Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I read your post several times in an effort to derive some sense of it and came to the conclusions which I expressed in my reply. Your comment on voting completely misses the point. First of all, voting has more to do with choosing than with judging. While it could truly be said that in order to choose someone you must first make a kind of judgement, this is not the kind of judgement that was in view in my remarks. The kind of judgement I was referring to is the kind which is inevitably followed by condemnation and recrimination. This, I hope you'll agree, is something that need not be (although I agree it is) part of the electoral process. What does it have to do with Leica? As I've said, the Leica (or any other camera for that matter) is a tool for expression, as is the internet. What good is a great tool if you have nothing to express or (worse) lack the insight or knowledge to express it well. If that's the case you're left with nothing to talk about but the physical characteristics of your tool. I hope you get my drift. BS - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Glory and Improper Posting >At 07:37 PM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote: > >>Thank you for your opinions, poorly expressed and pointless though they >>were. I would just ask you to bear a few things in mind. >> >>First of all, our dear leader has yet to be found guilty of any of the >>charges against him except in the court of public opinion. Secondly, there > >If you would read my post more carefully, and see which part I was writing >and what part someone else is writing (clue, two arrows) then you would see >I was addressing the issue of pornography, and the mistaken notion that >"puritanical" people are some sort of monolith who think alike. Bill >Clinton had nothing to do with that in particular. > >Your evangelical sermon on hell and damnation (and judgement) are well >taken, except that it's naive. Why? Because we all judge many people in our >lives (it's called voting!), and measure the character of others for >various reasons. And to say we don't, or shouldn't is just plain silly. I >can twist the scriptures to say whatever I want as well. What does that >have to do with Leica? > >Leicas are the best. That's a judgement. > > > > > >========== > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >I used to have a handle on life, then it broke >