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From: Daryl McCullough on 15 Jun 2010 17:16
I'm not going to name any names, but I recently found that I was
arguing the same arguments, in the same way, with the same people,
as I argued 4 or 5 years ago. Clearly, this is a pointless endeavor.
So I have kill-filed the people and the argument threads. This isn't
because of any hostility towards those people, nor because of disgust
with the topics, but just as a self-discipline measure to try to keep
myself from staying in the same rut forever. I don't want to be
like Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill, only to have it
roll back down again.

--
Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

From: MoeBlee on 15 Jun 2010 18:18
On Jun 15, 4:16 pm, stevendaryl3...(a)yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough)
wrote:
> I'm not going to name any names, but I recently found that I was
> arguing the same arguments, in the same way, with the same people,
> as I argued 4 or 5 years ago. Clearly, this is a pointless endeavor.
> So I have kill-filed the people and the argument threads. This isn't
> because of any hostility towards those people, nor because of disgust
> with the topics, but just as a self-discipline measure to try to keep
> myself from staying in the same rut forever. I don't want to be
> like Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill, only to have it
> roll back down again.

I think your decision not to waste your time, energy, talent, and
knowledge is wise. I wish I had your self-discipline (not to mention
your talent and knowledge).

MoeBlee
From: herbzet on 15 Jun 2010 22:59


Daryl McCullough wrote:
>
> I'm not going to name any names, but I recently found that I was
> arguing the same arguments, in the same way, with the same people,
> as I argued 4 or 5 years ago. Clearly, this is a pointless endeavor.

Pellucidly clear.

> So I have kill-filed the people and the argument threads. This isn't
> because of any hostility towards those people, nor because of disgust
> with the topics, but just as a self-discipline measure to try to keep
> myself from staying in the same rut forever. I don't want to be
> like Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill, only to have it
> roll back down again.

Well done, congratulations.

--
hz
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 15 Jun 2010 23:24
stevendaryl3016(a)yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:

> I'm not going to name any names, but I recently found that I was
> arguing the same arguments, in the same way, with the same people,
> as I argued 4 or 5 years ago. Clearly, this is a pointless endeavor.

Clearly. But what's so sad about this?

--
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: MoeBlee on 16 Jun 2010 12:52
On Jun 15, 9:59 pm, herbzet <herb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Pellucidly clear.

Pleonastically redundant.

MoeBlee
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