On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:29:57 +0900, Raj Feridun
<rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:37:49 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On 11/23/2003 10:10 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>> Scott Reynolds wrote:
> 
>>>>On 11/23/2003 9:37 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>
>>>>>I can believe that in a rural area with a more traditional sense of
>>>>>community, he might actually be sheltered from the problem, and be allowed
>>>>>to have his view that problems he has never seen or experienced are merely
>>>>>a way of life, and someone else's problem.
>
>>>>Could be. I've never lived in a really rural community and it would be
>>>>silly for me to make assumptions about what life is like in one.
> 
>>> Technically, I've lived in two small rural communities with more traditional
>>> values for about 22 years. If the people of those communities are in denial or
>>> ignorance on some matter, it is perfectly understandable. Fukuyama is not
>>> Tokyo, either.
> 
>>> In any case, I see one man from a rural area who deliberately avoids news,
>>> claiming there is no need to lock house or can doors, that the worse crime in
>>> the entire prefecture is bad driving; and another who claims that they don't
>>> see a homeless problem, or their homeless are well hidden, also suggesting he
>>> hangs around a good crowd.
> 
>>> What other conclusion can be drawn?
>
>>I'm sorry, what was your conclusion?
>
>>Was it that our friend Raj just doesn't see the reality around him, 
>>either intentionally or unintentionally?
>
>Oh, I'm sorry, were YOU around me too, Ryan?! I thought you lived
>somewhere else. 

He does. So does *Scott*, the guy you're replying to.

>But that's not possible since you know what my reality
>here is. Or is this just a side effect of knowing everything about
>everything? By the way please teach me how to do that!

P.S. - Scott doesn't know anything about everything, Rodney does.

--
Bryan with a マ-ファキン "Y"