Mark Kent wrote:

> [H]omer espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly:
>>
>>> I find it amusing he said "people who can afford it". Again, these
>>> guys just aren't smart enough to figure out the difference between
>>> being able to afford something and wanting to buy something for the
>>> simple sake of spending money.
>>
>> The Trolls simply refuse to accept that there could be any legitimate
>> reason for not /wanting/ Windows or other proprietary software, and that
>> therefore we must be skinflints. They're brainwashed beyond reason.
>>
>
> I have a problem with your last sentence, and I think that it should
> read like this:
>
> ... They're trying _to_ _brainwash_ people beyond reason.
>
> The trolls here do not believe the arguments they espouse, rather, they
> are replaying a corporate line for which they are being paid, either
> directly or indirectly, to do.

Oh, some of them are certainly dumb enough to believe their own bull****
--
Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Peter Köhlmann espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> [H]omer espoused:
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> I find it amusing he said "people who can afford it". Again, these
>>>> guys just aren't smart enough to figure out the difference between
>>>> being able to afford something and wanting to buy something for the
>>>> simple sake of spending money.
>>>
>>> The Trolls simply refuse to accept that there could be any legitimate
>>> reason for not /wanting/ Windows or other proprietary software, and that
>>> therefore we must be skinflints. They're brainwashed beyond reason.
>>>
>>
>> I have a problem with your last sentence, and I think that it should
>> read like this:
>>
>> ... They're trying _to_ _brainwash_ people beyond reason.
>>
>> The trolls here do not believe the arguments they espouse, rather, they
>> are replaying a corporate line for which they are being paid, either
>> directly or indirectly, to do.
>
> Oh, some of them are certainly dumb enough to believe their own bull****

I suppose if you were to say something often enough, maybe you would
come to believe it. I think psychologists and/or psychiatrists call
this process "auto-suggestion".

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