From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 10:00 PM 6/6/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >I have been informed today that I have been plonked by one of the > >listmembers. Which listmember is irrelivant. > > > >The listmember informed me that my "intollerance" was reminiscent of Jeroen. > >When I recently rejoined the list, I sensed apprehension and fear from some > >list members at my return. I assumed I was just reading more into the > >messages than was there, and in all likelyhood the fear and apprehension was > >my own. Was I wrong? Are there listmembers that are affraid of me here? > >Do my posts seem intollerant? All opinions welcome, both on-list or off. > >I will not hold what is said against anyone. If enough people express a > >desire for me to leave I will do so and never return. The last thing I want > >is to make people uncomfortable. > > > >Michael Harney > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Wait, wait. I know it wasn't me who plonked you, and of course you know it > wasn't me either. The whole list knows, if you had plonked me, you wouldn't have recieved my message to send this reply. > Look, seriously this is what happened and I'm not saying this as an excuse: > I had 40 minutes between getting home from one job and leaving for my > second. So I throw something in the microwave (broccoli, honest!) and skim > some posts while eating. I'm bouncing between threads and for the cancer > thread it seemed to be Julie (kidding!), Michael, Andrew, and Michael > again. My mind rolled those together and I (me, myself, all the voices in > my head) thought you were lumping all the bad things that could happen to > meat while it was on the hoof and the troubles that lead from that. My mind > latched on it and thought of all the bad things that have been said about > vegetables. So I typed out my post and sent it. > > Then I shut off the monitor, cleaned up, changed, and went out to drive my > convertible to work on the one sunny day we are allowed a week. The car > wouldn't start and I didn't have enough time to jump start it. > > > So. I get home and find I mis-read your post to Julie (can't resist!). You > were saying...forgetting all of the other stuff, no matter what cooked meat > will have more cancer causing agents than vegetables. And I've been sitting > here for a few hours, doing other things admittedly, wondering in the back > of my mind "Does it matter?" That is understandable. I have misread a few posts myself in the past. > Oh heck, I was going to post more but the answer is it doesn't matter. I > don't want you to go anywhere. I wasn't trying to say bad things. I read > something and responded. I'm sorry if you think I've caused you some harm. > Wait! I don't want that to sound bad.....just from now on, you can say > whatever you like, about eating meat, and I won't respond. You didn't cause me any harm... I just don't like talking about the subject of vegetarianism unless someone is genuinely interested in hearing about it because I know it won't end well. It doesn't help that I haven't been sleeping well the last few days, so I haven't been feeling very well. Tiredness tends to make me very emotional, so I become easily hurt and easily angered. Respond if you want to my posts, but please be a little more dilligent in reading a post before posting a reply to make sure the post(s) you are replying to say what you think they said and that your response is appropriate to what was said. The information I posted wasn't to militantly promote vegetarianism, only to suggest a hypothesis as to why cancer rates are higher in industrial rather than developing nations. > Now if you'd say, Red Sox's rule, Yankee's drool, then I'll have to jump on > you with both feet. I'm not a fan of sports, so that will never happen. :-) Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
