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marasinghe

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4. as am i.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:04 PM
Mar 2012

cowardly, i mean.


but then, i rationalize & preserve my ego, by reminding myself of The Buddha's words on maintaining a 'Noble Silence', on the appropriate occasions.


altho' -- to go along with Ellisonz & GliderGuider's posts, and having freshly come off a discussion on the im/possibility of the existence of forms of energy travelling @ velocities exceeding the Einsteinian Light-speed limit (viz. the CERN neutrino experiments) -- i find that some rationalists & physicists can be as dogmatic, rigid & inflexible in their opinions, as the members of any other sub-group of the human species; and when backed into a corner, they have the typical human tendency to switch to specialized technical language, in an attempt to intimidate & marginalize the questioner.

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Respectfully... ellisonz Mar 2012 #1
Yes, I tossed in a comment. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #2
I haven't commented YankeyMCC Mar 2012 #3
as am i. marasinghe Mar 2012 #4
And then there are the bullies. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #5
+1000 ellisonz Mar 2012 #6
'.... You're a better man, than I am ....' - Kipling marasinghe Mar 2012 #7
You're a damn good man too... ellisonz Mar 2012 #8
very kind of you. marasinghe Mar 2012 #9
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