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To: Tom Trader who wrote (14279)	11/15/1997 12:09:00 AM
From: William H. Ferguson	Read Replies (3) of 50167

Hello Tom Trader Your analyses of IQB's posts --- followed over a considerable period of time --- ring incisively true. It seems to me that IQB is a man of basically good heart and motivation, with a considerable and sophisticated grasp of the global marketplace. But it appears that he has scant subjective insight into the personality traits reflected in the frequent inconsistencies of his market posts. Most human beings are warmed by praise. Most of us find disagreement with our cherished convictions to be highly distasteful. Thus our reactions --- when an objective observer diagnoses accurately the flaws in one's facade --- are, as you noted, more predictable by far than tomorrow's market opening. Was it Bobbie Burns who opined words to the effect that If only God would the gift to ga'e us To see ourselves as others see us! ?? And, yet----suppose that IQBAL posted ONLY the original generative message, and then subsequently was never heard from again. Would the Idea of the Day thread be as pregnant, interesting and populous as we now find it? As Louis Condax, a researching scientist working the in the Kodak Laboratories once said: "Let us agree to disagree without being disagreeable." Cordially William

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