Posted by Lou Pilder on November 12, 2006, at 16:13:11
In reply to Re: questions about past posts » Jost, posted by zazenducky on November 12, 2006, at 14:55:29
Friends,
It is written here,[...as long as the archives can be read..they..>exist in the {present}<...].
The forum has pages like a book. One can read a book in the present, even though a page may have already been read. The page that is before another page is there because both pages can not be there and be read at the same time. Does that mean that one must conclude that one page is in the past and the other is in the present? In fact,if there is a present and a past page, could not one say that the sentence that was just read is {in the past} and that only the sentence that one is reading is in the present? If that is the case, then if one is using some thinking that only present statements can be sanctioned, then could any statement be sanctioned or would it be in the past, and past statements can not be sanctioned?
I do not think that DR. Hsiung means that statements that are not on the last page {can not} be sanctioned because he has sanctioned statements that were not on the last page at the time that he sanctioned them. So I wish zazenducky the best for the contribution here for bringing up the questions as to if there are past and present posts, then could you reply to them, could you cite them and not be sanctioned if they are uncivil but not sanctioned,etc.
This is why I am offering Dr. Hsiung my suggestion to have a symbol placed next to statements that IMO have the potential to arrouse antisemitic feelings, and other statements that are left unsanctioned that are uncivil. I think that my suggestion here has merit and could do no harm. If you the reader think that by placing a symbol next to an uncivil statement that is not on the last page here could do harm, then could you post what harm could be done, even if it is what others here have posted, and then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly?
Lou
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