tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21139816.post2917039219164401359..comments2023-10-25T09:08:19.361+01:00Comments on This good life goes on...: Dickly situationMephitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10989129223761426698noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21139816.post-88575116677381343282010-09-12T11:25:45.286+01:002010-09-12T11:25:45.286+01:00Well, PP, I wouldn't go so far as to say these...Well, PP, I wouldn't go so far as to say these people *insulted* the people at the church: it's not like they told everyone they were poo-poo heads or anything. The quotes were relatively innocuous, I felt, and would have only been seen by probably one person. But uncalled for and rude, yeah. Thanks for the linkage, btw.<br /><br />Abs, there's quite a funny site called 'trollcats' (dunno if you already know it) that's got some great troll descriptors :D. I think I'd be called a tone troll meself for this blog-post #shrug#. So be it. I love the concern trollcat, great eyebrows.Mephitishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989129223761426698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21139816.post-13748844946464274122010-09-09T12:15:11.675+01:002010-09-09T12:15:11.675+01:00Concern troll LOL! That's me. It's just ...Concern troll LOL! That's me. It's just that when people ask questions on the internet, and you're kind and polite enough to answer them, you find it quite unmannerly if the other person reads your answer and responds with insults. That's why I would walk away at that point. But also a lot of the time the whole thing got boring. You have to have a fresh perspective for this and I got too long in the tooth. The people who were up for polite and impersonal debates were rarer than hen's teeth. Good post. Abster xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21139816.post-74828453676021931492010-09-08T12:01:50.644+01:002010-09-08T12:01:50.644+01:00Very well said. It seems utterly pointless to do s...Very well said. It seems utterly pointless to do something like that, purely to cause offence. There's no point having a beef with the wrong people, and doing something which is only going to put up barriers and make everyone think you're a tosser.<br /><br />I had this experience repeatedly when I was working on the tram on display in Edinburgh. Most people seem reasonably impressed with the tram project, although they're frustrated about why it's taking so long to build (as am I). Anyway, on a fairly regular basis, people would come in and rant at some length about what a huge waste of money it was, how it was ruining the city, how it wasn't needed, how no-one wanted it, how it was making the crops fail* etc etc. Just how, exactly, was I supposed to respond to that? I obviously didn't agree, or I wouldn't be standing there doing the job. And what was I supposed to do? Say "Oh, I'm sorry, although I'm on a temporary contract at minimum wage and have no decision-making powers whatsoever, I'll go and cancel the project immediately?" Argh!<br /><br />I loathe Tesco with a passion and think that it's run by scum of the worst kind, but is it doing anything positive at all to rant at the check-out operators? Of course it's not!<br /><br />Yeah...it was good for atheists to go to church, as it shows an open-minded willingness to consider an alternative position. But it wasn't good just to insult the people there. How dumb that is, oh, how dumb. :( It makes them just as bad as the worst kind of fundies that they slag off, and just prevents any positive dialogue.<br /><br />It's why I loathe Dawkins, by the way - he's so aggressively hostile and insulting towards Christians that I just can't stomach his writing. He may be a great scientist, but he's a very unpleasant person in lots of ways. As soon as you raise the stakes like that, and get so confrontational, you immediately lose any moral authority you might have had, and will just make your opponents think you're a knob-end.<br /><br />But hey, Christians manage to shoot themselves in the foot all the time. Qu'ran burning, anyone? Gah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com