p_p_man
The 'Euro' European
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- Feb 18, 2001
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Do Lit members sometimes take themselves too seriously?
I watched as the on going war between two members continued. First one would accuse the other then the second would accuse the first. I really have no idea what started it...
and if either one wants to explain it to me, don't bother, I'm not all that interested!
I have just seen a retraction and and an apology on another thread. Again what started it I don't know and I couldn't really care less.
Every day there are angst driven threads not only from young (I presume) members but from the more mature people of the community, who really should be able to sort their own problems out.
I contibute my own threads in a manner of one who likes a good debate but I too tend to think that, at times, my words are waited with bated breath by every one else waiting to see what p_p_man has to say next.
Caught up in the heat of discussion I can be sharp, stupid or just plain wrong. But I also sometimes take myself too seriously here on Lit. Is it the place? The regular active contributors? Or deep down inside do we see Lit as one big, never-ending wall upon which we can write our own version of graffiti, in the hope that what we say will be kept for the benefit of posterity?
Do we take ourselves too seriously because we forget we are all really just a pile of electronic impulses zipping between computers?
Or because we really do think that we have something important to say?
I watched as the on going war between two members continued. First one would accuse the other then the second would accuse the first. I really have no idea what started it...
and if either one wants to explain it to me, don't bother, I'm not all that interested!
I have just seen a retraction and and an apology on another thread. Again what started it I don't know and I couldn't really care less.
Every day there are angst driven threads not only from young (I presume) members but from the more mature people of the community, who really should be able to sort their own problems out.
I contibute my own threads in a manner of one who likes a good debate but I too tend to think that, at times, my words are waited with bated breath by every one else waiting to see what p_p_man has to say next.
Caught up in the heat of discussion I can be sharp, stupid or just plain wrong. But I also sometimes take myself too seriously here on Lit. Is it the place? The regular active contributors? Or deep down inside do we see Lit as one big, never-ending wall upon which we can write our own version of graffiti, in the hope that what we say will be kept for the benefit of posterity?
Do we take ourselves too seriously because we forget we are all really just a pile of electronic impulses zipping between computers?
Or because we really do think that we have something important to say?
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