evolving wrote:So why do you continue to engage, and post on these type discussions? do you believe something different will happen each time you argue with your critics on BB's -- or -- is this some form of game play, an extreme form of mental masturbation?
I once had hope that I could reason with certain of my more persistent slanderers. That hope faded a long time ago.
After that, I decided that my purpose was simply to go on record as contradicting the claims of my most persistent slanderers -- not for their benefit, but for the possible benefit of the handful of people looking on here who might imagine that a lack of contradiction from me confirmed the slanderers' claims. I think that purpose is now largely fulfilled, at least for the small audience currently here. (New people will probably arrive with the passage of time, and my most persistent slanderers will, of course, persist. That's what they do. So I may have to come back and contradict their claims again, from time to time.)
In any event, I leave late tonight for a month off the continent, and I will not be posting here during that time. Whether I'll come back, when I return, at anything like the level of involvement I've had here recently is doubtful: As I say, my purposes for being here are largely fulfilled, and, in any case, I'll have a lot more (domestic) traveling in October and November, as well.
Aren't you glad you asked?