Posted by so on June 12, 2005, at 19:22:36
In reply to Re: How to build a Zen » so, posted by JenStar on June 12, 2005, at 19:12:32
> Try your proposed governmental post & see what happens. There's one easy way to find out!
If I were to learn that some people are allowed to make certain statements about government policies but that I am not allowed to make identical statements, or to make similar statements to the contrary about the same policies, it could have a detremental effect both on my mental health and on my ability to provide support and information at this forum.
> As to your earlier question about how to use sharp wit, consider your point and your sarcasm well taken, although I personally am not certain whether you were just trying to be funny & clever or whether you were trying to make fun of the person who wrote <snort.>
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> Can you clarify which it was?It could be neither of the alternatives you present, but more likely a product of the articulate manner you described in which I try to avoid all appearance of or implication of impropriety while still holding open the capacity to understand other writing as witty if that is how it was intended. It was an effort to present a lack of clear understanding of the meaning and especially a failure to recognize which side of a debate was the object of apparently colloquial writing you describe as humor.
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