From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: Apology for insults
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:55:28 GMT

In <30240@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:

>In talk.abortion, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>>In <C19r6E.EAA.1@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:

>>Bense was clever enough to delete the attribution line so that he could
>>better attack me.  Of course, it made it impossible for readers to follow
>>these lines ("the above way" was missing from Bense's follow-up).

>Are you going to gripe forever about inconsequential ramblings being
>deleted from posts?

So, fixing the attribution line to read, in part,

Doug "yer fat black ass" Holtisnger

is inconsequential rambling?

Then what was the point of your little dig about irony being lost on me?
I talked about Susan's fixing the line being illustrative of the depths
of hypocrisy to which she had sunk, and your dig at this was designed
to deflect my flame away from Susan and back at myself.

I took your claim to mean that Susan was doing this all in fun, and that
even clueless newbies should see that she meant it in fun.  But you were
unsure that EVERYONE would agree with you if they saw Susan's slur of
Doug, so you deleted the attribution line.

> Notice that I've yet again deleted these "sage"
>words from this response, as the only thing I want to respond to is
>above, and it requires no previous substance to make my point.

You also think the deletion of Chaney's frontal lobe is a topic which
is insubstantial enough that you can safely poke fun at me for talking
about it.

I take it you have found a higher Hegelian synthesis, to replace
the obsolete category called "truth" [the thesis] and "falsehood"
[the antithesis].  Please share your higher synthesis with the
rest of the people in this newsgroup.  Also the synthesis between
the equally obsolete categories "good" and "evil".

[Apparently pointless pie-throwing by Bense deleted.  Perhaps if fits in with 
his higher synthesis, and I am so deficient in the higher thought that 
I do not see that it is far more relevant to talk.abortion than such
lower categories as abortion, fetal rights, the rights of women to 
bodily autonomy, the question of when the z/e/f becomes sentient,
and other similarly mundane matters.]

>>Note to Gordon Storga: I apologize for a crack I made about you a couple
>>of months ago, comparing you to Bense.  You now seem to be a much better
>>man than he is.

More true now than ever.

>He must be, his list of ex-girlfriends seems to way outnumber my own.

His list is a harmless joke.  Your behavior is an insult to the people in
this newsgroup.  

Gordon is an unabashed atheist.  I respect such a stand, unless there is
some indication that he arrived at his atheism in bad faith.  People like
you, who talk about the priceless irony of making a U-turn to God--which
of the hundred or so levels of irony do *you* perceive when reading the
bumper sticker?--are the sort that I cannot respect, when this kind of 
talk is coupled with the character assassination you post in this
newsgroup.

Peter Nyikos

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