indie wrote:1. You hijacked a topic onto a totally irrelevant issue.
I...I...hijacked a topic? Mad posted about the abortion issue and I responded by saying I did not think it was correct. It could have ended there...Mad then responded...and we were off. Why is it just me that gets the blame?
indie wrote:2. You ignored two requests to go start your own topic about that issue.
I do NOT see any direct request for ME to start another topic. Do you? Anyone else could have also started another topic at those points...but it is ME, and me alone, that gets the tag of the donkey, huh?
indie wrote:3. You post 2, 3, 4 times in a row, until you manage to goad someone into responding.
I respond as I do to keep each topic as isolated as possible and when there are separate posters. Also, I usually need to post between other activities and always by default hit new posts. I was not goading by posting. Keep trying. Lastly, I have done this forever at booktalk because I hate loooong single posts. Everyone who has BEEN here knows this about me.
indie wrote:4. You attack the wording of a post rather than the meaning, senseless nitpicking when the meaning is rather obvious.
We have always had lengthy discussions of semantics here within topics. I am not the only one who does this.
indie wrote:5. You attack the man not the issue.
Any instances? I tried hard throughout not to attack Niall maliciously.
indie wrote:Whining about the title of the topic rather than addressing the content. Whining about a single "fuck" used for emphasis, (and then tell me to screw myself.)
The point of that was because this all started off about polemicizing the issue using specific words!!! Do you not see the irony in that? Anyway, to have a topic subject like that for what I, at least, consider a serious discussion is bad form.
I told you to screw yourself because you bowed out of the discussion and then came back only to show me up and insult me. As I said, I have put alot into this community. I support it and Chris and I have been a regular and quality contributor here for over 3 years. You stepped over the line by inserting nothing but an attack on me when I do not think I deserved it.
misterpessimistic wrote:What were you trying to prove?
indie wrote:You seem to be the one trying to prove something. What, I really can't fathom. It isn't like this is a winnable argument.
So there is no hope of ever resolving this issue, in your opinion. So what do we do, ignore it and let it fester? I am trying to prove that my, and others, POV is valid and that we are not "Pro-Abortion" as Niall DID indeed suggest.
Speak to me directly from now on if you can. No slap in the face posts to others with a message intended for me, huh? Show some spine. At least everyone else, whether we lock horns or not, has always treated me with respect outside of a heated discussion. Whaddaya think?
Mr. P.