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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Not really.
I don't expect to "get anything out of it". Neither of a poll, nor a thread. In some rare occasions maybe a buying recommendation or help in solving a problem. But normally it's just spending a few minutes while hanging in a conference call. It doesn't have to be a "life changing" experience.
And in my book, that's the very nature of a hobby. Not being about any kind of productivity, but (often enough aimlessly) spend your spare time.
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Why do you persist in assuming that any time someone get something out of something, it must be life-changing?
So for the sake of context, I will repost the post you quoted:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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Originally Posted by mgmueller
What makes you think, I have any kind of "wish"?
I don't have any agenda, nobody is paying me for whatever result.
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You may not have a legal or political agenda, but you certainly seem to desire to vindicate your opinions in your own mind.
self-vindication-of-opinions is a valid agenda in my book.
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Originally Posted by mgmueller
They are. Either way.
You understand, we're in a user forum?
It's not the real world here, nothing to gain. No money, no reputation. It's a hobby. I don't intend to publish or renew my MBA.
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Let me rephrase that.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...any self-conclusions for your own vindication based on it are worthless for your self-vindication...
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That being the use of the conclusions you wished to make. (I assume you must've had some idea of what you were going to get out of this poll, other than finger exercise?) |
Note that you only quoted the last section:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
..I assume you must've had some idea of what you were going to get out of this poll, other than finger exercise?)
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I believe the critical section would be:
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self-vindication-of-opinions is a valid agenda in my book.
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You are more than welcome to misquote me and ignore my points as much as you wish, of course.