March 2013 Screwballs

[Teallaura]

Okay, Spidey. We can't all be web-swingers - so expecting it is pretty dumb. Don't do the Prof X thing, either - so if you needed help why didn't you tell anyone?

No one wronged you - you didn't tell us you needed us. I wish you had because I still like you and even if I didn't, I would have wanted to help a brother in Christ.

If you really think acting like a wounded junk yard dog makes you a better, truer Christian you lost a lot more than a few fights.

Take it as intended - not an apology because you aren't owed one and not an excuse because none is necessary. Just a simple explanation of the only thing that requires it - why no one responded to something they didn't know about.

You've said you won't accept apology so I presume that to mean you'd rather stew in your indignation than even consider that you might be wrong. I pity you that - life's too short to waste it like that. But I won't waste time with words you won't let yourself understand either - so I leave you with one final bit of truth - I will be praying for you.

[Epoetker]

Okay, Spidey. We can't all be web-swingers - so expecting it is pretty dumb. Don't do the Prof X thing, either - so if you needed help why didn't you tell anyone?

I don't need a League of High-IQ true-er Christian Managerialist Careerist superstars when high-IQ post-Christian managerialism is the problem to begin with. (And the general blank-slatist denial that IQ matters in the first place.) I only need clean hands, clear minds, and pure hearts. The process of purification is fairly simple: wait for a thought or word that conflicts with the Word (preferably a bedrock one that has gone traditionally unchallenged for years,) then shine the fire of Scripture, human reason, and history on it. When the wounded psyche then calls out for defenders, who will then use other conflicting and double-minded arguments, shine that fire on them too. Eventually they run out of faulty arguments or caffeine, and the truth of the nature of their positions shows in either in the discussion or the angry individual reappraisal of their failure. If they will not admit the truth during the debate, perhaps their post-loss angry search of the Internet for newer authors and cleverer arguments will cause them to see the truth in a different way, from a different author.

War, more than anything else, impels innovation and teaches the soldier the actual, not imagined, limits of his current and future understandings of reality, and humbles him in realizing what he can and can't demand of his fellow soldiers.

No one wronged you - you didn't tell us you needed us. I wish you had because I still like you and even if I didn't, I would have wanted to help a brother in Christ.

Don't inject 'need' arguments into 'truth' arguments, that tends to make me more apathetic than angry. I have not received arguments so much as exhortations to stop being so mean, and that so far sounds indistinguishable from "It's too HARD to think about that!"

If you really think acting like a wounded junk yard dog makes you a better, truer Christian you lost a lot more than a few fights.

There are plenty of fights to be had in a war. There is no substitute for eventual victory, and that victory can only come when the highest truth is written on the most hearts.

Take it as intended - not an apology because you aren't owed one and not an excuse because none is necessary. Just a simple explanation of the only thing that requires it - why no one responded to something they didn't know about.

I'm here only to increase understanding of the necessary battles, equip people for them, and fight in them as needed. Unfortunately, that involves hot-swapping faulty information processors in the middle of smaller skirmishes. Like a team of nurses getting a catheter into a screaming 2-year old in an emergency room, it's an ugly and socially embarrassing spectacle, but ultimately necessary for a continued and better life.

You've said you won't accept apology so I presume that to mean you'd rather stew in your indignation than even consider that you might be wrong. I pity you that - life's too short to waste it like that. But I won't waste time with words you won't let yourself understand either - so I leave you with one final bit of truth - I will be praying for you.

Thank you.

[Darth Executor]

Okay, Spidey. We can't all be web-swingers - so expecting it is pretty dumb. Don't do the Prof X thing, either - so if you needed help why didn't you tell anyone?

No one wronged you - you didn't tell us you needed us.

I could be wrong but I think he's referring to tweb (and many other places' ) ban on certain topics of conversation. For example I remember wanting to discuss the ethics of assassinating abortionists but the discussion was banned (I believe the reasoning given was that tweb didn't want to risk a lawsuit if someone read a post here and decided to go out and shoot an abortionist). Many other web sites are much worse than that, so what happens is that all the people who want to discuss unpopular topics end up in places where just about anything goes. The end result is that many of these people end up more radicalized, and then they radicalize others who have been sheltered from such discussions and are thus ill equipped to answer their arguments. Then there is the flip side, namely that some radical positions unacceptable in polite society are true.

[Teallaura]

I could be wrong but I think he's referring to tweb (and many other places' ) ban on certain topics of conversation. For example I remember wanting to discuss the ethics of assassinating abortionists but the discussion was banned (I believe the reasoning given was that tweb didn't want to risk a lawsuit if someone read a post here and decided to go out and shoot an abortionist). Many other web sites are much worse than that, so what happens is that all the people who want to discuss unpopular topics end up in places where just about anything goes. The end result is that many of these people end up more radicalized, and then they radicalize others who have been sheltered from such discussions and are thus ill equipped to answer their arguments. Then there is the flip side, namely that some radical positions unacceptable in polite society are true.

Was this while I was away? He keeps talking as if I was on staff at the time but I don't recall anything like this. I remember someone being modded for proposing violence against abortionists once but I don't recall your thread (when I was on staff I reviewed most reports as part of my job) so I'm wondering if this was while I was gone.

[Teallaura]

I don't need a League of High-IQ true-er Christian Managerialist Careerist superstars when high-IQ post-Christian managerialism is the problem to begin with. ....

You said we didn't help you when you needed it - but when did you ever tell us - or me - you needed our help?

I was gone for nearly three years - I can only think of one thing that might have indicated a problem while I was still on staff and at the time I thought the two people involved (you and an owner) were having a personal disagreement. Other than that I can't figure out any warning that you were having trouble. So if I missed it for that I apologize.

If DE is right then I didn't know about it.

[Darth Executor]

Was this while I was away? He keeps talking as if I was on staff at the time but I don't recall anything like this. I remember someone being modded for proposing violence against abortionists once but I don't recall your thread (when I was on staff I reviewed most reports as part of my job) so I'm wondering if this was while I was gone.

I didn't mean Epo was involved in that particular case, it was just an example.

[fm93]

I'm posting in the March screwballs thread in April. I feel like such a rebel.

[rogue06]

Closed. Please go to the April thread