--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Barry, you're far and away the most consistently
> uptight person on this forum.  You simply cannot
> tolerate disagreement with your views.

Yeah, right, Judy. Like the "discussion over
wine" I had with Curtis the other day, the one
in which we held completely opposite viewpoints
on karma, but in which there was no uptightness
or intolerance. Or, at least there wasn't until
you tried to barge into the discussion and turn 
it *into* an argument, calling my opinion "a 
'false reading' of what karma as determinism 
implies. You probably noticed that we both 
ignored you, because we were having a mutually
respectful discussion, and you wanted to turn
it into something else. :-)

I've had similar on-opposite-sides-of-the-
philosophical-fence with many others here.
It's *you* who has to turn every disagreement
on *matters of opinion* into a head-to-head
argument, Judy. It's *you* who is threatened
when someone believes something different than
you do, and who feels compelled to argue over 
it, often calling the other party a "coward"
or worse when they don't feel like arguing. 
And it's *you* who usually claims to have "won" 
those arguments, when you've managed to drag
the discussion down to the level of argument-
ation, or who even claims to have "won" when
the other person just ignores you.

And again, I doubt that there are many here 
who would disagree with this assessment of you.



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