Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00490)

I am going to leave it at what I have already said.

mkr

At 12:13 PM 8/30/1998 EDT, you wrote:
>MKR writes:
>>IMO Jake owes a public apology to Kym.
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>      Why didn't you ask for an apology to Sutratman also, then?
>        I believe the situation is quite the reverse.  I told the truth,
tried
>to defend someone with FACTS and a reasoned analysis (which no one else did)
>and Rilke, as usual, makes a post of petty ill-reasoned criticism and insult,
>which one almost has to respond to - thus a form of harrassment.
>     Also, we are supposed to be after truth here, and if one is so locked
>into popular politically correct opinions -- like those that refuse to
>acknowlege basic facts of femine psychology obvious to those that aren't too
>blind to see - then it is quite hopeless isn't it.
>      So MKR, if I were to repeat to you Rilke's quip to me, as a small
>example, and tell you: "Don't get your panties all in a bunch!,"  I
suppose it
>won't irritate you at all.    If one dishes it out all the time, and refuses
>to take the same dished back to them..... well this is hardly even fair on
the
>gradeschool playground rules that seem to dominate  here sometimes ( and
>gradeschoolers aren't very fair, nor can they think too well.)
>         If you look through Rilke's posts, you will see that her main
>motivation is not philosophical, but just to irritate and largely to pettily
>and ill-reasonably criticise (as well as a delight in being clever for
>cleverness sake itself), which is hardly a positive trait.
>                  -  Jake J.
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