<HTML>No, Greg.
The apology was not the same, although it was similar in nature.
I had made a faux pas that I have explained in full detail on the GHMB. I'm glad you brought it up here, because it gives me the chance to address the issue with the people whom it most fully involved.
Since the opening of the new Ma'at site, I have found no reason to feel one ounce of animosity nor superiority for anyone at this site. We have people here with incredible capacities, resources, and experiences. I cherish our thoughtful interchanges, and hope they continue into the future.
By nature, I am a peace maker. Some might say that the best negotiators are simply the best manipulators. Well, so be it. I like the way things have changed since I arrived, and although I have never requested nor taken one ounce of credit for any of it, I would like to think that I was a catalyst for some of the smaller changes.
And this would be the strict definition of catalyst, by the way... something that accelerates an event without actually taking part in it.
If I'm wrong, and if I had nothing to do with it, then I'll just be happy in my own little delusion that I helped. Please let me be. If you want to hold me prisoner and charge me with "wanton discussion manipulation", well, then so be it.
But isn't that what a debate is all about?
Anthony
ps.
This entire sidetrack discussion has NOTHING to do with the Herodotus machine, which I mentioned months ago when I first arrived on the web. I hope we can move beyond Avry's distraction tactics and get back around to the good clean fun of hardcore science.
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