Share, evidently you do have a different take on it. I'm looking at my experiences day in and day out, and I'm feeling pretty healthy.
What you may see as ganging up, may be for other people, just sort of laughing at how ridiculous someone else can be. At this point, I'm not sure how serious anyone can take Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Steve, I don't mind when people confront turq one on one. But I really don't like it when the piling on and ganging up happens. Something about that seems very unhealthy to me, mainly for the people doing it. From: "steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good article by someone with more patience for theists than I have... A good question Share. Here's the short answer. There is a time for compassion to be shown, and a time to address BS head on. I am bothered by the continual mis-perceptions Barry throws out here, and feel compelled to address them. Pretty much as simple as that. That, and the fact that I think he is mean person, with no self awareness in that regard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Steve and Fleetwood, if you really think this way, then why not show some compassion? From: "fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 6:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good article by someone with more patience for theists than I have... My conclusion too, Steve. He sounds very disturbed, in the paragraph below. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : or possibly that something is seriously broken in your life. I don't think I'd discount that possibility. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : One of the reasons I speak in such a derogatory way about God-believers here is that I figure after centuries of them putting down non-believers all the time (not to mention killing them, burning them at the stake, etc.) they should get a taste of their own medicine. That, and the fact that I really DO consider many God-believers pretty much as stupid as I say they are. :-) But every so often, it's probably good to present the point of view of a more balanced atheist who has more compassion for the idiots trying to shout him down than I have. Consider this my contribution to FFL in this respect...