“The proprietor on April 13” wrote: I’m being accused over at the Peterson Obsession Board of having deleted a lengthy exchange, including ten or fifteen posts in which I supposedly assaulted this blog’s stunningly dogmatic resident atheist commenter, “gemli, as “stupid” and “ignorant.” Presumably, I deleted it because I found it somehow embarrassing. Now, it’s absolutely the case that I believe gemli to be — by conscious choice — remarkably and determinedly ignorant of the subjects on which he presumes to comment here, but I have never called him “stupid” and I don’t believe him to be so.
It really seems like the proprietor is having some difficulty keeping his stories straight these days. I honestly hope these lapses in basic logical thinking are not indicative of some medical issue.“The same proprietor 3 days later” wrote: gemli: "I have no intention of being glib or dismissive regarding this topic."
By. now, the habit is so ingrained that glib dismissals and refusals to engage come to gemli automatically. Reflexively. It's tempting, sometimes, to suspect that no conscious mind remains.
It’s hard to square a sane person making these statements just days apart and convincing themselves that they’re telling the truth.
Perhaps decades of lying to oneself eventually catches up? And can no longer be sustained?
