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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Actually, you do.  That was the point.  You avoid, at all costs, anything 
that doesn't fit your scenario.  You pick apart or reframe a discussion so 
that your black and white absolutism fits.  Bottomline, you can preach 
unschooling till h*ll freezes over but your mindset is p.s.  It is your way 
or the highway.  Everything and everybody else is wrong until the *expert* 
pontificates.  Yup, just like p.s.

You don't believe that little things will help, so you immediately tear down 
anything that is said that doesn't fit that scenario.  You spent time until 
you found something on the link Bill sent that would support your negative 
attitude.  Heaven forbid that there be something there that was actually 
working because that wouldn't have received a second of your time, let alone 
enough time to think about what positive impact it might have.

A real good example of your usual and customary reframing "For example, the 
gadgetless cook can easily get a "true" simmer over a gas stove, wood stove, 
charcoal grill, and probably over a candle flame.   But to the gadget 
aficionado, no .... it's got to be a specific type of electric stove or else 
it isn't a "true" simmer.  A bit black and white, wouldn't you say?"

a)  I never mentioned a "specific type of electric stove;" b) nor did I say 
one couldn't get a true simmer from "some" gas stoves, nor did I mention a 
wood stove, a charcoal grill or a candle flame, this is simply one more 
example of your inability to read precisely what was written and respond 
accordingly.

You took what I said out of context and reframed it, but that doesn't change 
the facts!  Your little rant is just that, the sitting on the floor, heel 
kicking of someone who doesn't like being proven wrong!

I'll put my skills in the kitchen up against yours any day of the week! 
Playing with gadgets hasn't deminished those skills one little bit.  Those 
gadgets do exactly what I said, free up my time for other things.  Hmmmm, 
gadgetless things at that.  Not a tractor or rototiller to be seen in my 
garden, nor has there ever been!  And the knitting, crocheting, lace making 
and embroidery plus at least 50% of the quilting is all done by hand. 
Sheesh, knowing you, you'd prbably gripe that I use a spinning wheel for 
making yarn.

Lynda, who hates having to agree with Bill!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> In "my" reality, I can't dismiss things I would prefer not be true by 
> saying
> that after all, *everything* is a shade of gray.  No body really believes 
> that
> and certainly no one acts on that belief.