You went ahead and took over the seminar here, which is my biggest ambition for BUGS.

Let me cite one example in these comments of our difference from others. It is only one.

Not the least benefit of being part of the only real seminar on earth is learning again what a seminar or a moot IS. The exchanges in the Tim comments show a group of equals going at each other but as a TEAM.

This is a very critical distinction. If you read these statements, you will see something unique. This is not an ARGUMENT with each person trying to justify himself.

Simmons makes a statement about Tim that would totally sidetrack all discussion on Stormfront. Instead of the SF, “God, how DARE you accuse me of that?!” Tim used it as a basis for some hard thinking. In other words, Tim’s reaction was not to fight back because Simmons was not being diplomatic.

This is two separate points. First, Tim did not RUSH back to counterattack. He thought about what Simmons had brought up to make it a part of a CONTRIBUTION here. Second, Tim did not regard his role her as just arguing with Simmons. Simmons was not being diplomatic; he was making his CONTRIBUTION as he saw it.

That is what separates a TEAM, or Moot, approach from the stuff we are used to and are trying to GROW out of.

Put in basic terms, we regard ourselves not as debating individuals in competition but as a TEAM trying to get at the TRUTH. We have plenty of tolerance for a lack of diplomacy or bad examples of the sort I often use, but we are mutually the enemies of NONSENSE.