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To: D. Long who wrote (104515)	7/10/2003 8:50:58 AM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Aristotle: No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Haaaaa! You have GOT to be kidding. Make me an offer. ...Can we nominate a dead guy as designated Thread Moron? <Hoo><Hoo> 0\|0

To: D. Long who wrote (104515)	7/10/2003 10:08:25 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Some people are solitary by nature, but it seems to me that many are gregarious by nature. Looking at the list of thinkers you quoted, all were/are extremely bright, and as we know, we extremely bright people make up a tiny percentage of the population. That's why we invented the Internet, so we could talk to one another. ;^) It may be a Y chromosome thing that I can't understand, but I think that male rage stems from a slightly different place. I was just reading yesterday that scientists and criminals do their best work in their thirties, and it seems to have something to do with impressing women. The reason being that married scientists and married criminals don't seem to try as hard to excel. You don't read about happily married men with rewarding careers going nuts and shooting up the place. Recently I came across a man who worried me. Whenever I am in the law library doing research, I make it a practice of helping out the law librarians when the pro se people come in asking for help. The law librarians can't give legal advice, just show where the books are. I don't give advice, but I do sometimes explain the law if someone appears desperate. I hate despair. Anyway, this older fellow wanted to know how to appeal the eviction procedure he had just lost. He wanted to tell the judge that the foreclosure against him wasn't done right. Well, of course you can't tell a judge at an eviction hearing that the guy who bought the house at the foreclosure sale doesn't have good title. Title from a foreclosure sale is prima facie valid. He needed to challenge the foreclosure, and I couldn't get a straight answer from him as to why he didn't. I showed him how he could buy some time, like maybe six months, but told him he was going to lose eventually. He didn't want to listen to me. Said it was his house and they couldn't take it away from him. I asked him if he was one of those people I was going to see on the TV, resisting forcible eviction with a shotgun, and he just laughed. I didn't want to tell him that I probably could have saved the house via Chapter 13 bankruptcy. That would have been rubbing salt in the wounds. The time for that had long gone.