I’ll revisit this briefly. Then it’s all Andrew’s.
Is there anything wrong with expecting to be given some respect ? YOU should demand that of forum users…
In a discussion forum, respect cannot be expected. Earned perhaps, slowly… painfully.
In case you haven’t caught on… the way this forum is structured, no one has the power to demand anything of anybody.
We have to try our best to get along. You could do better.
Okay MORLEY—I think it is disgusting and deteriorating to be fighting on a forum like this. This is a thinking and really honorable project that can do a lot of good if we SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR IT . Fighting,back-biting, attacking,bullying ,badgering,etc. are the same as trashing this blog. All that kind of adolescent behavior is something we should have gotten out of our system before we graduated from highschool. And when I say “bully ” I include trying to incite bad feeling in others against another person. That is lowly and petty and mean. It’s a conspiracy to stigmatize a member and it is really shameful !
If it sounds like I’m part of the fight, well it happens because I have been forced to defend myself . I hate it, and it shouldn’t happen. I don’t instigate fights. Some people here are just plain mean-spirited. They pollute.
About “respect “—-well, yes, I certainly do understand that, when you come right down to it, respect is something we earn. But- you know what ? I feel I have earned it. People here who give me a bad time wouldn’t know that. That’s because they don’t really read my posts, they have their minds all made up before they ever read. It’s not a reading session - it’s a teasing, taunting and belittling session.
There’s a reason for all this, and it isn’t because of anything I have said or did that’s REALLY wrong . It’s because I have a different view, ideas, vision. I’m a difference of opinion and it flies in the face of all 98% of what the participants here live by . Their adorable boy wonder president is rejected by me-you can start there. Every since they found out don’t like him they have made a bigot out of me, and they just can’t stand my attitude. They just can’t bear anyone here who thinks like me. When I say “they” I am talking mostly of three or four of our regulars. They are very “loved ” but that’s no mystery because they all think alike.
In the years I’ve been here I’ve given a lot. I’m just like anyone else here in that I long for the time when religion doesn’t have the power to screw up human lives.







