"Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@online.no> wrote in message
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> I have seen that. He appears to be sufficiently different that
> most presumptions you normally do about people, may not apply.
> The only presumption worth making, I think, is that his mental
> processes are subject to the Laws of Nature like ours and the rest
> of the universe.
Enrique, you are one lucky son of a gun, because I don't see hiim as more
than two sigmas off the norm, and well within the bounds of typical Usenet
wackiness.
> But to Nico, consider it as an experiment, to map the regions where
> normal exchanges are possible, and find the borders of the region
> of deviating behaviors.
Gack. Kind, thoughtful, and in my suspicions doomed to failure. You lack the
leverage, medication, or baseball bat to kick him off the pedestal he's put
himself on. So do I, but I can warn the newbies before he scares them off.
> By "more honest forms" i mean forms where e.g., questions are really
> requests for information we want to take to our hearts, not just
> rethorical means of hitting the other.
>
> When our assumptions answer our questions, we don't need to ask,
> do we?
Except to display for others that we already have the answer. Posturing is a
huge part of why people do things: I like to help out the newbies partly
because I like to help, and partly to show off knowledge that I've gained. I
*love* hearing someone say "oh, that's exactly what I needed, thank you!"
Peter likes to hear himself say he's answered the question when he's given a
factually correct answer that is absolutely useless: "it's in the docs",
"there are umpteen ways to do that", "so go fix it", etc.