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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
What if the alternative (clarity and painting within the lines?) is?
What if false comparisons obscure the point?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
What if false comparisons obscure the point?
What if "false" comparisons were merely differences in opinion?

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What if I walked with a pronounced limp, and somebody said lamp?

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What if Debbie is right?


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"The people I'm arguing with are usually men, when they have lost they rarely, if ever concede. From the book "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in conversation" Deborah Tannen explains the loss of status that men often feel when it comes to admitting they are wrong, (this explains why they hate to admit they are lost). Even admitting to someone they will never see again, like a gas station attendant, is seen as a status lowering event." ~Google 'false comparisons'/click Spocko's Brain. Thanks.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
What if Debbie is right?


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"The people I'm arguing with are usually men, when they have lost they rarely, if ever concede. From the book "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in conversation" Deborah Tannen explains the loss of status that men often feel when it comes to admitting they are wrong, ...[text shortened]... as a status lowering event." ~Google 'false comparisons'/click Spocko's Brain. Thanks.
You "win".




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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
You "win".




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What if we eventually come to realize this moment might be a non-zero-sum cyberspace

reality in which you, Mikelom, other lurking reader/non-posters and Boston Lad all win?



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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
What if we eventually come to realize this moment might be a non-zero-sum cyberspace

reality in which you, Mikelom, other lurking reader/non-posters and Boston Lad all win?



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What if that's just too cuddly an idea.




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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
What if that's just too cuddly an idea.




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What if we learned to accept reality for what it is (whether coarse sandpaper and pure

strychnine or even warm moments of soft embrace) rather than try manipulating it?



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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
What if we learned to accept reality for what it is (whether coarse sandpaper and pure

strychnine or even warm moments of soft embrace) rather than try manipulating it?



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What if we "took" everything that was said or written as "the gospel". Would we not all be...what...robots? Is it not our nature to question rather than to submit?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
What if we "took" everything that was said or written as "the gospel". Would we not all be...what...robots? Is it not our nature to question rather than to submit?
What if we simply recognize the polarity funcion of volition (free will, choice) and adopt a policy

of yielding right of way and giving a wide berth to those in a state of denial and/or rejection?



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Originally posted by mikelom
What if I walked with a pronounced limp, and somebody said lamp?
What if language goes flabby and limp because some

spent lamp grows dim before gradually flickering out?

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What if people cared?

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Originally posted by Raven69
What if people cared?
😲 😲 That would Shocking!

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Originally posted by Raven69
What if people cared?
You'd be at the wrong website.

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
You'd be at the wrong website.
What if most all interactive websites are essentially the same under the skin, neither right

nor wrong, and the people present are the only effective difference at any point in time?