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Hi OM!
It's so hard in an email to "sound" a reasonable tone... every word is taken
so literally! Plus you cannot see the expression on my face... but I'll
try...
I "think", I may be wrong here, but I believe I had a discussion in a
similar vein with a Sysop once (on another board) a while back, in which he
took a couple of us to task for a "slight" bending of the non-offensive
language rule...
The problem was not in the message he delivered, but how it was delivered.
He treated us like children, not like grown men with our own children and
grandchildren, and THAT is what was inflamatory, and indeed insulting.
In the case of Omega, IMHO, I do not think that there are a bunch of
unbelievable "numnuts" pervading this group. If that is true, then why does
anybody else waste their time here... to pick on Newbies? Haven't you ever
been a newbie? Have you ever felt the "sting" of a cliquey group judging you
just because you don't ask the proper questions with the correct
assumptions? I certainly have no problem admitting to that!
Now, strictly in that context, I think that any company that offers
"support" can deliver the message in many ways, sometimes with
understanding, sometimes with arrogance.
People on this board can deliver a message with empathy, or with arrogance.
Just like in advertising, it is the way the message is delivered that
counts, sometimes more than what is said.
In that regard, I believe that both Omega, and sometimes I must say some
people on this list (notice I'm NOT referring to you necessarily, that would
be "arrogant"), rather than take the high road, choose a different path, for
many different reasons, but they end up in the same place, and it is simply
not as productive as it could be.
Nuff said!
Best regards,
Gene Pope
----- Original Message -----
From: <the_omega_man@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Limit order works correctly in TS2K
>
> Perhaps it is time to clarify what it is that I support and what it is
that
> I'm against. I do not support "Omega", except insofar as the battle
between
> Omega and its detrators illustrates certain principles... I shill for no
> specific entity. Rather, I defend and advance certain ideas...
>
> What's at stake in the battle between Omega and its detractors is nothing
> less than life itself. It is the battle between what sustenance and
improvement
> of life requires (the constant, consistent application of one's own mind)
> and what leads to death (the abdication of one's own mind and one's own
> efforts - and substitution of reliance of the efforts of others in its
place).
>
> So I decry those who, throwing themselves at Omega's feet, howl that Omega
> "owes" them something, or whine that Omega has not done what it should to
> support their lives. Such action turns the maintenance of one's life over
> to another... Consistently applied, this action will lead to death.
>
> I support all action of the independent mind producing what it needs to
> survive and thrive (whether that action is undertaken by Omega or by
someone
> else who creates things which sustain and improve life).
>
> Do you see the fundamental difference between the creator, the builder,
> on the one hand, and the complainer, the beggar, the moocher on the other?
>
> The Omega Man stands with those who use their own minds to create and
produce
> value, sustaining and improving life. The Omega Man stands against all
> those who turn their own productive need over to another, and howl when
> that other does not supply them.
>
> BUILD, you sons-of-bitches, BUILD! Forget what others do or fail to do.
> Get off your ass and make your own way in this life!
>
>
> The Omega Man
>
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