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To: epicure who wrote (180)	3/7/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Intrepid1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1614

hi everyone, this is my first to Silicon investor. this was the busiest topic so i go by here first. anybody got good stock tips! purething

To: epicure who wrote (180)	3/7/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: username	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1614

Hiya X ! ! Hey, thanks for the update. I find this to be astounding. OK, I'm gonna say my thing here and I'll be done with it. I said something already, in post 133 on the Boink thread, but I'll try again in a different way. I went back and read all those posts, and a bunch of others as well. I even searched for the word "evil" and found some interesting stuff. Lots of people communicating about their beliefs and viewpoints and so on. I see these posts break down into pretty distinct categories. Almost all of them are people, lots of different people, who are doing the best they can to learn and interact. I have a buddy that calls it, "climbing their own mountain." That's a good thing. It can be the source of friction at times, and I've been on both ends of a private "Hey, if I offended you, I apologize" message. That's a good thing too. A few (a few) are people who are consciously intending to make someone else feel worse. These people seem pretty easy for me to spot. I dismiss them utterly! I assume they have no power outside their own minds, and I refuse to conduct social discourse with them. They certainly have no power at all over me. This is why I do not watch the "news" on TV or read the tripe that is called "news" in the newspapers. The annoying thing to me is to see people that I know and like be sucked into the web of these few people and get pulled down to a level where they feel they must interact with them on the Internet. It is a losing battle, in my humble opinion. It's an evil game, and I personally just choose not to play. I don't need to get upset about this stuff, because I just don't play that game. Let me, if I may, share the definition of a word. This comes from the Century Cyclopedia, which is a 10 volume dictionary that was published in the late 19th century and the early 20th. I have the definition memorized. If you think the word "power" has to do with force, you have a late 20th century definition. Here's what it really means: "Power: in general, such an absence of external restriction and limitation that it depends only upon the inward determination of the subject whether or not it will act." [The bad news folks can't touch me. It's a swell place to be. Let's move out. Zombie 3, over.]