You got me there...
What I should have said in message 257 (had I been more patient and not caught in this drama) is [...]
You may be close to a self-revelation here, Rob. Before leaving your
faux pas too quickly, consider the full implications of this comment.
You say you were too 'caught in the drama'--too eager to award yourself an unearned last laugh and preachy exit line--to keep track of the comment's
principal idea--even when it was clearly referenced at the top as a theme
you introduced only hours before.
This is an ongoing Rob problem. Too busy playing to those grandstands to focus even on the basics of the topic at hand. More often than not, the topic you abandon is one you raised.
You've created a number of problems for yourself with this pattern. It's one reason you encounter growing lack of enthusiasm for promoting new topics you introduce. You can't frame a debate for toffee, to begin with, because of carelessness with detail. And everyone has learned by now that, as soon as any discussion you start gets at all interesting, you're likely to give up on it and start preaching to the peanut gallery.
Focus. That's what you've been hearing from people. This recent mishap shows what good advice it is.
Difficulty sustaining a conversation in a coherent, functional manner does not make one righteous, humble, persecuted, or any more likely to go to heaven than anyone else. That's just melodrama. What it makes you is a person who needs to pay more attention.
As a great dramatist once put it:
More matter, please, with less art.
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Edited by Archer Opterix, : to the barber's.
Archer
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