Eric.

[_Joey]

It's a bit like a monkey cage at the zoo. It gets pretty noisy here, but there's no real significance to the shrieks and calls.

Now your describing FARMS!

[_Daniel Peterson]

Well, what a fine example of you defending your faith. I can't for the life of me imagine why you draw the antagonism you do given such innocuous little remarks. Such a mystery!

Sorry to have upset you, you gentle and charitable soul, you. Take some smelling salts, lie down for a few minutes, and you'll be just fine.

[_Some Schmo]

Sorry to have upset you, you gentle and charitable soul, you. Take some smelling salts, lie down for a few minutes, and you'll be just fine.

Oh, how I wish... but I'm so upset, it will take far more than salts and a nap to recover from such a massive blow to my sense of reality. I don't see how I'll ever be the same!

First you completely avoid turning the thread into one about you (when has that ever happened anyway?) and then you demonstrate just how innocent you are in your internet dealings... I've never been this shocked in my life!

[_Daniel Peterson]

First you completely avoid turning the thread into one about you (when has that ever happened anyway?) and then you demonstrate just how innocent you are in your internet dealings... I've never been this shocked in my life!

Heh heh heh. My fiendish plot worked! By showing up here to make the stunning and controversial claim that people here have no standing nor competence to pronounce judgment upon relationships within a family that doesn't post here, simply on the basis of a son's or stepson's account of things that one or more others in the family might well dispute, I've managed to make the thread about me!

[_Gadianton Plumber]

I felt like a jerk for pushing it too far. I asked to be friends. You smacked me down.

Still missing that part of your brain?

Here's what GP said: "I apologize for my baseless polemics, bishop. I will strive to keep the conversation intellectual in the future. Friends?"

Here's how I replied, in what GP describes as my "smacking him down": "GP, I really don't hold grudges. Ray A can attest to that, when he's not angry with me. I'm happy to be mutually respectful. But if you pronounce me, publicly, to be a dishonorable person who is happy to harm others, and so forth, it's very possible that I'll respond. I'm not the monster of Scratch's fantasies, nor the uncaring ideological hack of Ray's latest posts."

To which GP responds, striving to "keep the conversation intellectual" and avoid "baseless polemics":

Throws doubt on your mental abilities. . . . You are incapable of seeing reality. Yes, you ratted him out. Yes, you ratted him out. Yes, you ratted him out. . . . maybe some region of your mushy head recognizes the crime you have committed.

You ratted him out. Ask him. Eric, did the good bishop rat you out? Ask anyone else here. Anyone else, did lumpy rat Eric out? . . . bishy . . . I smell a rat, I am calling a rat . . . Danny Blob is a rat.

High quality stuff. Very intellectual.

When a philosophical ethicist of this quality finds fault with something I've done, it's an occasion for real soul-searching

So did you forgive me? Or did you take a moment to praise how good you are at making up. I sensed you did not want to be friends. So i attacked you. It is a lot of fun to attack you.

[Alf'Omega]

Heh heh heh. My fiendish plot worked! By showing up here to make the stunning and controversial claim that people here have no standing nor competence to pronounce judgment upon relationships within a family that doesn't post here, simply on the basis of a son's or stepson's account of things that one or more others in the family might well dispute, I've managed to make the thread about me!

I'm also in complete shock that reading comprehension is not one of your strong suits either. Or that you believe manically repeating the same tired argument as though it actually fools anyone is an effective strategy for distracting people from the truth.

Rocked to my foundation, I tell you!

Dannyboy in court:

Lawyer: "We have the murder weapon with your finger prints all over it, blood on your pants and shirt matching the DNA of the victim, eight eye witnesses claiming to have seen you running from the crime scene, a security camera showing you firing the gun and killing the victim, and your own signed confession moments after you were apprehended by the police, and now you want to deny you're the killer?"

Dannyboy: "The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person... (nervous tick)
The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person... (nervous tick)
The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person... (nervous tick)
The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person... (nervous tick)
The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person... (nervous tick)
The gun was a fake, and I don't see anything unethical about firing a fake gun at a person..."

[_Gadianton Plumber]

Actually Dan, let me try again. If you will forgive my earlier meanness, I promise to limits my polemics to attacks on your actions without drawing firm conclusions about your character. I promise to keep my insults relevant to the ISSUE, not stuff you can't control or such.

Well?

[_Daniel Peterson]

So did you forgive me? Or did you take a moment to praise how good you are at making up. I sensed you did not want to be friends. So i attacked you. It is a lot of fun to attack you.

And, no doubt, you'll go on doing it.

No, I don't forgive you for something you clearly plan to continue to do.

I don't really care about you that much. I'm entirely willing to be civil and polite, but, if that's not your choice, I'm fine with that, too. I don't, you see, believe that people who insult me and mock me and slander me make me look bad. Not, anyhow, in the eyes of anybody whose opinion I would ever care about.

Take, Some Schmo, for example. One of the least serious, least substantive, least coherent posters on the board (which is saying quite a bit, actually). Does his contempt for me lessen me in the eyes of any fair-minded, reflective person? I can't imagine that it does. If anything does, it's probably the fact that I even pay him any minimal attention. Wrestling with pigs, and all that.

[_Gadianton Plumber]

So did you forgive me? Or did you take a moment to praise how good you are at making up. I sensed you did not want to be friends. So i attacked you. It is a lot of fun to attack you.

And, no doubt, you'll go on doing it.

No, I don't forgive you for something you clearly plan to continue to do.

I don't really care about you that much. I'm entirely willing to be civil and polite, but, if that's not your choice, I'm fine with that, too. I don't, you see, believe that people who insult me and mock me and slander me make me look bad. Not, anyhow, in the eyes of anybody whose opinion I would ever care about.

Take, Some Schmo, for example. One of the least serious, least substantive, least coherent posters on the board (which is saying quite a bit, actually). Does his contempt for me lessen me in the eyes of any fair-minded, reflective person? I can't imagine that it does. If anything does, it's probably the fact that I even pay him any minimal attention. Wrestling with pigs, and all that.

OK, what would you accept from me. I admit I stepped over a line. I don't want to be a jerk, but I think it's OK to attack ideas and poke fun. What would you accept?

[_Some Schmo]

Take, Some Schmo, for example. One of the least serious, least substantive, least coherent posters on the board (which is saying quite a bit, actually). Does his contempt for me lessen me in the eyes of any fair-minded, reflective person? I can't imagine that it does. If anything does, it's probably the fact that I even pay him any minimal attention. Wrestling with pigs, and all that.

Awww... you're not giving yourself enough credit. You're definitely up there in terms of least serious, least substantive, least coherent posters on the board. Don't sell yourself short! I wish I had the capacity for least serious, least substantive, least coherent posts on the board that you do. Man, that would be something.

by the way, you misunderstand my intent if you think I'm attempting to lessen what others think of you. I don't need to do that in the least (nor do I care to). You're quite capable of that task all by yourself.

One more thing... Am I to understand that you think fair-minded, reflective people can't be persuaded to think less of you? If so, give me a second...

ROTFLMAO



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