Posted by Al; [Aldurant] on November 16, 1999 at 11:37:11 {pRztWiaeukmlvf6PLwvct74NX2uzuA}:
In Reply to: *Tyndale's Rationality posted by Tyndale on November 16, 1999 at 07:31:45:
Check the link. Uh, if you check for responses after you post, then you learn these things.
:I honestly don't know whether she made it up or someone else has duped her. That seems unlikely because she has always seemed to me to be a very intelligent individual. I am sorry as much as anything else that she has been a party to this deception.
So, interpreted, you think "Yes, I think she might have made it up herself"? Whether you "don't know" has know relevance. We do not expect you to know. We would be rather surprised if you did and wonder how. Are you trying to imply that there is some reasonable probability that she did it, without your taking responsibility for having implied it? There is an equal chance that you are the "GB member", or me, for that matter. Such groundless speculation with all the irresponsible aspersions and inuendos is pointless, and endless. Many of us would have made the same decision she did. It would seem to be theoretically relevant to the very purpose of h2o, scam or not. Scams on the internet are no big deal. Any twelve-year-old can do it. We are not impressed. All you have to do is to have no character and betray the trust of others.
I think you know better than to think your statements make sense. Are we to assume that if one is intelligent one cannot be duped? Why? Are we to ignore the fact that she made no claims, attested to nothing, just followed someones anonymous request, giving them the benefit of the doubt as we all must, short of serious hacking/expensive investigating? This is the internet. We are on an anonymous forum. Her delivering a message does not make her "a party" to it, deception or not. But of course you know all this, don't you Carlos? You are not an idiot either. Besides, it was a perfectly good format to discuss some reform concepts, scam or not. I think Ros believed that too. I personally have no interest in reform except for general humanitarian purposes.
Al