Reply with quote

Eric,

What could you POSSIBLY be thinking???

While you're apologizing to the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, you might just try
apologizing to Bob for inexplicably losing your sense of decorum on the web
group created for and moderated by him!

Something along the lines of "Gee. I don't know what I could have been
thinking when I compared you to the fascist demon that murdered tens of
millions of people and caused the killing of millions more who liberated the
world from his evil grip! Gulp. Brain fart. Gulp. I'm SO ASHAMED. Gulp.
Could you see it in your heart to forgive me?????"

That would be a good start. You might regain some small bit of respect from
the list readers. But then again, fool me once...

What could you POSSIBLY be thinking???
Rodney in Tennessee
Enough of this Bob bashing! Let's get back to 'lectrics guys.

DO NOT ARCHIVE

Quote:
From: "Eric M. Jones" <emjones(at)charter.net>
Reply-To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com
To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: What I learned today
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:32:09 -0700


<emjones(at)charter.net>

The Final Solution:

(Apologies to Rev. Martin Niemoeller)

First they banned the discourteous,
And I didn't speak up because I was a follower.
Then they banned the insubordinate,
And I didn't speak up because I was easily cowed by authority.
Then they came for the passionately contentious,
And I didn't speak up because I was a follower.
Then they came for the independent technological thinkers,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't an independent thinker.
Then they came for me, And by that time no one was left to speak up.

The REAL issue Bob, is that people who disagree are a thousand times more
valuable than those who merely follow--albeit the discussion could be more
civil--and we seek not to confuse the beginner too much. But you and I are
not above being jerks. None of your foils started their interchanges with
you in an intemperate tone. They react to what they consider your
intransigence and arrogance. And it makes them go bonkers.

When I see that you are prepared to fight seemingly innocuous points like
my recent disagreement that "copper is a very active metal" (chapter Cool, I
am nonplussed. You obviosly fight to defend territory. Hell, I just thought
I would do you a favor. Fool me once....

Bob, you are obviously a man of exceptional talents and a lot of people,
including me, and I would guess your difficult list characters, depend on
you and respect you.

But don't look for obedience...some of us just can't do it.

"What the West really has to offer is honesty. Somehow, in the midst of
their horrid history, the best among the Gaijin learned a wonderful lesson.
They learned to distrust themselves, to doubt even what they were taught to
believe or what their egos make them yearn to see. To know that even truth
must be scrutinized, it was a great discovery...."
-- David Brin, "Dr. Pak's Preschool"

--------
Eric M. Jones
www.PerihelionDesign.com
113 Brentwood Drive
Southbridge, MA 01550
(508) 764-2072
emjones(at)charter.net


Read this topic online here:

http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=61584#61584




- The Matronics AeroElectric-List Email Forum -
 

Use the List Feature Navigator to browse the many List utilities available such as the Email Subscriptions page, Archive Search & Download, 7-Day Browse, Chat, FAQ, Photoshare, and much more:

http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?AeroElectric-List
Back to top
sales(at)6440autoparts.co
Guest





PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: What I learned today Reply with quote

Absolutely agree. This has even changed thread names. My fingure
got so tired of delete I finally had to say something but was informed I was
confused about the word banned. Banned is banned ! Yep I am dazed and
confused and getting more delirious. Let's talk plane lectric's. I somehow
wish George was here he would get us lined out. lol

Randy

---


- The Matronics AeroElectric-List Email Forum -
 

Use the List Feature Navigator to browse the many List utilities available such as the Email Subscriptions page, Archive Search & Download, 7-Day Browse, Chat, FAQ, Photoshare, and much more:

http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?AeroElectric-List
Back to top
dcarter11(at)sbcglobal.ne
Guest





PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:58 pm    Post subject: What I learned today Reply with quote

Eric, I'm sorry I read your pseudo-nice knife-in-the-ribs babble before I
remembered to hit "delete". This is really getting old. Why don't you guys
who don't like Bob's ways go somewhere else with your pseudo-morality and
leave us normal folks alone?

David

---


- The Matronics AeroElectric-List Email Forum -
 

Use the List Feature Navigator to browse the many List utilities available such as the Email Subscriptions page, Archive Search & Download, 7-Day Browse, Chat, FAQ, Photoshare, and much more:

http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?AeroElectric-List
Back to top
kayce33(at)earthlink.net
Guest





PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:37 pm    Post subject: What I learned today Reply with quote

Why do we have to go on about who's more right than the other. Please start
your own list and let Bob help the electrically challenged (me ) on his.
No need to keep crowing that my way is better, or I'm smarter or my degree
is better than yours....enough already. I don't care about that. What I'm
looking for is info to glean thru, maybe ask a question. I need all the help
I can getto try and determine the correct corse of action is difficult
enough without havin to sort thru a dicussion about who's way is better. Let
the readers on each list decide for themselves.
Thank You,
Harold Kovac
---


- The Matronics AeroElectric-List Email Forum -
 

Use the List Feature Navigator to browse the many List utilities available such as the Email Subscriptions page, Archive Search & Download, 7-Day Browse, Chat, FAQ, Photoshare, and much more:

http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?AeroElectric-List
Back to top
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Matronics Email Lists Forum Index -> AeroElectric-List All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Goto page Previous  1, 2
Page 2 of 2

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group