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- From: wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck)
- Subject: Re: for bill overpeck
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.152129.21600@acd4.acd.com>
- Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:21:29 GMT
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- In <1992Sep11.004555.14711@crd.ge.com> keegan@pan.crd.ge.com
- (James G Keegan Jr) writes: >
- garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes: >>
- james g keegan jr <keegan@crd.ge.com> writes: >>>
- #wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>>>
-
- >>>> I read each of them. You seem to be confusing
- >>>> immaturity with mental illness.
- >
- >>> i suspected that you'd say that. it's too bad,
- >>> really, that you don't think therapy might help.
- >>> perhaps you're just doggedly hanging on to a point
- >>> you've already lost.
- >
- >> I think that Overpeck is caught in the "don't
- >> criticize another pro-forcer too strongly" trap. He
- >> seems to think that it's reasonable for Holtsinger
- >> to not expect to have his sources checked, even
- >> though I had given advance notice that I would do
- >> so. He seems to think that it's only a sign of
- >> immaturity when a 21 year old is convinced that he
- >> is a fictional entity (or an inanimate object.)
- >
- > it's a consistent reaction for him, if that's what he's
- > doing now. he did the same thing with djr for a long,
- > long time. from what i read as the tone of his notes, i
- > think he tried to use this particular thread as an
- > extension of an older disagreement. of course, i could
- > be mistaken here. he seems to have jumped on what
- > appeared to be an opening and when that turned out not
- > to be the case, then things got convoluted for him.
-
- My, for someone who's fond of cynically accusing others
- of being "mind-readers", you're awfully willing to engage
- in some serious presumption, yourself.
-
- However, I, in my convolution, am still waiting for a list
- of symptoms to substantiate your diagnostic impressions.
- Absent that, your comments can only be interpreted as an
- attack (and prejudicial toward those who truly suffer from
- mental disorders).
-
- >> Teenage women who want to make decisions for
- >> themselves, on the other hand, are deemed to be in
- >> desperate need of couselling.
- >
- > nice point.
-
- It would be, if I'd ever made such a ludicrous assertion.
- Attributing such a claim to me is disingenuous.
-
- Bill
-