"I hate to say it, but it looks like you're feeling superior again, Little Hawk. . . ."

Yeah. I am. ;-) I did say "everyone", didn't I, Don? That obviously includes me. But I own up to it, and I laugh at all of us...myself included.

We all argue and debate as we go through life...sometimes about fairly substantial things, usually about very trivial things. The moment we start doing it, our egos become engaged. Our every response is an attempt to assert some kind of ego dominance over the other person's last response. And on and on and on it goes. This thread is one of the most egregious examples of that petty process spinning itself out over and over again.

And what does it all come down to?

"You're an asshole."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes, you are, and what you just said proves it."

"No, it doesn't."

"Oh, but it does. I am a highly respected folksinger and all my friends adore me and they all say you're an asshole too, so it's obviously true."

"No, it isn't, because you didn't understand me that last time."

"Oh, yes I did. We all understood you. But you don't understand yourself, because you're an asshole."

And so on, and so on.

And now you're telling me that I'm feeling superior? Well, yeah! Of course I am. I like me better than I do the guy I'm arguing with. In that respect I'm exactly like everyone else here. We're ALL assholes at times!!!!

And when we are we go...   Bla. Bla. Bla.

But it's fun to do that, right? And it's just too irrestistible not to try one more time to get in the last telling word that PROVES the other guy is wrong, right?

Prove me wrong by never posting to this silly damn thread again, Don.

Surprise me. Prove you're not driven by your little preening ego the way I and every else here is driven by our little preening ego. Prove that YOU are better than that.