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(free) >   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Spoonfeeding the baby          literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org Forum Index -> Dialogues View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Sitaram Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079 Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:02 am    Post subject: Spoonfeeding the baby hiruyfekre : ever time I read Life of Pi I recall your comment about it hiruyfekre : you were right on hiruyfekre : its a wonderful book hiruyfekre : hey you busy or something hiruyfekre : I've got a favor to ask , that may contribute to literature in the end hiruyfekre : In short, I have some things I want to write up and get published. hiruyfekre : truth be said, I don't know much about publishing. will you help? literarydiscussions: oh.... i am a very poor man.... all alone.. and i know no one.... and i could not even begin to know how to help myself hiruyfekre : I'm poor, all alone too, and hey may be i can help. hiruyfekre : whats up? literarydiscussions: I just keep working on my message board.... posting... i am posting something about free will and foreknowledge right now hiruyfekre : I've got intresting insights in that regard. literarydiscussions: i will give you the link.. and you can read what is there so far.... hiruyfekre : Foresight is to Free will, what length is to breadth hiruyfekre : or foresight being the preparation for up and coming occasion, circumstance and event caters to the free willing faculty within consciousness. literarydiscussions: http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic750.php literarydiscussions: yes... but we must be disciplined.... you must read through what is at the link.... and then attempt to integrate your thoughts into that hiruyfekre : frankly i meant to visit your site, fact is it isn't my habit of yet to post on message boards. I enjoy chat a good deal for its instanteous results literarydiscussions: you will see at the bottom of the post.... an analogy of an ant walking on a pavement, which is similar to your thought hiruyfekre : Disciplined, you have well located what i am not hiruyfekre : Ants on the other hand have a reputation for being disciplined literarydiscussions: but... you see.. if one chats for hours... then, it is lost... and only several read it... UNLESS one posts the dialogue hiruyfekre : you are correct hiruyfekre : which is why i seek to be published hiruyfekre : don't you know anyone that can help me hiruyfekre : I have a wide range of writing acumen hiruyfekre : and whats more I do need the hundreds of thousands I can get from it hiruyfekre : i'll share; everyone in my part of the world that knows me, knows, I know how to return a favor. hiruyfekre : i won't pester you about it or anything. hiruyfekre : lets see. what do you like chatting about any way. literarydiscussions: how in the world could i possibly help you when i have so little money, i know no one expcept people in chat rooms, and i cannot even help myself.... literarydiscussions: would you go to a man sitting on the sidewalk with a cup, and ask him to advise you how to become wealthy hiruyfekre : hey i don't care for your money, and the people in chat rooms may be an sset literarydiscussions: what in the world do you think i can do... hiruyfekre : it isn't wealth i need advice about, but connections in publishing. And to answer your question yes I would. literarydiscussions: good grief... you do not even pay any attention to what i tell y ou over and over hiruyfekre : Hey, i don't mean to press the issue, its just on my mind thats all. literarydiscussions: i know zero about publishers.... i have only at my disposal the same google.com search engine that you have literarydiscussions: well.. as they say "which part of the word NO do you not understand".... hiruyfekre : Whats on your mind.You study literature a good deal. literarydiscussions: not "NO I WONT" but "NO I CANT hiruyfekre : Cant! hey..ever read the Critque of Pure Reason? literarydiscussions: and EVERYTHING I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT FOR 8 years of any significance, is in my writings at my links... and you can read methodically literarydiscussions: yes... i read kant somewhat hiruyfekre : whats that like? hiruyfekre : like it literarydiscussions: well... look... in my writings... i speak about kant.... but... the purpose of internet and writing is to "write once read many" hiruyfekre : his Critique of Morals,or Metaphysics i think it was, was a much easier read. hiruyfekre : oh! write once read many, whats that about literarydiscussions: you seem like you are too lazy to use search engine, and read.... it is all there.... you just want to dabble in chat... literarydiscussions: i write it down ONCE... and many people read it... hiruyfekre : that sounds productive literarydiscussions: yes, so... why not read through my writings, if you are so curious... rather than ask me to repeat myself in this chat box hiruyfekre : ok, don't repeat yourself then literarydiscussions: it is all at your fingertips with internet and search engines literarydiscussions: i mean... it is all