Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Path: news.cinenet.net!out2.nntp.cais.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!news1.radix.net!nac!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!world!mmcirvin From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: New to Kibology! :D Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: <1d65qbx.ea1sxvyk8831N@ppp0a013.std.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 03:09:44 GMT References: <350DECD3.232D@mailexcite.com> <#hWDsOVU9GA.346@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> <350F34C5.2509@mailexcite.com> <35100EEE.242725CE@admin.mc3.edu> <3510CCF6.C0A@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp0a013.std.com Organization: Software Tool & Die, Brookline MA X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 Lines: 21 Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:58139 X-Cache: nntpcache 1.0.6 (see ftp://suburbia.net/pub/nntpcache) Andrea Chen wrote: > You are not alone in this. I have always found that ark > is one of the easiest groups to troll. There's no shame in being trolled. Shame lies in getting apocalyptically angry about being trolled, or believing that you can't be trolled. It's like thinking you are qualified to tell whether Uri Geller is cheating just because you have a physics degree. The stuff that *you* write here is hidden under so many layers of (meta-)^n-trolling that the effort in figuring out whether the number is even or odd is more trouble than the potential embarrassment in just taking it at face value. Which is to say that you have achieved enlightenment and are qualified to hit novices with sticks. Zen Buddhism is my favorite religion because you get hitsies. -- Font-o-Meter! Proportional Monospaced ^ Physics, humor, Stanislaw Lem reviews: http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/