RE: [Leica] What I did today

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> > Anthony, you're not trying hard enough to get outside your own head
> > and inside those of the people around you.  In their minds, the
> > scenario goes like this:
> >
> > - Photographer takes a picture of little Sarah in the playground.
> >
> > - Photographer keeps an eye on who little Sarah goes home with,
> hears
> > Mummy call her by name, and maybe even finds out where she lives.
> >
> > - Two days later Photographer sees little Sarah on the sidewalk, and
>
> > recognizes her from the pictures he took.
> >
> > - Photographer gets out of his car, and says "Hi, Sarah - remember
> me?
> > I took some wonderful pictures of you in the park on Saturday.   I
> > showed them to your mummy said they're the best pictures anyone ever
>
> > took of you.  Would you like to see them?."  Sarah says "Sure!"
> >
> > - Photographer shows her the wonderful pictures, and shoots her a
> line
> > about how fantastic she looks in them, and how there's a modeling
> > contract she'd be perfect for, and how her mummy wants her to come
> > home right away so they can talk about it and sign the papers.
> >
> > - Sara gets all excited, and climbs into Photographer's car.
> >
> > - Two weeks later she's found.  Most of her, anyway.
>
> Everything except the first event is imaginary.  Does this tell you
> anything?
>
> I can reason similarly:
>
>  - Man parks near me in parking lot.  (fact)
>
>  - I go into store, and man watches from parking lot.  (imagination)
>
>  - Man puts together his portable machine gun.  (imagination)
>
>  - Man cuts me and twenty other people down in a hail of bullets
>    as soon as I leave the store.  (imagination)
>
> As in the your scenario, only the first event is factual.  And, as in
> your
> scenario, the rest is a product of a very vivid and paranoid
> imagination.
>
> > In fact, this scenario is not so fanciful.
>
> In fact, it is.  It is very dramatically so.  How many psychos are
> doing this?
> Compare that with the number of photographers who take pictures of
> people, and
> give me the percentage probability that a person who takes a picture
> of a child
> is a nut.

Well, well...... I'm beginning to like you, Anthony. You're absolutely
right.

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Actually, I'd say that I have never, in either my personal or professional
life, EVER come in contact with anyone as lacking in the ability to
understand and consider what others are saying to him. Truly astounding.