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   mumble to All   
   Re: storytelling: talent or skill?   
   12 Jun 14 04:28:15   
   
   From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/11/2014 05:20 AM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/11/14 4:46 AM, mumble wrote:   
   >> On 06/10/2014 08:44 AM, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   >>> I suggest you stop trying to state truths that are, in fact, just your   
   >>> opinion.   
   >>   
   >> I suggest that writing an "in my humble opinion" disclaimer in every   
   >> post, whether explicit or implied, is an imbecilic expression of   
   >> arrogance.   
   >>   
   >> True humility is never explicitly expressed, it is not something   
   >> stenciled on a sweatshirt, it is something the perceiver may grasp, or   
   >> not.   
   >>   
   >   
   >      Writing judgmental posts that read as though you, and you alone,   
   > have the TRVTH, expresses your own egoism rather thoroughly. Good work.   
      
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   them implies that the reader is somehow required to agree with them is   
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