"Transparent ploy" sounds like I'm up to some nefarious activity. I know how you feel about wonka ... or I think I do. I'm not trying to bug anyone. I know what he did. What I'm after is the mystery of intransigent belief. Once one has a belief that behaves unalterably it holds a certain strength but only to the source. It matter to others only if they let it matter. It's like a rock. A rock has unchanging strength. It only hurts if you throw it and it hits someone. That's two parts: it has to be thrown. Someone has to stand in its path.
As for staff. They are silent. If they object to something they think I am implying, let them speak up and say I'm on the wrong path. They haven't (particulars in the past have already been spoken for), so I assume I'm okay. Of course you jenny I'd like to hear more of this from as you haven't spoken to me, only just now.
I've lost you. Isn't that what I'm doing? Where or how do you see me as being his "mouthpiece"? Am I too specific and would you prefer me to speak in greater generalizations?
Seriously? You don't have to mention or talk about the guy to talk about "intransigent belief" as a concept. Just stop bringing him and his banning up and discuss the topic you claim you want to discuss in your own words.
Now that's a real really good point. I believe that's a good reason to get snuffed. I've been told by some here and on other Forums that I behave politely and courteously ... for the most part. That's me. But what you say goes both ways. When someone is inconsiderate of others I see the powers that be behave in exactly the same way. Well maybe not exactly, but anything but respectfully. This is an argument up for grabs: If someone is disrespectful do they get spoken disrespect in return? Hell it's the example people set. I wince every time I see discourtesy on the part of any member of this Forum. Those in power should set the BEST examples. Do they?
Let me sum this up for you: A jerk moves into the neighborhood, blasts his boombox all night, creates public disturbances and spectacles even when the entire neighborhood complains and refuses to treat others with respect, and then when someone finally gets pissed (because all the considerate resolutions have failed) and eggs his car, you climb on your soapbox and declare, "Oh, how dare you be discourteous to this chap!"
I don't cry for the guy. He received what he instigated. If you want to be part of a group, then you have to fit to the mores of the group; and if you don't like the mores, go somewhere else. He didn't show respect to others, and finally the forum turned on him.
Move on.
I would like to see that turned around. Now how can I do my part to turn it around without talking about it and perhaps experimentally making mistakes. If people are involved how would I address them without mentioning them? By generalizations and abstractions as I'm doing in this post?
How many times has this exact same conversation occurred on this forum? I'm not even trying to get dragged into it, and yet here I am. Stupid, stupid me. Getting back to your rock analogy, the problem is that even when I stand outside the line of fire, I still get hit by the stupid rocks because they go in every direction.
You're smart. Figure this out.