right there... hiruyfekre : lets make new things happen together literarydiscussions: if two horses are harnessed to a wagon... and one pulls, while the other sits down... then they do not pull the wagon together hiruyfekre : correct literarydiscussions: so,... you, get up, join the forum, read a lot, write your thoughts, and others will reply possibly... that is pulling/doing together hiruyfekre : unharnessing of unnecessary load has meaning in physical,mental, social ways hiruyfekre : I think i get the message by now, about joining forums and posting messages; not to mention the internet approach to reading and writing. literarydiscussions: i searched my forum on KANT, and look at this post... http://literarydiscussions.myfree.../ftopic247.php&highlight=kant hiruyfekre : Your enthusiasm for message boards just might prove contangious hiruyfekre : ok. I live in Addis Ababa. where do you live? hiruyfekre : there are six entries for literarydiscussions and Kant in Google hiruyfekre : do you beleive in blog hiruyfekre : did you have to pay to start up your freeforum literarydiscussions: ur...duh.... freeforum means FREE , so... why would there be a charge hiruyfekre : i mean to start it up, not to join it literarydiscussions: free means FREE literarydiscussions: ANYONE can have a forum... hiruyfekre : But the site, doesn't it cost literarydiscussions: oy vey... literarydiscussions: you keep asking me the same questions over and over and over hiruyfekre : come on literarydiscussions: really... i have to tell you 5 times that i cannot help anyone get published literarydiscussions: i have to tell you five times that free means no charge whatsoever literarydiscussions: how are you going to do great things... and get into kant... when you are slow on these simple things..... i do not mean to be cruel, but... hiruyfekre : no, i was persuading and clarifying and you were explaining. I literarydiscussions: i am only average at what i do,... and my abilities are limited,.... but you are below even my poor level... so you should not waste your time thinking about digging into kant or plato, or freewill, or similar things... since you will only be disappointed.... hiruyfekre : This doesn't sound like the literarydiscussions I know literarydiscussions: i am just being honest.... you should do yourself a favor.... and take my advice seriously literarydiscussions: i am not here to flatter you, or make you feel good about yourself.... nor am i here to flatter anyone else.... literarydiscussions: i am trying to write and accomplish something of value... even a small thing... hiruyfekre : flattery is a disgrace, but discouragment of another's pursuit of knowledge is..what is it? literarydiscussions: you will not be a horse that helps pull the cart... you will be a horse that sits down, and i shall have to pull both the cart and you hiruyfekre : I pull carts literarydiscussions: look.. you have access to the internet, you have time, you have some education, you can read... so nothing in the world stops you from searching on kant, plato, einstein, whatever.... and read read read.... and BUILD A FOUNDATION... and once you build a foundation, you will have things to say and contribute hiruyfekre : I have all three writers on my harddisk hiruyfekre : come on, lets talk about foundations. literarydiscussions: on your hard disk is no help... put them in your brain... and then it will accomplish something hiruyfekre : i'm an unworthy subject for our discussion. literarydiscussions: look.... please... you are free to read everything i have written for 8 years... it is all on internet... hiruyfekre : I get that literarydiscussions: i cannot sit here and spoon feed you like a baby hiruyfekre : I got that already literarydiscussions: with a bib on your neck literarydiscussions: yet, that is basically what you are asking me to do hiruyfekre : how so? literarydiscussions: i spent years trying to write it all down... and you do not want to take the time to read literarydiscussions: you want me to summarize and give you a little pill.... instant knowledge hiruyfekre : So what you're really saying is I 'the baby' need your 8 year work for ' hiruyfekre : "food for thought" literarydiscussions: i dont care frankly whether you read it or not... but do not ask me to repeat all my thoughts in a chat box, when they are all written down hiruyfekre : come on literarydiscussions: that is a colossal foolish waste hiruyfekre : lets let it go literarydiscussions: ok... but... i am being very honest with you hiruyfekre : lets talk about something you know isn't a colossal foolish waste hiruyfekre : you keep being honest about the very same things hiruyfekre : I got your feedback and filed it already hiruyfekre : come on literarydiscussions: look... i have limited time.... you have interrupted my writing on free will, which you do not even want to read..... and what is it that you will contribute or bring to the table... since you have never worked to build a foundation literarydiscussions: you must be able to skillfully quote points from many works and authors, spanning the centuries.... hiruyfekre : Hey I am willing contribute, I ...test me. 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