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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PaperChase who wrote (66209)	8/14/1999 8:18:00 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 132070

MOT [Motorola] closed up 5-1/4 points today. Same day Iridium declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after defaulting on $1.5 billion. MOT owns 18 percent of Iridium, and guaranteed $800 million note. Iridium, provides phone service through a network of 66 satellites. Is supposed to be one of government's Y2K back-up communication systems. They're running up these stocks before the next big decline. Institutional investors will exit and leave "Joe six-pack" holding the bag. [J6P is the term Wall Street uses for the little guys.]

To: PaperChase who wrote (66209)	8/14/1999 8:31:00 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

PC, I'm curious... is it your goal to a) enlighten, or b) merely taunt those with a bearish view of the stock market? If a), then I must point out that your style is not very persuasive. One does not persuade many people by saying "You are full of sh*t, here's what I think..." One must first establish rapport with the listener. Through your approach, you have done the opposite: you have polarized against you those who might otherwise be inclined to listen. This might, of course, be your true goal, b). An occasional taunt of the bears' comical performance in the late 90's is warranted. But you have made this a bit of a crusade. Have you read any other books besides "Out of the Box for Life"? I myself tend not to believe in simplistic concepts such as "ego." In many cases, what we call "insanity" or "neurosis" is just a poorly tuned awareness of the needs, desires, and thoughts of other people. A person who is depressed, for example, might belabor everyone around him/her with sordid, hopeless tales of misery. The problem in many cases is not that these thoughts occur in the depressed (they occur in everyone) but rather that they are not filtered out internally as being untrue - further, they are shared with others, thus further validating them. There may in fact be biological/chemical reasons for why this filtering does not occur. A person who must taunt and bully others is often one who is chronically, painfully aware of his/her status. So, PaperChase, what are you trying to validate with your persistent taunting? Do you want our respect? AA