26-11-2010, 11:07 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Keith, forgive me for speaking frankly, but I don't think Matthew is malicious. On the EF, at least in my somewhat less than acute memory, his posts were always factual or reasoned and understandable. I often didn't agree with his perspective, but I don't recall him ever engaging in ad homs or similar. And on more than one occasion he pulled me up on factual errors, and I had to apologize for these mistakes.
This, I think, is a good thing. An intelligent discussion requires opposing views intelligently debated. The day we all agree, is the day we give up the ghost of any possibility of advancing civilization.
I can only speak from my personal point of view, but the problem with the discussion in this thread to date was the intrusion of a sly agenda. That and the use of a device of using one poster to conceal other controlling minds behind it, something that is expressly forbidden in the DPF Rules of Engagement numbered 9, 10 & 11.
But hey, the same thing will be tried again and again and again. It's the way our world is configured.
Take care.
David
David,
I hear what you say,and I have to agree that Matthew is always pretty curtious in his posts.I had no need to disparage him.Thanks for the wise words.........
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.â€
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller

