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Billy wrote:

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(paghat) wrote:

In article
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Billy wrote:

In article ,
"symplastless" wrote:

I am working on the three day deal. Your comments will be taken into
consideration.
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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting Forester & Tree Expert
http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com

John, your stress is palpable. You are making simple reading mistakes. We
don't know what is going on with you, but you seem to care, and we don't
doubt your wanting to help.

Well i certainly doubt "wanting to help" explains persistent irrational
claims of expertise. If someone pretends to be a doctor and attempts to
give medical advice, that's overtly harmful and dangerous, also crazy if
the chap believes he's really a doctor. So too giving oneself all sorts of
biology and arborist and forestry titles without any license or education
to back that up is just a tad loony.

So I rather suspect a mental disorder born of justifiably low self esteem
having given rise to a desire to be regarded as "the" expert without the
wherewithal to first obtain any expertise. We all tend to feel transiently
expert in any topic for which we just finished reading and enjoying one
book. The sane don't persist for years and years in advertising such
expertise without basis in reality.

-paghat the ratgirl

So you take the person who compulsively washes their hands, and tie
their hands together? You saw the movie "M". What did Peter Lorre say
about compulsions? For Christ's sake, is it so freakin' difficult for
you to ignore his posts? And you claim to be "normal"?

I never claimed to be normal, maybe more so in middle age than I'm proud
of, but never entirely. But i do find it easy to ignore symptomless's
posts. I doubt I read more than one in 1,000 of his bazillion posts, and
that one only because I wasn't paying attention to what I was opening.
He's been doing this same stuff for years, has been chased away
periodically from sundry newsgroups, but always returns, sometimes with
amazing paranoid rants a boasts of mightiness in his imaginary realm.
There's never anything new so no reason to read it again -- but I greatly
enjoy reading peoples' responses, partly so as to be sure everyone already
knows not to take the advice seriously (they almost always do know that),
but even more because responders are often very witty and one of the cool
things about usenet is the comedy.

-paghat the ratgirl
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