
Originally Posted by
CallumMSmith

Originally Posted by
KJW

Originally Posted by
CallumMSmith
Use your imagination and try to picture myself speaking it to you with proper use of commas and full stops.
I think it is more the responsibility of the speaker to try to be clear than for the listener to try to understand. Why should we bother?
Sorry but my strong interest in this subject seems to be much stronger than my ability to spell and use grammar like all you folks, rather than writing that then a small effort could have been made to simply read over what i typed once again instead of writing another blunt and numbing comment like the rest of your mates that live on this website.
Callum, you are asking many of us to put in the effort to extract meaning from your ramblings. That adds up to a lot of total effort. If you were to put a fraction of that effort into writing clearly in the first place all that effort on our part would be unecessary.
In my role as a moderator I issued a warning to a respected and valued member of this forum because I believe he had been rude to you. Your unwillingness to put in a little effort to be better understood is rude and it is lazy. Is that the impression you wish to create?

Originally Posted by
CallumMSmith

Originally Posted by
John Galt
Thought: is disciplined thinking more or less effective than undiscplined thinking.
Effective for doing what? What are you trying to achieve when using discipline to punish your own mind for having your own natural thoughts and thinking as you do. What is the reason for being so against yourself when trying to improve. It applies to everything, the less you worry about anything the better it will tend to go, unless you're a soldier or something then it is always necessary. I don't think there is such a thing as a bad thought rather just a misunderstood emotion or a stubborn ego behind it.
You ask effective doing what. Effective at arriving at useful conclusions, effective at communicating ones thoughts to others, effective at solving problems, etc.
In what way - I mean, really, in what frigging way is disciplined thinking a punishment? In what way is using ones powers of logic and reason being against yourself? Why would thinking in a random, waffling, arm-waving kind of a way contribute to self improvement?
Callum, you are very welcome on the forum. I imagine when you hang out with friends you have an unwritten code of conduct you pretty much all adhere to. (If you think not, then you just aren't oaying attention.) This is true of any community and this forum is a community. Do you want to fit in and thereby maximise your enjoyment, enhance your learning and gain respect, or do you want to be the young rebel who thumbs his nose at the conservative farts? So far I think you're making the wrong choice. But that's up to you.
Cheers,
JG