Some student on another discussion group wrote this:
< I do apologize I was forced to do this for a college course and now I am
trying to get off the list. Help??!>
Besides the fact that the instructions for leaving the group were right in
front of her on the very pages that she read every day for a few months, she
showed a lack of awareness of life in some other ways. These were my
comments about her decision to leave that list:
*** How sad that you now consider all that this list discusses to be useless
to your future life! Even if a single book or a single discussion group
teaches you ONE useful new thing, it should be regarded as valuable and it
may even change your life forever. That is why, as a person whose life is so
busy that I often do not sleep for two days on end, I continue to be a member
of more than a dozen discussion groups, even in fields that are way outside
my official world of training.
While you may think that your teachers "forced" you to join a discussion
group, they really were doing so in some attempt to broaden your horizons and
education. By the way, one can also meet so many interesting and wonderful
people on lists like this who definitely can change your life and even end up
leading to higher degrees, jobs, marriages, who knows...? I have received
numerous invitations to lecture, work and visit in countries all over the
world because of time that I have spent on discussion groups. If only folk
would spend less time casually chatting, watching porn, insulting one another
or filling their heads with inane junk on their computers, and more time on
professional discussion groups, they would soon realise how much richer they
can become!
Finally, one can recall what the late President Kennedy said: "Don't ask what
your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". So,
"Don't ask what a discussion group can do for you; ask what you can do for
that group".
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
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