On Oct 10, 10:33 am, Aspersieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:11:07 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 7:03 am, Um Jammer NATTY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Oct 10, 5:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > It's very simple. You need to know the world is much more than the > >> > imaginery life you are looking. Spend some time in the feet of the > >> > Lord Jesus who would help you to come out of this trouble. > > >> Does anyone else find it amusing that this poster assumes 'imaginary' > >> and the Lord Jesus are polar opposites??? > > > I'm guessing...only you! > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Nope, not only him. > > On another note, why is this a discussion on c.l.p? Shouldn't we > discourage these kinds of posts?
*Lol* to "calling the base class constructor" - Reacher. But I actually have a second to treat this. First, no the poster did not assume the two referents were 'polar opposites' per se (smacks of rhetoric), even to the extent that individuals and relations to reality can be. In other words, neither Sherlock Holmes nor George Bush are opposites of imaginary. No it would not be exactly amusing if he did. It is not clear from his post that he had thought through his advice logically, or that it would help, unless so by definition: "Do something that would help you." If the latter (analytically true), then no it should not be discouraged, a kind shoulder is nice to cry on, even if its owner merely says, "there, there" or "best of luck". If the former (not thought through), then no, he apparently means well. Someone (apparently) asked for help and he shouldn't be turned away, even if the primary purpose of a gathering is academic and unrelated. What was the exact content of his advice, what are its intended effects, and what are the actual effects, to the extent they're different? Neither the original post nor the replies were contrary to the group's goal, I didn't find. People are people and humor is good in small quantities. Furthermore, I have wondered what some of the external beliefs and habits of the readers are, as they never show up otherwise, and if only to know a little better who I'm talking to... and hearing from! Obviously the essays go somewhere else, in the vein of 'wrong time wrong place', but a simple +1 quitting, +1 free expression, -1 addiction from a few, or whatever the beliefs they have are, would be appropriate; so I hold. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
