Pike's ghost

Lee Berman · 30 Nov 2011, 19:54 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:54:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
Message-ID: <SNT123-W2807F83809FB0DB5309892CFB00 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: I'm sure no one creates theories out of a perverse glee 
>for Rube Goldberg constructions.

I agree. At least no one who has been a participant in this forum for
any length of time. Still, accusations of such are a common tactic used
by a certain contingent to express their emotional frustration and/or
perhaps to provoke an emotional response when their initial, more scholarly
attempts at winning an argument fail. 

Let's face it- some people have an inherent philosophy to their social 
interactions in which "Losing Is Not An Option". You don't have to be a
professional wrestler to partake in that view of life.

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