On 6/18/2010 8:20 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:14:02AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
Is this vitriol really necessary? I installed ganglia; not a single conflict.
Why yes, John, it is. The fine man said outright he didn't believe my honest account, accusing me of making something up when I was only giving the facts. He was calling me a liar. He preferred to see my account as a lie so as not to surrender his faith that Ganglia is a pure and perfect project.
there is a big difference in saying you don't believe a person's information and calling them a liar. You may just be saying you perceive things differently or maybe that the person doesn't understand about which he is speaking. He may be entirely truthful and still not be believed.
And there's a gray area where what the person says is technically true regarding his observations but then he places blame on others for a situation he created himself. The part not to be believed is the incorrect conclusion, especially when you can easily disprove it yourself - so its not a lie, it is a mistake.