Posted by dorayme on 10/11/07 22:32

In article <470e609e$1_1@news.bluewin.ch>,
John Hosking <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote:

> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > On 2007-10-10, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> >> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> >>> Nope, he is alone with it now. I have gotten bored with his mantra.
> >> And you never did answer the question.
> >
> > What question was that? The older posts in the thread are no longer
> > on my NNTP server.
>
> Nobody knows. Most reasonable people KFed the participants or the thread
> when it passed 200 posts (in two NGs), and the rest of us just watched,
> mouths agape, the way people stand like idiots during a multi-car pileup
> where bodies and wrecked automobiles lie around in a twisted, gory mess.
>
> The people who were arguing about the question forgot what the question
> was dozens of posts ago, too, which I think is the real reason nobody's
> answered or restated it. Meanwhile, the would-be participants have also
> lost interest. The boiler has cooled; the steam is gone. Nothing left
> but a few still-hot words and some half-hearted name-calling.
>
> All I know anymore is that you are a troll for asking, and I am a troll
> for responding to you. ;-)

Inside everyone is a repressed urge to troll about, the urge very
strong (because very repressed) in those who have led a life of
great focus in an essentially meaningless world. The
contradiction, the godlessness of it all, can finally break the
containing walls...

--
dorayme

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