Why I am not a Friend (Christian, Budhist, Atheist...)
Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 10 21:41:39 CST 2002
I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and I even initially called
it in yr favor, but the instant replay proved me, if
not entirely wrong, not entirely right, either, so ...
--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Oh Stop. You're not taking a side? OK, good shepherd
> and goat keeper get the hell out of no man's land
> while my machine gun is jammed. What about that
> oooops offlist? Ooooops, did you forget about that
> one? Oh come now, please. It's a very old war and
> you know it. How can you continue to talk with
> Hollander and Doug offlist and pretend you're not
> taking sides here? You can't and that's why you're
> full of shit.
People write me, I answer. I'm assuming they're tired
of running the gauntlet here, so ...
But an all-too-rare civil exchange betwixt Mr. Jbor
and myself was apparently misread by both of us, and I
was surprised the whole thing didn't escalate for
once, is all, or at least continue in its usual
oblique coldwar way. A pattern broken? Maybe, maybe
not. Certainly not by others rushing in to fill the
void in hostilities here, however ...
But, again, you ain't been hassled 'til you've been
hassled by Hollander, that's for sure. Y'all are
drawing the lines betwixt "sides" here, not me. Hell,
Hollander doesn't even bother with the List anymore,
seems I'm suffering for someone's sins now in that
regard, so ...
So, point is, if you have a problem with people
disagreeing with you, well, I'm guessing you're gonna
keep having problems. Me, I have a problem with
people being assholes about it, is all ...
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