One thing I've learned on FHoP.

LOL

I find it interesting that in some ways we lose certain social skills if we spend too much time on the internet yet we gain others. When we say something in person it is easy to forget or later pretend you didn't say it quite like that. On the net everything is typed and SAVED so if you make an nice person out of yourself it is embedded in time and everyone can see it. I look at old posts on my racing forum from when I was 25 years old and I crack up at how much of an uneducated jerk I was.

Thanks for the props Wildkow, as always we find common ground where one would think there is none.

Cheers!

 

I've learned to stay the heck out of threads in FHoP [scampers out of room].

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Trevor @ Apr 12 2007, 12:06 AM) [snapback]421907[/snapback]</div>

Me too. Except on the rare occasion where the topic may hook me. Congrats, Wildkow, you've done it!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Apr 11 2007, 11:51 PM) [snapback]421896[/snapback]</div>

I think you hit on something very valid - although people can differ in their ideologies - this is a venue where common ground can be reached - there is an advantage of having a continual and virtually perpetual conversation with someone - that time advantage that is offered here allows more time to search for commonality.

David

 

No offense, but I'd like to think that in some small way I'm also responsible; I've urged us to avoid polarity and seek commonality for some time now.

That said, I don't care who gets the credit, as long as it actually continues to happen.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 11 2007, 08:37 PM) [snapback]421891[/snapback]</div>

Don't go too far Wildkow or I'll turn into a Wildkow fan! It's starting already: I hereby retract and render inoperative any disparaging remarks I've made about you and your posts in the past (and apologize for having made them). And that's indelibly welded into cyberspace with a datestamp on it.

Go Wildkow!

Meanwhile, what have I learned? Not much. I know it all already anyway.

(Wipes rotten tomato off face).

OK, OK, I have learned, quite forcefully, that simply putting forth what I think is a 100% ironclad irrefutable argument is only about 2% of what it takes to be persuasive. It isn't the logic that separates us, it's the premises we start from, some of them so deep in our minds we don't even know they're there. If we seek and find common footing on our premises, rather than try to punch holes in logic (which, in and of itself, isn't as faulty as we think), I think we'd find ourselves more in agreement than we thought - and often upon new ground neither of us had thought of before.

Mark Baird
Alameda CA

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Apr 11 2007, 11:51 PM) [snapback]421896[/snapback]</div>

When was that, last year? We've seen your picture, F8L..... :lol:

(Bolding in quote is mine)

 

one thing i've learned? behind the screen name, behind the words, there is always a real person. kow reminds us of this often, and i applaud him for it!

it's too easy to get caught up in the depersonalization of the internet.

 

I've learned that even on the most emotional subjects, people on PriusChat by and large resist the urge to descend into personal attacks.

 

I have learned that pancakes are no where to be found here.


Dang it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ZenCruiser @ Apr 12 2007, 06:21 PM) [snapback]422310[/snapback]</div>

Bah! I'll be 32 next month!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Apr 13 2007, 11:16 AM) [snapback]422623[/snapback]</div>

what day, i am the 28th.

 

In FHOP I've learned, to my surprise, that F8L is 1 year older than me.

I've also learned many little tidbits about many different subjects. Even when I completely disagree with someone, it's nice to learn a thing or two about a subject you feel strongly about. It only makes you counter arguments stronger if you can anticipate what someone will say!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Apr 12 2007, 11:30 PM) [snapback]422373[/snapback]</div>

I have to second that!
But I still want what ever Pinto was drinking before they took the picture.. :lol: B)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Apr 13 2007, 08:26 AM) [snapback]422634[/snapback]</div>

The 17th

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ichabod @ Apr 13 2007, 08:28 AM) [snapback]422639[/snapback]</div>

I had a rough childhood so it's taken me awhile to start my career path. Eventually I'll be where you're at and where the rest of my peers are. Wait, a lot of my peers quit what they were doing to explore careers that make them happy so I guess I just skipped the step where you work hard just to make money. lol

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Apr 13 2007, 11:26 AM) [snapback]422634[/snapback]</div>

Speaking of ages,

The other day I was putting a little brake fluid in the 72 mustang at a local Mobil Station and this 19yr old kid and his g/f pull up next to the car. she goes inside and hes drooling out the window telling me how fine the car was. Then a freind pulled up and walked over while the freind is standing there the 19yr old said IT.....

"Man I hope I will have a nice car like this when I get OLD".... :huh: :mellow: Im 37.....
ok I'll lean back towards the topic...... B)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Apr 13 2007, 07:26 AM) [snapback]422634[/snapback]</div>

The 28th of May? Me too!!

What I've learned on FHoP...? Muffins aren't just for breakfast anymore!