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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: one_less who wrote (88231)11/8/2004 5:26:47 PM
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I have to disagree with you on at least part of your conclusions. I agree that X has demonstrated her intelligence. She has demonstrated her ability to raise the bar by taking fractal positions regarding conventional wisdom....

...However, many people have posed sound arguments to X’s positions on topics. When this happens she becomes dismissive and places challengers on ignore. While she continues to argue. She has made it clear on several occasions that she isn’t interested in discussing the provocative positions with people who would argue from a different perspective. How is this out thinking or out arguing? The dismissiveness, represents a loss to me, on her part. It also leaves the participants with a feeling of unfinished business. This, IMO, is an intentional coquettish ploy by X. Normal people naturally want to attend to unfinished business in an effort to seek resolution. I don’t see anything particularly intelligent about that. In fact, it seems a bit like a personality disorder.

I haven't perceived this "ploy," as you call it. It's true that I haven't paid close attention. If it's as you say, I'm familiar with that phenomenon from being banned from P4P for arguing a position he doesn't like and responding to replies.

I have no idea what LindyBill is posting, though. I haven't looked at his thread or his profile since its nature, and his, became clear to me. He can therefore be neither under the impression nor the misimpression that I'm obsessed with him or stalking his boring ass.

What's a fractal position?
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