[Rhodes22-list] Civility - Warning - May require thought...

[elle]

What a picture this brings to mind!

A Monty Python moment....

elle

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Wed, 7/23/08, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

> From: KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Civility - Warning - May require thought...
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 9:40 AM
> Brad,
> 
> "...the following logical conclusion, "run the
> hell out of this place."
> 
> All serious students of self-defense know that the Nike
> form of martial
> arts is the most effective.
> 
> Even the Army had me spend several thousand hours of
> running for every
> one hour on the firing range.
> 
> Lee 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brad haslett [mailto:flybrad at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:35 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Civility - Warning - May
> require thought...
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Ah yes!  The civilization of the pool cue!  Got to witness
> that first
> hand in a contractors bar in Gulfport, MS about 18 months
> ago (they call
> them "con" tractors not "good" tractors
> for a reason).  My involvement
> in the ordeal was to hurriedly escort the "pool
> cuelee", a young man
> who'd just had a pool cue broken over his head out the
> door. My concern
> wasn't so much for him as it was I felt too busy to be
> a witness in a
> murder trial.  The "cuelor" immediately took
> offense to my actions and
> targeted me next (with the stub).  Fortunately, I've
> been through post
> 9/11 Cockpit Defense training and leaned on all my
> resources learned in
> the classroom and hand-to-hand fighting to come to the
> following logical
> conclusion, "run the hell out of this place!"
> 
> JB made a salient point - the implication was that the
> people who post
> here most often know each other well, sometimes in the
> flesh, but in
> many cases only in cyberspace. Either way, they don't
> take each other
> too seriously or if they do, it's forgotten the next
> day.
> 
> I guess the question is, do we want a big Italian or Greek
> family who
> sits down for supper and has an energetic family discussion
> or an
> uptight anal-retentive Waspish get-to-gather?
> 
> See!  You can't win at this game.  I've pissed off
> Italians, Greeks, and
> many of those other people without even trying.
> 
> How 'bout you write the 'Roberts Rules of Orders
> for da List' and we'll
> all fall in line.  You're one of the most sane and
> rational ones here
> anyway, we could probably use a benevolent dictator.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Robert Skinner
> <Robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Robert Skinner <Robert at squirrelhaven.com>
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Civility - Warning - May
> require thought...
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:53 PM
> > While we speak of this list being the equivalent of
> > discourse
> > in a sailor's bar, we may be forgetting that those
> who
> > visit
> > such a bar are generally less inclined to give insult
> than
> > some
> > on this list.  In a bar, feedback is sometimes
> immediate
> > and
> > direct non-verbal behavior modification.  With a pool
> cue.
> > 
> > Learned by observation in Jacksonville, NC and other
> > places around the globe and anchorages.
> > 
> > Talk is cheap when there is no civilizing feedback. 
> Doubly
> > so when the neck is not exposed.  One reason for
> > society's
> > general prohibition of discussion of sex, religion, or
> > politics
> > at the dinner table is the tendency of people to
> become
> > heated, if not completely irrational, concerning these
> > these
> > topics.
> > 
> > When we permit the discussion of these topics, we also
> > admit the polarizing and antagonizing effects thereof,
> and
> > need to exercise some restraints.
> > 
> > As Archie admonished, we might have to say to some,
> > "Stifle yourselves!"  Freedom has a price,
> and
> > the price
> > of free speech is civility.
> > 
> > Thank you for considering this,
> > /Robert
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