Re: rip erik naggum

toby wrote:
On Jul 6, 10:04 pm, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Miles Bader wrote:
toby <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I get the feeling he was basically a smart guy but just couldn't control
his emotions...
I disagree somewhat. His rants, to me, demonstrate a very fine control
of his emotions. His posts are not the result of an angry guy pounding
the keyboard in a rage, but rather somebody who took great pains to
correct, *by argument*, the inanities, sloppy thinking and falsehoods
that he despised.
You've clearly never seen him at his nuttiest...
I would say "angriest".
... Erik ... just became more and more beside himself trying to
penetrate folks' idiocy shields.

I finally ascribed this to a positive impulse within him: he respected
others /too much/. He could not just brush off someone as worthless,
because anyone once encountered was important to him. He was not
anti-social, he was too social. The sociopath is the one who does not
really know the other exists.

Erik went the other way, always wanting more out of us than we were
capable of.

Well said!

I don't know, I ended the sentence with a preposition, Erik would not be pleased.

kt
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