gerry
Patron with Honors
That was nothing short of awesome, She's an honarary Bloke for sure
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Smilla
Ordinary Human
Smilla
Ordinary Human
I agree. It's no fun being on a board where Trolls are allowed to run riot. I've seen that happen on other boards.
I told you I was trouble
Suspended animation
I like Roland ... (I have tried my best not to, but it didn't work).
I like him even when he is being a crabby and obnoxious git.
I like him even when he is being a crabby and obnoxious git.
Type4_PTS
Diamond Invictus SP
True, it is not fun.
In the case of Roland, if he's been an effective protestor against the cult for many years then I'll have to give him some points for that. But that doesn't mean that he gets a free pass to be a complete ass in the present without any consequences.
Smilla
Ordinary Human
Yes, I feel the same.
Mark A. Baker
Sponsor
Actually Em, at the risk of telling tales out of school, BB is notorious for being kindly & not holding grudges with ANYONE regardless of ideology or faction. He really is like a great big warm & friendly puppy to whom all are good fellows happily met. His many attempts to patch up long standing & oft bloody grudge matches between mutual antagonists in the freezone are legendary. He is one of nature's "peacemakers".
For those such as myself who are cynical & jaded quite beyond the normal condition, his is a difficult state of mind to fathom. I am only able to grasp this innate niceness, and that only feebly, due to my prior history with my own father, a man of a similarly gentle & universally loving character. Like my father, BB is quite genuine in his ceaseless optimism and good hope of others. I have absolutely no doubt that BB is greatly anticipating the day that David Miscavige changes his ways so once more we can all be "best friends forever".
To know BB is to love him.
Mark A. Baker
Mark A. Baker
Sponsor
Perhaps. Still, as an "undeserving thread" it is proving to be a model for the seeking of comity, mutual understanding, & good will. Hard to find fault with it on that basis.
Mark A. Baker
Veda
Sponsor
Perhaps. Still, as an "undeserving thread" it is proving to be a model for the seeking of comity, mutual understanding, & good will. Hard to find fault with it on that basis.
Mark A. Baker
If you blink
to yourself will your head explode? Or just inflate with hot air and become real big like a beach ball?
Smilla
Ordinary Human
True. Even though I don't agree with a lot of his opinions, he is a really nice manActually Em, at the risk of telling tales out of school, BB is notorious for being kindly & not holding grudges with ANYONE regardless of ideology or faction. He really is like a great big warm & friendly puppy to whom all are good fellows happily met. His many attempts to patch up long standing & oft bloody grudge matches between mutual antagonists in the freezone are legendary. He is one of nature's "peacemakers".
For those such as myself who are cynical & jaded quite beyond the normal condition, his is a difficult state of mind to fathom. I am only able to grasp this innate niceness, and that only feebly, due to my prior history with my own father, a man of a similarly gentle & universally loving character. Like my father, BB is quite genuine in his ceaseless optimism and good hope of others. I have absolutely no doubt that BB is greatly anticipating the day that David Miscavige changes his ways so once more we can all be "best friends forever".
To know BB is to love him.
Mark A. Baker
Terril park
Sponsor
Yes makes more sense that way.
Mark A. Baker
Sponsor
zeropointreference
Patron
Having read through the thread I would like to say thanks to Emma and everyone for allowing me to post here. I'm no one of consequence and I try not to be too obnoxious, still, I do appreciate it.
And I think most people instinctly know the line is hurting versus helping. Sometimes we have to hurt others, but when someone does it intentionally and repeatedly, well, that's over the line. I like drama, but I like conflict that has resolution where something is learned. Pointless emotional conflict is wasteful, useless, and frustrating.
And I think most people instinctly know the line is hurting versus helping. Sometimes we have to hurt others, but when someone does it intentionally and repeatedly, well, that's over the line. I like drama, but I like conflict that has resolution where something is learned. Pointless emotional conflict is wasteful, useless, and frustrating.
Veda
Sponsor
Oh, well! It was.
My advice to you is apply 'How to win friends and influence people'-schmoozing-tech less, and communicate simply, and honestly, more. And try to control the urge towards indulging in exhibitionistic erudition.
The Great Zorg
Gold Meritorious Patron
Eh!
The above is EXACTLY how someone from OSA would reply! So there: zeropoint is OSA!
Anyone who disagrees with me is OSA!
If Emma boots me over this then she's obviously deep, deep OSA.
My ISP is working with her and OSA anyways, as is everyone and everything else: OSA is everywhere!!!!
Actually, I shouldn't even post this because everyone reading it is, of course, OSA!
So now we have come to learn that OSA is in fact, everywhere, all the time.
So that's just the way it is.
By the by, what exactly is "OSA"????????
The above is EXACTLY how someone from OSA would reply! So there: zeropoint is OSA!
Anyone who disagrees with me is OSA!
If Emma boots me over this then she's obviously deep, deep OSA.
My ISP is working with her and OSA anyways, as is everyone and everything else: OSA is everywhere!!!!
Actually, I shouldn't even post this because everyone reading it is, of course, OSA!
So now we have come to learn that OSA is in fact, everywhere, all the time.
So that's just the way it is.
By the by, what exactly is "OSA"????????
Smilla
Ordinary Human
You are of as much consequence as anybody else. A bit of conflict is part of the way human beings are made, and will always happen. As you infer, conflict can be positive thing if it leads to a resolution or new understanding. The behavior which led to the bans was not really conflict - it was the deliberate targeting of a certain person, with the intention of hurting and demoralizing her. This is intolerable, in my view.
Terril park
Sponsor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
A snippet here for fundamentalist Veda-ism.
Religion
Conflict theory: Galileo before the Holy Office, by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, a 19th century depiction of the Galileo Affair, religion suppressing heliocentric science.
In Classical antiquity (ca. 8th c. BC–AD 600) and in the Modern era (ca. 1500), religion tended to anti-intellectual sentiment — usually among fundamentalists who perceived doctrinal contradictions allowing too much freedom. Yet, said sentiment was not universal, e.g. Judaism’s scholarly and theologic traditions, and the Western university system evolved from religious schools. Moreover, mediæval and modern philosophers — Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant — considered themselves religious without contradicting their intellectualism; see the Conflict Thesis for further discussion of religious anti-intellectualism.
Type4_PTS
Diamond Invictus SP
Anyone who disagrees with me is OSA!
Ha Ha........I suspected that you were OSA Zorg, but now it's confirmed.
