Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul Arnold wrote: (snip) I am hearing words of hate rather than words of friendship, words of wartime propagandists rather than words of forgiveness and oneness. (snip) ======================================================================= Paul, I hear you loud and clear and, if I thought that some of the apparently more outrageous postings were serious, I would agree with you. However (as a relatively new LUGer who has been studying this and other recent emotive threads with some fascination, trying to fathom the nature of the LUG community), it seems to me that almost all of the invective stems from personal animosity, coupled with either accidental or deliberate misconstrual of people's postings. How often do we read comments like, "I never actually said that . . . you are putting words into my mouth . . . go back and read my original posting and you'll see . . ." and so on. We've seen accusations and wild arguments raging about the most trivial and pedantic issues, due, more often than not, to misunderstanding. It's hard for me to believe that the people thus engaged can be really serious and I suspect a lot of it to be deliberate baiting. I personally doubt that there is an ounce of genuine racial or ethnic hatred in the LUG, but some LUGers sure know how to wind each other up . . . or are they just dense? Regards, ===== Ray "The trouble with resisting temptation is you never know when you'll get another chance!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/