Re: Re: "I've tried it" doesn't instill interest
"J. B. Rainsberger" <[email protected]>
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So said Dale Emery <[email protected]> on 2003-01-09 -------------------- >Hi George and Ron, > >> > > Your responses to these "reverse" situations may help you to >> > > understand: >> > > >> > > "I finally married my girlfriend and it makes life so much >> > > easier." >> > > >> > > "I divorced my wife and it makes life so much easier." >> > >> > Didn't help me. I don't get it. Perhaps you could be more direct? >> >> Didn't help me, either. >> >> Perhaps you're talking about the brevity of the statement as >> reported in my email? If so, then I should say that's an artifact >> of the reporting, not the actual events. > >I'm trying to offer JB an experience of being on the other side of >this kind of interaction. I gave a bunch of possibilities because I'm >hoping that at least one of them will trigger JB to respond >(internally) with something other than wanting to know more. OK. Since that was the point, I'll pick the one about becoming Christian. I don't like formalized religion because it breeds corruption; therefore, I prefer to have a less formal belief system that, not surprisingly, intersects with Jesus' teachings a fair bit. The biggest difference is that I don't read the Bible and I don't believe in heaven and hell. I see part of what my response means in the context of Ron's original question or comment, as I wrote in my other reply. I'm interested to know more about how you analyze my response. To answer your first question, the reason that I didn't respond with "Tell me more" is that, in this particular case, I've been down the road with Christianity before and it wasn't fulfilling. It just seemed like so many more rules. I took the essence of it, adopted what I liked and that's that. Of course, this is only because I looked into all this ten years or so ago. I doubt that the people I have worked with in the past five years saw XP ten years ago. J. B. Rainsberger, President, Diaspar Software Services Let's write software that people understand. http://www.diasparsoftware.com/ telephone: +1 416 791-8603 All correspondence (c) 2002 Diaspar Software Services. If you want to use it, just ask; don't steal. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Flexible Keyboard is the ideal accessory for PDA users that are on the move. http://us.click.yahoo.com/dCBVZC/WnCFAA/xGHJAA/nhFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/