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You really don't do yourself any favors when you ignore and don't address substantive points like these. Shirina is a trained historian, an intelligent human being, and if I don't miss my guess, posts many of these messages at some significant cost in personal discomfort. People see your non-responses like this and note it accordingly.
Disagree all you want ... but do it with honest, symmetrical engagement. Otherwise you're simply allowing your position to be dismantled without demonstrating any reason it should not be.
No disrespect, but I'm not going to discuss other posters with you.
You really don't do yourself any favors when you ignore and don't address substantive points like these. Shirina is a trained historian, an intelligent human being, and if I don't miss my guess, posts many of these messages at some significant cost in personal discomfort. People see your non-responses like this and note it accordingly.
Disagree all you want ... but do it with honest, symmetrical engagement. Otherwise you're simply allowing your position to be dismantled without demonstrating any reason it should not be.
"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
When you discuss as intelligently as nateswift, you can make comments like that.
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Originally Posted by BaptistFundie
No disrespect, but I'm not going to discuss other posters with you.
You have more excuses and evasions than a porcupine has prickles. I'll just remark to any Christians who are looking at your performance with dismay, that most of you are far better than this. Look up his other posts and see how he gets thumped but keeps on putting the same arguments, different words.
For a baker to say he is "forced" to sell a cake to a homosexual is the ultimate upscale, ruling class, Lexus driving, mink wearing, first world problem, as a perfect textbook example. These religious freaks are basically people with nothing better to do than try to busybody everyone else.
You see, this is why I will never play nice with you.
Even when I do, you take a big crap all over my post.
Oh, and I think it is absolutely HILARIOUS that you STILL just HAD to respond to me, even if it's just a stupid emoticon.
You can't just walk away, can you.
Nope.
You said you weren't going to respond to me anymore -- and even a single eye-rolling emoticon is still a response.
Which makes you a liar, BF, and your pants aren't just on fire, they're a damn conflagration. A veritble four alarm fire with temperatures hot enough to melt lead.
You really don't do yourself any favors when you ignore and don't address substantive points like these. Shirina is a trained historian, an intelligent human being, and if I don't miss my guess, posts many of these messages at some significant cost in personal discomfort. People see your non-responses like this and note it accordingly.
Disagree all you want ... but do it with honest, symmetrical engagement. Otherwise you're simply allowing your position to be dismantled without demonstrating any reason it should not be.
Thanks, mordant -- but I'm pretty sure BF, by now, is entirely unreachable.
I still plan to tear his arguments apart for the enjoyment and entertainment of others -- and then sit back and laugh as he can't help but say *something* in response even though he said he wasn't going to respond to me anymore.
Coming from, as I've said before, the jungles of unmoderated forums, "peace treaties" between individual posters are of paramount importance lest the entire forum degenerate into non-stop flame wars and name-calling.
In the past, some of my best friends were my worst enemies in an actual debate -- but they would be the very first people to leap to my defense if I was unfairly attacked. They didn't have to agree to be a human being.
As such, I've developed a knack for knowing who I can trust with a "peace treaty," the type of which BF proposed to me several times. What he wanted wasn't a "peace treaty" -- because in such a treaty with others in the past, I'm still allowed to be who I am and express my opinions. It just means my opponents won't slather the board with ad-hominem attacks.
What BF wanted as essentially the enforcement of a gag order. His treaty stipulated that I no longer criticize, attack, mock, or be in any way disrespectful to his religious beliefs. Now ... seriously ... why would I accept those limitations just so a lightweight like BF won't attack me? Haha!
So yeah ... as I said, I thank you for the support and the praise, but I'm sure you know as well as I do that he won't be satisfied until I sit obediently with my hands folded in my lap and remain silent -- you know, like a good little Biblical woman -- demure, deferential, and obedient.
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