Well folks ... I have been away for awhile attending a family spat with my favorite group... The Sabian Assembly. But before I get started I want to pass along a comment that I got to help some of you who would like to make comments but have found it difficult to do on Google. I hope that this is helpful and that we can get some comments to discuss back and forth... that might be fun.
When I signed up for google account I seem to have neglected to link it to this site. I went to blogspot home and logged in. Now I can respond!!!
By nutmeg45 on Happy New Year... let's start the New Year Right on 1/12/11
The last week or ten days have been spent in lending my 40 some years experience in solving some problems within our group. And it seems that sometimes when one problem is solved another one is created. The situation brought out something that I had learned many years ago that I called Dick DeGeiso's Law of Social Relativity... or "I get big by making you smaller". This I learned from watching kids play in the schoolyard and the like. They call each other names that refer to some peculiarity of the person to make them feel "smaller" so that the name caller becomes "bigger" in his mind at least. This gives rise to "fatty", "bow-legged", "big nose" and the beat goes on and on. This gets more sophisticated as the combatants get older and more experienced. In fact it is a juvenile form of the tactics sometimes used in debates or arguments known as 'Sophistry'.
To see such tactics used by adults in a discussion is disheartening and is in no way a testimony to their maturity.
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