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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (58916)	10/13/1999 9:01:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The truth is often unattractive. And upon hearing it, some weak minded individuals are prone to characterize it as vulgar, ill mannered and crude. Nevertheless, it is the truth. Unless the terms of argument have changed, we were arguing over whether historians of the future will remember Reagan as a great president. If this is the case, it is ridiculous to announce that your opinions are "the truth". The only truth here is that none of us know what the next generation of historians will think. We can state our opinions, we can support our opinions with various citations, we can argue and scream and curse each other, but for any of us to claim possession of "the truth" on this score is pretentious indeed. Unless you're Nostradamus, if you believe in that stuff. Vulgarity, ill manners, and crudity contribute nothing to truth, and not much to anything else. If anything, they convince observers that those who wield them are small of mind and spirit and not worth listening to. Style helps.