[quote author="WINEX" date=1226831992]You are right. My opinion on the matter is irrelevant. The fact is that you have a very fragile ego and a genuine need to give yourself self reinforcement that you can't get from society. Whether it's the continual boasting you do about your prowess in every and any thing imaginable, or the sense of power you gain from being a moderator of a small internet forum makes no difference. I can't stop you from making a fool of yourself.
While I am sure this will fall on deaf ears, perhaps you would be better off (and feel better about yourself) if you channeled a fraction of the energy you expend on this forum telling everyone how great you are towards actually accomplishing something. Anything.</blockquote>
I know that you want to push my buttons, and I too push yours, but I am not going to let you this time.
I find it amazing how skek and EvaL can have a discussion about politics, but somehow they can do it in a way that neither are inflammatory, and continue the discussion in a respectful way when it is quite clear they come from the opposite political spectrum. For that, I have a tremendous respect, and it is not only me who has made it publicly clear that they are respected when they are on the opposite side of their opinion. I do push skek's buttons, but he sees it for what it is, and knows that I'm doing it for that purpose and he plays off of it. He is a good sport, and should be commended for it. I also will go against the grain, and I don't always agree with EvaL in this thread, and other threads. So, to think I am biased is apparently and obviously not true.
I don't want to ban you, and really I don't think other people do either, but I do think everyone here wishes you could make your points in the same way that skek and EvaL can make them without the inflammatory rhetoric. I will admit, I haven't kept myself to their standards of discussions, but at least I recognize it and wish to overcome that. I would hope that you would too.
I know that you do care what I say, and you do respect me, otherwise you wouldn't take the time to respond, over and over again. But you do care, just as I do, because I do respond to you. I'm not going to hide that fact that, while I don't agree with you, I do think your ideas and thoughts should be known, but with a less inflammatory tone. Don't you agree? Don't you see how skek and EvaL are on the opposite spectrum, but can have a reasonable and non-inflammatory discussion? At the book signing I had a discussion with skek about how I think you are a very smart guy, but how I wish you could make your points in a less inflammatory way. Go ahead, ask him privately or publicly, he will confirm this.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but instead of spending my time (which, I have spent too much time in the past) on the intarwebs, I was contributing to the economy. I had some great sushi, a few drinks, and a great desert. While I have loved the time that I have spent in the past on the intarwebs, I am thankful I have somthing more than just my knowledge to contribute to society. I just hope others will do the same.
