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alansmithee:
maybe you do not explain your positions clearly.
maybe there is a side of you that resents having to explain your positions.
maybe you do to really respond to questions before moving into an attack.
the posts i see of yours here indicate that this might be a pattern of yours---and i do not mean offense by saying this.....
what i do sometimes see from conservatives, particularly from organized conservatives on campus, is this sense of martyrdom that links in the last analysis to the sense these folk seem to have that they should get better grades, that they should be other than they are somehow...rather than think about whether the problem lay with themselves, it is quicker and easier to blow smoke about a"liberal" conspiracy of one type or another. and it is that kind of response--which you see all the time in print in various outlets in particular--but which you do not see in actual interactions, even with the same people---that gets me a bit impatient, simply as a function of the smugness that seems to underpin it.
you assume that your views are above question because they are your views.
but you are moving through a phase, like any other college student, during which you are trying out ideas, trying out positions, big parts of which you are repeating from elsewhere, working through them as you do so.
so what makes you so sure that it is everyone else who is wrong when they ask you questions you do not answer, and that none of the problem lay with yourself?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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