Keep up the good work ttbn. Thanks. It's interesting that some people say that they want to talk about something to clarify their understanding and then tell you what to think. Sealions- more fish

You are either stupid or being deliberately obtuse now. Nobody is telling you what to post; it's the way you go about it, and I can't tell you how to do that either. But I can comment and express my opinion. You pretend to be asking a question, but you are setting people up to blast them with ABC loopy left propaganda and other Marxist junk. In this post, you lectured people with 14 posts to their 12 between 6 people. It's all about you. Get a life. Have your say, but stop thinking that you have to keep nagging everyone who disagrees with you until they can't take any more or are bored stiff with your egomanical raving. You are not going to make any difference to anything, just like the rest of us who take ourselves less seriously, who also get just the the one vote every 3 or 4 years. Get yourself elected if you want influence.

Canem Malum,

Thanks for that. She is one of three posters I cannot stand. There are probably more people here who disagree with me than do. But they at least have their say without going on, and on, and on, as if they have been ordained to 're-educate" everyone. Working for Bejiing, maybe?

"You will never reach your destination if you stop
and throw stones at every dog that barks."

(Winston Churchill).

ttbn said-

Canem Malum,

Thanks for that. She is one of three posters I cannot stand. There are probably more people here who disagree with me than do. But they at least have their say without going on, and on, and on, as if they have been ordained to 're-educate" everyone. Working for Bejiing, maybe?

Answer-

I think that more people agree with you than you think. I value your contributions- and find myself mostly agreeing with you. But what does that mean? Sometimes I don't even agree with myself- so two people will never agree on everything. Actor Chuck Norris now cancelled as a racist- strange- (I believe that Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Great Australian Dick Smith may be in the same position) says that we should focus on the positive- but there is the view that if you don't object you agree- at least that's the way it works in some circles- so one feels obliged to object even though the poster has brought up the same point numerous times. As you've said this strategy is commonly used as part of communist tactics.

Sometimes I just talk around these people because it's pointless appealing to their better nature as they don't have one.

Sometimes I stop for a few hours and think about my reply. It's usually not a good idea to reply while angry. I can reply at my leisure and they can wait rocking back and forth and frothing at their mouths- and cursing "the fascists" under their breath.

I think that you are, like myself, also somewhat Traditionalist in your outlook- though how it's embodied may be differently focused.

" I would like to take you guys seriously
but to do so would affront your intelligence."

"You claim to want to give a hearing to other
views, but then are shocked and offended to
discover that there are other views."

"You should both be adamant about the need for the
appearance of Judeo-Christianity in the
public square."

"Although I profoundly believe that it takes a
lot of practice to become a moral slob."

All these were quotes said by - William F. Buckley, Jr.
which I thought were appropriate - given the
circumstances to which your diversion of my discussion
has stooped.

Start your own discussion on me instead of trying to divert
this one of mine on religion. I'd be quite flattered.