Re: R.I.P. Robert L. Bass

[Frank Kurz <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/10/2010 6:01 PM, Jim wrote:
> On Oct 2, 7:52 pm, JoeRaisin<joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On 10/2/2010 2:27 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> mleuck<m.le...@xxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't think you started the thread to cause turmoil however you
>>>> can't be so naive after all these years to think where it would end up
>>
>>> I definitely considered that.  But I also cross-posted to CHA.  I thought it was
>>> relevant and people would want to know.  I don't regret starting the thread, but
>>> I sure don't think I should be lambasted for doing so.
>>
>>> All my replies lately have been confined to this NG.
>>
>> Best to just let it go, Graham.  I know I appreciated the notification.
>>
>> I then got sidetracked by the fun of baiting Petey, and Jim was just
>> pointing out (I think) the counter-productivity of trying to get him to
>> understand the point I had made (which he seems amusingly incapable of).
>>
>> When you first posted I knew there was going to be a negative remark or
>> two.  If folks like me hadn't chimed in, Petey would have made his snide
>> remarks and been done with it.
>>
>> That's the way I took it, anyway.  Jim made me see that it was neither
>> the time nor thread for that sort of hi-jinks so I stopped responding.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>
> I wasn't trying to chastise anyone. Just stating what I saw to be ....
> obvious .... to me, that is. It didn't make any difference who brought
> up the subject, due to past experience there's not a soul in this
> group that couldn't know what was going to happen.
>
> And yet the thread STILL lingers on .... and on .... and on.
>
> The other shoe has dropped. No need to listen, argue, anticipate,
> debate, squabble or speculate any longer. There's nothing that anyone
> can say that will make anything change for the better or worse. What's
> done is done. If anyone has any regrets or no regrets whatsoever, is
> of no consequence. Any recriminations between those of us who remain
> for how one feels about all of this, is useless. I don't know who it
> was earlier,  that was saying it ... but it was something about making
> an apology is something that is done more for the sake of the offender
> than the one who was the recipient of the offense. If that is true
> then ..... it's got to apply in this matter too. If you're comfortable
> with yourself , it's the same thing and it is all that matters.
> Disagreeing with someone about how they feel, defending how you feel
> or trying to convince someone that they shouldn't feel a certain way,
> is less than useless.


Well said, my friend!

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Frank Kurz
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