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This forum thread is intended as a repository for michael norton’s comments that might otherwise litter topical threads.
michael norton, your commenting style is too divergent and disruptive for integration with other commenters’ discussions. From this point on, you will only be permitted to post your contributions here; any comments you submit to other threads will not appear. The conditions notified to you previously still apply.
An alternative title could be “michael norton’s last chance saloon”. If any further moderator intervention is required to deal with your musings, then the result is likely to be a permanent exclusion.
Hello Moderator, would you be willing to share your thinking process with us, I would be appreciative.
I have many friends, quite a lot of them have doctorates. My own daughter is a doctor.
I discuss many topics with them, all the time. Some times we come to the same conclusion.
This theme you have running here would seem to be aimed at shutting down thought.
perhaps I am mistaken?Michael: “This theme you have running here would seem to be aimed at shutting down thought…”
I’ve been trying to get you to think for months. Maybe you do, but there’s precious little sign of it in your replies; you just change the subject every time, which seems deliberately evasive.
I’ll try yet again though. Did you know of the potential impending north European “ice age”? I think that’s the fourth time I’ve asked you that; I’ve lost count.
“My own daughter is a doctor.”
I suspect, if you asked in earnest, what is the essence of medicine, she’d reply to take a thorough history, perform a competent examination and base your next steps on those two things.
Do you perform those steps Michael?MN: By ‘discuss’, do you mean tossing in disjointed items vaguely associated with the subject a hand, picked from some sources with an obvious agenda?
Or do you mean doing a back and forth on one topic, taking into consideration the last thing said – actually addressing what the other has given in reply, responding to it, and giving further original thoughts of your own?
This – the latter above – is what a ‘discussion’ is. You distinguish yourself by manfestly failing to do this. It’s incredibly basic, the minimum requirement for any basis of an actual discussion.
Yet you very rarely even acknowledge anything that anybody else says, let alone take it on board. Even when they address a point that you yourself brought up. Never an acknowledgement, never any follow-up.
That’s been the problem here, and always has been. I very much doubt if you will change. If Clark (who has the patience of a saint) has got so exasperated with you, there is little hope.
