Comments on: Guest post: A change in perspective

By: gdad

gdad — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:51:10 +0000

And whining by Leon.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:19:15 +0000

21.I’ve made an executive decision here and decided that anybody is allowed to add a Q or a Z or an X to anyone’s “handle” (or actual name) here on the blog. It’s not necessarily demeaning, preventing which was the purpose of the original rule.

Comment by Dan Casey — December 20, 2012 @ 6:36 pm

“Original rule” = EPIC FAIL. Nice Lypocrisy Dan!

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:08:14 +0000

J.M. White, one thing, leading with my heart is not to say that I “react by pure emotion”. It just means that I specifically try to think within the realm of ramifications as well as what needs to be done. Making a decision on what to do has to include how it will affect others, the situation, the long and short term effects and the repercussions. I do not think it is fair to claim a decision is pure emotion or “emotional”, just because a person uses their heart in the equation.

I guess this “exercise” is just too daunting for me to comprehend, but tell me how many of them are right wingers and I may have the key…

By: gdad

gdad — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:58:11 +0000

“Dang typos.”

The e and the q are quite close to each other on the keyboard.

By: gdad

gdad — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:56:20 +0000

“So, the Civility Summit was pretty much as I said; intended to stifle Suzie and no one else.”

It was intended to cause more unseemly whining by suzie.

It worked.

By: mike o

mike o — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:00:13 +0000

J.M.
I did not “assume” anything. I tried to understand your “premise”.
Frankly, and unfortunately your “premise” is silly. Good and fun for thought, but useless in reality.

By: J.M. White

J.M. White — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:57:58 +0000

So, the Civility Summit was pretty much as I said; intended to stifle Suzie and no one else.

Comment by Suzie — December 20, 2012 @ 8:12 pm

OH NOES! She’s figured it all out, Dan! You know, because having a big confab and establishing criteria for civility on the blog is so much easier than just banning one troublemaker. /sarc

Suzie, you flatter yourself so much that it should be considered a form of abuse.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:12:03 +0000

I’ve made an executive decision here and decided that anybody is allowed to add a Q or a Z or an X to anyone’s “handle” (or actual name) here on the blog. It’s not necessarily demeaning, preventing which was the purpose of the original rule.

Gdad said he doesn’t consider “Granddad” an insult, yet I was specifically forbidden from using it.

So, the Civility Summit was pretty much as I said; intended to stifle Suzie and no one else.

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:58:26 +0000

Dan KZ!

By: J.M. White

J.M. White — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:29:48 +0000

Shrillary: facetious or not, you provided a viable answer. I very purposely left the construct of the observer open to interpretation (you could be god, alien or a just a really powerful guardian. For example: I didn’t preclude anyone from creating carbon copies of the island to scatter the excess population. You are free to do as you wish with your excess people.
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Sandi: I was merely asking the reader to step outside of themselves for a moment – to view the world with different eyes. There was nothing wrong with your answer; I just wanted you to clarify how you arrived at it. I know you “lead with your heart” and that’s why I wondered how you would react to the piece as I wrote it. I’ve always admired the passion you show on this blog. Myself, I’m a fixer and a problem solver and the people that love me tend to look to me in times of crisis, so I tend to push emotion to the side and let logic guide me. I used to react by pure emotion and it got me into a lot of trouble, so I found a better way. It’s thought experiments like these that keep me sharp and slow me down long enough to let cooler heads prevail. They help me get out of my own head for a minute.
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Suzie: Thanks for stopping by. Since you’ve expressed a recent interest in my sex life and no interest in participating in my post, I thought I’d take the time here to give you an update: it’s fantastic! I’m “taking care of business” so often that God will surely give me a high-five before he casts me into the fiery depths of Hell… I do hope you’ll pray for me. I know I should be ashamed, but sex is just so darned much… fun.
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mike o: you assume that the observer didn’t just stumble upon this world in its current state. You could even cull the population as slaves for some task(s) elsewhere. In this situation, the past is irrelevant.