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To: Grainne who wrote (22761)	6/6/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	1 Recommendation Respond to of 108807

Christine: This latest post you sent me creates an excellent opportunity to point out why some people on SI criticize your replies and postings. I am not trying to be mean, just helpful -- and hopeful that you will apply what I say which will improve your posting skills! 1. There is overwhelming evidence that you rarely read someone's post, but instead skim it quickly with responses already hovering at the tips of your fingers. 2. Those posts you do actually read instead of skim, you get details wrong or project your own thoughts into it and then use that as the basis of your response -- in essence, you sometimes change the intent of the person posting you to something else, and then respond to that. At worst it's infuriating. At best, it reveals sloppy thinking on your part. 3. You sometimes make assumptions or (worse) try to tell the other person what he/she actually meant, when what they meant was quite clear. This too can become infuriating. Synopsis: Work on improving these elements and you will become 95% perfect! Example of what I mean from your latest post to me: "Okay, I'm so curious I cannot resist, Terrence. Why is Michael Cummings forwarding posts to you?" You assume it was Mike. IT WAS NOT. Therefore the entire rest of your post is superfluous. "Or did some other rabble rouser do it just to cause trouble?" Here you imply Mike is a rabble rouser (emotionally and negatively charged descriptive term), or the subtle inference which can also be read into it it that I am a "rabble-rouser" as well. If someone had called me that in 1870s Arizona I would've pulled out my six-shooter and emptied hot lead into their chest. "What happened to Michael?" How the hell should I know? Unlike these robot and clacking-parrot christians I am NOT my brother's keeper. "Did a bunch of hippie tree huggers capture him and tie him up somewhere? Are they starving him to death slowly by feeding him school lunches only?" Christine, this is cruel humor at Mike's expense when he is not even here to defend himself. I'm surprised at you!! I think you're picking up Father Terrence's (excellent) habits. "Are you in some sort of conspiracy with him?" Yes, with my black helicopter we are going to infect all the corn crops in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa with corn blight. We have been buying up corn futures on the CBOT and stand to make $100s of millions. When we do I will buy SI and offer valuable prizes for those that use their brain to think instead of abrogating their intellects to the bible, koran, socialist dribble, Immanuel Kant, Nietszche, etc. Father Terrence