Chaska
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
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ORIGINAL: Chaska
You are possibly onto something with the one that runs amok.
That's not really what he's doing. If you look at his response to you above he tells you exactly what he's doing. He says with you he was singularly successful in getting you upset. And, he was. If you ignore him he gets bored and goes away. When you argue with him he enjoys it. It's like they say, when you wrestle with a pig in the mud, eventually you realize the pig enjoys it. (In this case no pun intended.)
I appreciate your advice and you make a valid point, with one exception ( he thinks, he has gotten to me, as I pointed out, It's an illusion.) There is just a difference in our philosophy, typically I just avoid these type of people. There is just more at play here. We have a resident pig that runs rampant and his stinch permeates the form, personally it's how it effects the forum as a whole and discourges some from participating, especially new posters.
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Like many insightful quotes this one nails an important idea, but really just one side of it. If you step back, you'll recognize the other side and then you will have cornered yourself with a fundamental tough judgment call, a tension that needs to be balanced and rebalanced in changing situations.
First let's set aside one simple problem with the quote. Not all pigs can be escaped. Sometimes we are forced to wrestle with pigs because they have power over us. For example, oppressed citizens have to wrestle with the dictator even if he's a pig.
There are many ways to be a pig, including refusing to engage in debate. For example the dictator who oppresses his citizens, is completely inaccessible to dialogue, and accuses anyone who disagrees with him of being a pig. He's a pig, right?
Though I can't find an objective test, I've sought a definition of a pig. My best guess so far is that a pig is someone whose beliefs are formulaically fortified against all self-doubt.
Wrestle With a Pig
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The Art of Go
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How does the proverb pertain to Go? Well, it's what I (Alex) repeat to myself whenever faced with unreasonable opponents, as happens occasionally in tournaments, and more or less every game on IGS or KGS.
Anyone with much Go experience (except, perhaps, those who only ever play against the same small group of opponents) has encountered the sort of player I'm talking about - the one whose only Go training seems to be tsumego, and thousands of blitz games, refuses to follow any known joseki (or, at least, anything except the taisha, the large avalanche or the Magic Sword), and forgoes anything resembling a territory or a moyo in favour of five hundred weak groups running every which-way. In short, a player in whose mind the game of Go is one protracted bloodbath, without much in the way of strategy or long-term planning.
So I leave you with a quote although I can't say I coined it.
"It's Not Wise to Wrestle With a Lion"
ETA: mock ( you know who you are ) break this down and take it out of context as wonted.
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