Maybe We Should Try

[bonnie]

With the concern as to how to deal with the political forum,a good place might be with conduct of moderators.

Whether this is moderated or not,they should be an example and conduct themselves according to that which they would like to see.

Maybe a few quotes would be a handy reference......

Neil issuing a challenge as to how he perceives this forum.

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There is sooooooo much to say about side tracking the issue here...Thoughts of how these rhetorical questions, straw man arguement from the opposition is less than gracious.....Bonnie, all I got to say about this is this...If this is getting too hot for you, time to get out of the kitchen...

Now Neil chooses to call personal family relationships into question. People that he does not know and more than likely he will never meet.

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Your loss in assuming a global understanding of what I have said and your oppertunity, which you continue to fail in building internet relationships. You want honesty, well, you have always had it....but it makes no impression to you ....Your lack of trust is only surpassed by your continued undermining any sort of internet behavior. Your evidence of 'good' relationships with your family can not be seen by those of us on the internet, and therefore have to believe from the evidence of your posts show contrary evidence of your familial relationship.

Here is Neil again,speaking for the forum I would assume with the word "we"

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My point is that YOU brought YOUR family here as an example of how good your relationship with family members. Since family are humans [i hope and assume], your relationship on the internet is qustionable at best. Since we see what you do here, we question your claim of a excellent relationship with family members....We make no claim against your family, only you.

And if you want to settle this dispute, what do you want?

Nothing is not an option....You want something while discussing things on this forum...What is it?

I did not bring any family relationship into this discussion for the collective "we" to decide what my relationship might be

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In your case, you need that talking down...You have been very haunty, rude to me on many an occassion, even when I have been very nice toward you....And I still get the "you stink, Neil" posts. Such rudeness needs to be called for what it is... an undermining of the process of building internet relationships... A plain unfriendliness, even outright hostility FOR NO APPARENT REASON.

If you got rudenss from me, [and, I admit, you have] you had better check your message that I was replying to....your bad manners were plain...in every case.So remember, YOU started it. Your sassiness was a glaring example of what not to do in attempting to build internet relationships. Your distain of various progressives is a shining example of what NOT to be as an adventist.

Your mistatments are only used to attract attention toward yourself....Guess what? I ain't interested in satisfying your need for dysfuctional relationships....I've enough of them in my own life...Don't need that at all and definately don't need to add to the dysfunctional relationships of the world.....

Again Neil is speaking for the "collective we"

Maybe as moderators in general you might decide against this type of comment

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Oooh, brother...are you real, Bonnie? Republicans moving to the left???? You ARE joking, right? 'Cus you are looking pretty stupid or are soooooo far right, that ANYTHING/EVERYTHING looks left to you....making you an extreemist, even for an conservative SDA....

On second thought, don't answer anything here....it's not worth the board going thru another war....

There are many more. But this might be a good starting point

Given that generally speaking you come to me this is a rather odd comment

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Why are you here? If you want NO relationship, then why are you here? If you want NO relationship, why do you get involved in MY threads? For that matter, why get involved in ANY thread?

Oh lest we forget to give Bravus his due a sample of his creative writing.

This is also a moderator I believe.

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I really do think it is time to just disengage from this crazy, humorless woman. All the points she made about the KKK platform are confused and utterly miss the point. She is living in a fantasy land of bitterness, hate and fear.

Bravus of course denied it had a personal connotation,andtrying to make it a general statement as to "humorless,crazy woman"

Using the word "this" does tell a different story.

My dad always said to be wary of educated fools. He was not against education,only how some use it.

If I said in reference to bravus,"this educated fool"

There would not be the slightest doubt as to what I meant.

I wasn't complaining as to what had been said,but it seems the minute Stan pops into view a lot of people have this' get religion quick" attitude.Wonder why that is