From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 08:19:35 MDT
>From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>> Nothing you've ever read will give you that understanding
>> anymore than reading everything ever written about women will
>> tell me what it means to be one.
>Ah. Then obviously it's not even worth trying. One can read and
>study one's whole life about soldiers or women or anything that
>one is not, but it's all vanity, right? One can try and gain some
>insight into what motivates people but without the actual
>experience of being that person it's all wasted effort. Like
>posting to this list, it seems.
I wouldn't say it's a wasted effort, on the contrary it's very
important to try and understand others.
Just don't make the mistake of thinking that because you read
everything there is to read you truly understand things.
Brian
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