Posted by r. a. on September 04, 2003 at 00:42:54:
In Reply to: Re: Becoming a professional posted by Proctor on September 04, 2003 at 00:32:13:
To the contrary, I'm quite sure that Curious Parent found this thread amusing, if not facinating and enlightening. There's no "winner" in a discussion, unless one of the participants dismisses the other's views forthwith simply to self-reinforce.
You know, when you dismiss others' thoughts as "babble" simple because you don't view things the same way, you are closing yourself off to possible enlightenment when someone with possibly more experience and insight (who might be pushing one side of a discussion for a purposeful effect) happens to not be "babbling".
Curiously, some "babblings" that occurred within this person's thought processes approximately a quarter of a century ago had a profound effect on the webmaster, Proctor, and Proctor's mentor as well.