From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 11:11:18 MDT
On 23 Sep 2002 at 4:24, kharin wrote:
>
> "However, I now feel that I have somehow contributed to the virtual
> destruction of the Church as a worthwhile vehicle by encouraging back
> to engagement someone who appears to be not quite well, and who
> apparently has the time and the inclination to engage in that
> destruction."
>
> The blame is not yours alone. I fear I was responsible for pointing
> out to Joe some of the sources he has been barraging the list with
> ever since. As a contribution to debate and critically considered this
> sources were essentially harmless. When seized on and clutched with
> fervour and desperation more befitting holy writ they become
> essentially inimical to the interests of this list and to Joe
> individually.
>
> I have many issues with Hermit's behaviour of late. I felt his
> behaviour in banning Jonathan from IRC was wrong, and that his
> rudeness to Casey was unfair. The comment regarding Joe's mother was
> in a similar vein. However, it cannot be forgotten that that was long
> after Hermit has been subjected to torrents of unmerited abuse from
> Joe; torrents of hysterical unhinged ranting that cannot tolerate
> dissent or refrain from obsessive compulsive gnawing of the same bone,
> long after all others were trying to avoid the entire subject. The
> tone of all this may most accurately be described as McCarthyite. In
> comparison to all of that, it seems impossible to reach any conclusion
> other than that Hermit was much more sinned against than sinning.
>
You forgot to mention his discriminatory BBS cartoon conduct. And any
abuse I directed at Hermit was in return for abuse he had directed at
me, it was therefore, in my opinion, entirely tit-for-tat merited and
warranted. And Hermit's posting of 13 (!) pages on the BBS on his
particular slant on the same subject does not amount to obsessive-
compulsive gnawing? C'mon! Plus, Hermit is not one to himself
magnanimously tolerate dissent; I became the object of his nasty wrath
precisely BECAUSE I persisted in not only dissenting from his view, but
also doing so effectively.
>
> I now await my denunciation by Senator Dees as being an Un-American
> minion.
>
None forthcoming here. Everyone is entitled to their opinions; no one is
entitled to assert them as Holy Writ.
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