[ExI] it's the yoga! was: RE: The Doomsday Clock

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 03:49:24 UTC 2018


On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And most of them have assimilated.  "Leave them alone" would entail
>> forcibly unassimilating them,
>
> What we have here is a failure to communicate. To me, if you're leaving
> someone alone, the last you want to do is force them to do something.

Again, you call for an action - which means more "leaving them alone"
than is presently being done.  The only way to do that is to remove
them.

>> Any change you argue for, starts from the current status quo,
>> regardless of what you mean to say.  Please stay aware of that in the
>> future.
>
> Please don't patronize me.

Please think through what you call for, and how it will sound to
others in the context in which you speak.



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