I probably shouldn't even dignify this with a response, but here goes.
In the second post of this thread you wrote the following:
Now let's be clear here, that's a lot of judgments we've already thrown around about athiests.
Chad asked for some clarification as to why you applied all of those adjectives to athiests and asked for a way to distinguish athiests from other belief systems in how they apply to those qualities. You had already responded to him once by repeating the same series of epithets in combination with athiests.Personally, I thought he was taking you a bit too seriously given that your rhetoric was obviously overblown, so I stepped in when he asked for elaboration a second time.
I've been 15 before. I remember speaking that way because having overly strong opinions is impressive to your peers. I get it. But if Chad had known who he was talking to (I suspect, he can correct me if I'm wrong) he wouldn't have asked for clarification because he would have seen it for what it was. You see, Chad's been 15 before too. That's why I wrote that you didn't actually mean anything (after all, your stream was just a bunch of nonsense words when thrown together in that combination) and that you said it because it impresses your "idiot friends." Now that may have been too harsh. I don't really know any of your friends. I have no ability to determine which ones are idiots and which ones aren't (although I'd be stunned if you didn't think some of them were idiots too). What I was really going for was that "this kind of rhetoric is a product of his age, and the usual audience is a bunch of other people his age. You wouldn't take demographic and social commentary seriously from a 15 year old under any other circumstance, because they usually don't know anything, and this isn't the time to start." Hence my final point. "Just ignore him."
If I am guilty of slandering all 15 year olds everywhere for being less knowledgable than the adults so be it. I'll cop to it. I'll even assert the defense of truth. If any of your friends read that statement and are convinced that I'm speaking about them personally I'll be happy to speak with them about it.
Your statements are of a very different kind. They are obviously applicable to a specific person who has had her picture posted across the board several times. A person that also reads the board and is aware of statements that you are making about her, a fact that I made you aware of in the hopes that you would have a better understanding as to why your escalation was inappropriate and hurtful to another person who has never engaged you.
The assertion that it's somehow my fault that you would call a third person ugly and fat is ridiculous. You are your own person. Those are your words. That's who you are, silly colors, fonts and repeated punctuation marks included.
In the second post of this thread you wrote the following:
Now let's be clear here, that's a lot of judgments we've already thrown around about athiests.
Chad asked for some clarification as to why you applied all of those adjectives to athiests and asked for a way to distinguish athiests from other belief systems in how they apply to those qualities. You had already responded to him once by repeating the same series of epithets in combination with athiests.Personally, I thought he was taking you a bit too seriously given that your rhetoric was obviously overblown, so I stepped in when he asked for elaboration a second time.
I've been 15 before. I remember speaking that way because having overly strong opinions is impressive to your peers. I get it. But if Chad had known who he was talking to (I suspect, he can correct me if I'm wrong) he wouldn't have asked for clarification because he would have seen it for what it was. You see, Chad's been 15 before too. That's why I wrote that you didn't actually mean anything (after all, your stream was just a bunch of nonsense words when thrown together in that combination) and that you said it because it impresses your "idiot friends." Now that may have been too harsh. I don't really know any of your friends. I have no ability to determine which ones are idiots and which ones aren't (although I'd be stunned if you didn't think some of them were idiots too). What I was really going for was that "this kind of rhetoric is a product of his age, and the usual audience is a bunch of other people his age. You wouldn't take demographic and social commentary seriously from a 15 year old under any other circumstance, because they usually don't know anything, and this isn't the time to start." Hence my final point. "Just ignore him."
If I am guilty of slandering all 15 year olds everywhere for being less knowledgable than the adults so be it. I'll cop to it. I'll even assert the defense of truth. If any of your friends read that statement and are convinced that I'm speaking about them personally I'll be happy to speak with them about it.
Your statements are of a very different kind. They are obviously applicable to a specific person who has had her picture posted across the board several times. A person that also reads the board and is aware of statements that you are making about her, a fact that I made you aware of in the hopes that you would have a better understanding as to why your escalation was inappropriate and hurtful to another person who has never engaged you.
The assertion that it's somehow my fault that you would call a third person ugly and fat is ridiculous. You are your own person. Those are your words. That's who you are, silly colors, fonts and repeated punctuation marks included.
