[Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue 1

Bill Effros bill at effros.com
Sat Jan 7 17:46:19 EST 2006


Looks like a complaint generator to me...and if it's not, it shouldn't 
take more than 15 minutes to knock out all the variables and insert new 
ones.

Bill Effros



Michel Meltzer wrote:

>I can not believe it, I got this letter complaining about Slim :-) see
>below, Some about "customer support"....................
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>-MJM
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>Slim's pronouncements are entirely disgusting -- so much so, that if
>there are any children or sensitive people reading this letter, I
>suggest that they stop now and not read what I am about to describe.
>Here's a quick review: I'd advise Slim to stop being so froward. Sadly,
>lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. He is bad enough
>when he's alone, but Slim is even worse when he's joined by feral
>fussbudgets. Daily, the truth is being impressed upon us that I am not
>up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that it is more
>than a purely historical question to ask, "How did his reign of terror
>start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we
>must ask, "Why doesn't he reveal the truth about himself?" As you ponder
>the answer to that question, consider that if you can make any sense out
>his profligate epithets, then you must have gotten higher marks in
>school than I did. Above all, Slim has no evidence or examples to back
>up his point. 
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>Slim's ramblings can be subtle. They can be so subtle that many people
>never realize they're being influenced by them. That's why we must
>proactively notify humanity that Slim writes a lot of long statements
>that mean practically nothing. What's sneaky is that he constructs those
>statements in such a way that it never occurs to his readers to analyze
>them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that Slim's trucklers
>don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political
>group of people. They're just flat inaniloquent. Something recently
>occurred to me that might occur to Slim, as well, if he would just turn
>down the volume of his voice for a moment: I want to see all of us
>working together to complain about huffy hell-raisers. Yes, this is an
>idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless,
>you should realize that Slim ignores the most basic ground rule of
>debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the
>idea, not the person. As stated earlier, he says that his decisions are
>based on reason. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery! This
>is a free country, and I feel we ought to keep it that way. This raises
>the question: In view of Slim's gormless criticisms, what does it make
>sense for us to do now? The answer should be self-evident, so let me
>just point out that Slim claims that individual worth is defined by
>race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. I respond that there are
>lessons to be learned from history. 
>
>Now, why all this fuss about a few insolent agendas? Simply put, it's
>because it has been said that one difference between Slim's yes-men and
>other dark forces of anarchy and hatred is that the former intend to
>pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm. I, in turn,
>maintain that even when the facts don't fit, Slim sometimes tries to use
>them anyway. He still maintains, for instance, that my bitterness at him
>is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from
>self-induced anguish. I suspect that the best way to overcome
>misunderstanding, prejudice, and hate is by means of reason, common
>sense, clear thinking, and goodwill. Slim, in contrast, believes that
>the sun rises just for him. The conclusion to draw from this conflict of
>views should be obvious: When a mistake is made, the smart thing to do
>is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that
>Slim stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to
>convince me that he says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were
>to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions
>-- even our library records. Why on Earth does he need to monitor our
>library records? You see, he labels anyone he doesn't like as
>"incontinent". That might well be a better description of Slim. 
>
>Slim has, at times, called me "unenlightened" or "insipid". Such
>contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being
>infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to make a mockery of our
>most fundamentally held beliefs. Let me give you an important hint: When
>trying to understand what he is up to, look at what he is doing and what
>he has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the
>hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And
>focus your mind on the fact that those of us who are still sane, those
>of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still
>assert that mankind, with all of its accumulated knowledge, wonderful
>machines, scientific methods, and material power, still has much to fear
>from lecherous trolls like him, have an obligation to do more than just
>observe what he is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to
>upbraid him for being so sadistic. We have an obligation to admonish him
>not seven times, but seventy times seven. And we have an obligation to
>beat him at his own game. 
>
>You don't have to say anything specifically about Slim for him to start
>attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should
>indicate in a rough and approximate way the two depraved tendencies that
>I believe are the main driving force of modern isolationism. I am not
>going to go into too great a detail about deplorable miscreants, but be
>assured that if you think you can escape from his deranged wisecracks,
>then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that Slim's
>desire to conspire with evil is the chief sign that he's a filthy
>menace. (The second sign is that Slim feels obliged to rule with an iron
>fist.) The bottom line is that Slim provides simplistic answers to
>complex problems.
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>>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
>>bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Robert Skinner
>>Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:28 PM
>>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue
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>>Slim,
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>>I know it's a foreign concept for someone lucky enough to be using the
>>relatively stable Apple operating systems, but you did forget to tell
>>him to change his internet parameters and reboot his machine.  Or, for
>>that real outsourced-customer-support feel, you could have advised him
>>to fire up regedit make some changes...
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>>Carry on!
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>>/Bob
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