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Old Dec 29, 2011, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Perna View Post
Even if they are an implied criticism, it never hurts to answer the questions asked.
At the risk, or the certainty, of hijacking this thread again, I will offer a disagreement here. I found my attempts to answer questions that were not questions to be extremely confusing, since I never got the answers right, or never understood why my answers did no good -- until I figured out that they were, in fact, not questions at all, but expressions of agita on the part of those posing the "questions" -- and agita that the questioners themselves did not realize were agita on their parts. Now that I realize it (I claim), I sidestep trying to "answer" them, and feel much better, more as though I understand what is going on. I have much more insight (again, I claim). Even when hijacking a thread, it makes me feel better to make this point.
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