[blml] Chutzpah - was Law 1 - mephitic order (was DeWael...) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Herman De Wael]

Grattan Endicott wrote:
> Grattan Endicott
> grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
> [also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
> **********************
> " Words are but the signs of ideas;
> I wish, however, that the instrument 
> might be less apt to decay, and that 
> signs might be permanent like the 
> things they denote. " 
>                       (Samuel Johnson)                   
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <richard.hills at immi.gov.au>
> To: <blml at rtflb.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [blml] Law 1 - mephitic order 
> (was DeWael...) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
> 
> 
>> Definition of chutzpah:
>>
>> "A person who has murdered both parents 
>> pleads for leniency from the judge on the 
>> grounds of being an orphan."
>>
> +=+ The sadness is that the whole is tainted by
> the rottenness of a percentage of the ingredients.
> Blml allows of an infinite variety of opinion. This 
> is good. But when a long-winded contributor makes 
> repetitive assertions as to the Laws of the game, not 
> as opinions of what is desirable but rather professing 
> an interpretation of Law at variance with the proper -
> authorized - interpretation, the value and credibilty of 
> the whole discussion becomes diminished, corrupted, 
> noisome. People  turn aside from the stench, not 
> persevering with research of the wholesome parts 
> for what golden truths and pearls of wisdom may lie 
> there. 
>                                            ~ G ~   +=+
> 

Indeed, if people, who should be the treasurers of those pearls, call 
the perseverers of other ideas "stench", instead of investigating, and 
maybe discovering golden truths, then the majority will continue to 
believe stench where maybe pearls of wisdom might be found.

-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
http://www.hdw.be