| Chess One 2005-05-24, 8:36 pm |
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"Bobby F" <bobby@prisonlife.com> wrote in message
news:W4Oke.10088$lQ3.5089@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
quote:
> "Goran Tomic" <> And last but not least, I think that scandal with
> Kingston's interview about Kerens and Botvinnik definitely destroyed
> reputation that once good site.
> Any site that would have Kingston as a writer can only be pornographic.
>
Nonsense, such asperity is uncalled for.
- The opposite of one profound truth is not necessarily a lie, but another
profound truth - said Popper the philosopher -
That is only newsgroup blagh, and newsgroups are populated by people who
constantly present themselves in a way which would be preposterous in any
other sphere of human contact.
Taylor Kingston is a very good chess writer, and a decent person finding
himself engaged in a dispute with others, who are no more, no less! To argue
any substantial difference in elevation of one's own status as a person, or
to deprecate another in a general way, is merely to cheat oneself of a
degree of human sharing - a profoundly unhealthy activity [which we all
slyly engage]
No one here is more than an interpreter reporting their own indirect
experience of Keres/Botvinnik [their personal sources, reflections,
writings, musings and anecdotes]. When people state their stuff they really
want witness, rather than either contradiction or affirmation, both [!] of
which can lead to strife.
What is interesting about any conversation which becomes prolonged &
antagonistic, is that we are forced to look at the fact that we are willing
to hate other people, and this is distressing to us - not because we really
care about our antagonists - but because we realise that we are not in
control of ourselves, something is controlling us.
We might all think to love our neighbour, but in emotional fact we hate him,
and our distress is because we don't know how to remedy it. Dimly we realise
that an extension of the very same human process is to talk about world
peace among nations and at the same time bomb other nation's cities.
In other words, beneath our assuredly suave and rational conversations, we
all feel guilty as hell.
What is significant, then, about sharing any information with other people
are the levels of perception, learning and application we have and can
produce, as are the styles with which we go about expressing them.
Le style est l'homme même said Buffon, but the Gæl said, a man's a man for
a' that.
Phil Innes
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