Re:My Love, Hate, Love Again, Affair with Paul Graham
by mahmud on Friday March 27, 2009 @01:35PM
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First of all, go to the root of the website and see the promotional weight-loss program therein (no comment.)
Secondly, go through the essay again and you will find someone who is attributing his life choices, good or bad, to someone else who he has never consulted, met in person or even corresponded with:
> "Alone in my room I rolled on the carpet and screamed “I love you, Paul Graham.” "
This is after reading "A Taste for Makers"
>"Over the next three years I must have read A Taste For Makers at least twenty times."
Biblical exegesis?
>" I felt bad because your writings had more influence on me than my own father."
Completely unwilling to accept/admit that his life choices, influenced by an external input (in this case PG's writings), are still his own.
> "Admittedly I am a nobody compared to you but a part of me was a tad jealous of your success. "
No comment.
>At this point I figured you had completely lost it. Your stature as a guru was toast!
Secondly, go through the essay again and you will find someone who is attributing his life choices, good or bad, to someone else who he has never consulted, met in person or even corresponded with:
> "Alone in my room I rolled on the carpet and screamed “I love you, Paul Graham.” "
This is after reading "A Taste for Makers"
>"Over the next three years I must have read A Taste For Makers at least twenty times."
Biblical exegesis?
>" I felt bad because your writings had more influence on me than my own father."
Completely unwilling to accept/admit that his life choices, influenced by an external input (in this case PG's writings), are still his own.
> "Admittedly I am a nobody compared to you but a part of me was a tad jealous of your success. "
No comment.
>At this point I figured you had completely lost it. Your stature as a guru was toast!
See, he wants a guru.