Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, That's a cheap line. If 'all this energy' was expended on making photos, we'd create something totally different, pictures. Learn something, maybe, but unlikely. You're talking about the people who took time to make these posts, they're all competent experienced photographers with little left to learn either technically or experientially. The rest of us readers would learn nothing. I take Mike, Ted's and Marc's posts (I believe) in the vein they were offered - that of a rigorous debate. Ted wanted to assure Mike that it wasn't neccesary to 'win' any argument and Marc pointed out that recording of history (in our mids) is at stake. I've learn't more from Marc's explanation (with the possible exception of remembering who's cricket shoes Dr Grace was going to endorse) than I could have envisaged, certainly more than I would have done if I'd been taking photos instead. best regards, Jem - -----Original Message----- From: Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) [SMTP:peterk@lucent.com] Gosh...If all this energy went into taking photographs.....we'd actually learn something. - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] At 02:08 PM 11/19/1999 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >Before you subject yourself to embarrassment and mental harassment save >your breathe my friend. It's a complete non issue, as the guy is dead and >who cares as it was yesterday, last year, the past decade and beyond! No, it is NOT a "non-issue". The saga of how we got where we are today is vitally important to understanding our present position. On any issue, at any time. "Those who ignore the lessons of the past are bound to repeat the mistakes", or however it goes. (big snip) History is important. Ted, you have LIVED history, and you should know this, more than most of us. Marc