--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > From a casual lurker perspective, I was tempted to weigh in > for the Ravi Alex gay bash video. I felt the intention was > off my scale of acceptable. Ravi may have used his abrasiveness > to bash someone for some higher purpose known only to himself > in the past, but I sensed a shift toward using people as > emotional punching bags in a way I do not appreciate.
Nice turn of phrase, Curtis. This "shift" is why I have taken the approach of "tactical ignoring" with a few people here. What I've noticed for some time is that there are some people on this forum who not only feel that they have the right to use the people whose ideas they don't like as punching bags, they actually seem to feel that their victims "owe it to them" to punch back. I owe them nothing. Nada. Zip. Bupkus. They can say anything about me they want, and chances are (for the 6 people on my "written off as bad bets" list) I'll never even see what they write. This seems to piss them off no end, because what they seem to want is for me to take what they write -- and them -- seriously, and "get into it" with them, in some head-to-head argument that they can then imagine they "won." Not gonna happen. For the record, among the six folks I've thus written off, some are for the reason I mentioned yesterday -- I think they're mentally ill. I just don't interact with the mentally ill; I have neither the training nor the inclination to do so. The others are just boring, and thus of no interest. >From my point of view, based on the increase of Barry-bashing since I've adopted this stance, ignoring them angers them and gets under their skin more than anything else I could possibly do, and that suits me just fine. :-) If they're so petty that they feel they have to build their online lives around "getting back at me" or "getting me," let them live in that grudge mindset all they want. I don't have to. As some smart church sign once said: [https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/316066_24\ 72128527643_1385286013_32874188_1019965985_n.jpg] > I believe in the freedom of using sexual material here in > the form of celebrating that physical love between two > consenting adults is one of the most beautiful, precious, > wonderful, heart-healing, life-affirming, actual miracles... > > ...that money can buy. Good line, original or not. :-) Thanks for dropping in. Hope you feel like doing so again, hopefully on more interesting topics.
