On 9/6/11, David Rankin <David@rankinstudio.com> wrote:
Good sound bite eh? I was just speaking at what you were implying. People that don't agree with you are ignorant and lazy.
Let me be the first to stand up and say, "Screw off".
Well then, there it is. Ignorant and lazy overall? I never implied that at all. Only on the matter of refusing to learn something new, in the context of this discussion. When their assumptions are not correct, and they aggressively refuse to examine contrary evidence, or in this case, friendly advice from a 42-year astronomy veteran trying to open doors. Hell, in the case of Joe and I (and Joe knows I mean no harm to him, we've been bandying this back and forth for years) it's become more of a running joke, than anything. I say "learn", he says "I'm too busy", and we both laugh. Go ahead and refute my position,my conclusions, we can argue that and if I'm dead wrong, I'll admit it. But make sure you take it in context and as presented. You're reading a lot into this that just isn't there. Obviously I touched a nerve, David, and if you are offended, I appologize. I don't retract anything I stated, but I do feel badly for not communicating with you effectively in this instance. My failure. Many times in school I was presented with the term "mental laziness" by my teachers, when faced with a task I thought worthless or not pertinent to what turned out to be a larger issue. They were right, I was wrong often, and the term is perfectly appropriate in this instance, when applied broadly and not to an individual, per se. Just delete my posts, unread, in the future. Please.