Disagreements

The BBQ Pit
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I wish someone could help me to understand this board because I really don’t understand. People come here, get asked questions, and then get pitted because people don’t like their honest answers. What’s going on? Is everyone so insecure that unless everyone that comes in agrees with them, they can’t stand it or what? You can make of this whatever you wish, but I read Jersey’s post where she answered the question put to her and I saw nothing wrong in her answer. Yet, in response, I’ve seen all kinds of vile name calling and demands for apologies and whatever in response to her. Is this the way mature adults act when they have disagreements?

You can shout me down or make whatever insults you like, but I see no respect here for differences of opinion. No mature discussions and no attitude of “let’s agree to disagree on this and move on to something else.” What gives? All the hateful spueing isn’t coming from the conservative Christians on the board, it’s coming from those who can’t stand to hear an opposing viewpoint.

If you don’t want honest answers to questions you pose to people, then quit asking them. If you don’t like the answers you get, show some maturity and stop resorting to foul language and name calling. That’s my opinion. I’m sorry but many of you remind me of a bunch of little kids throwing hissy fits. No offense intended but that’s how I see it. Get real and accept the fact that everyone has their own opinions about things and it’s not always going to agree with yours. People can disagree in a non threatening, nice way. I’ve been on boards where they do it.

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I don’t know if you are being disingenuous, or if you just do not have the capacity to understand what has been going on thus far.

Jersey’s was not an honest answer. It was one rife with condemnation and personal criticism.

When taken to task for it, she was smarmy and smug. When Joe_Cool entered the fray, it was more vitriol in support of his wife, right or wrong.

Then you joined in with your hair shirt and the martyrdom again.

You say there are other boards which live up to your standards. Why are you not there if this board is not to your liking?

3

Which one is the commandment that says “Thou shalt not lie”?

4

Ya know, when Lynn locks a thread it doesn’t mean go ahead and open another to continue bashing the topic.

Idiot.

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For someone who stormed off and left, she sure posts alot.

Also repeating a lie over and over again doesn’t actually make it true. It just makes you annoying. Also opening a thread on the same basic issue as a just closed one makes you something else as well. I think we all know what that word is.

:rolleyes:

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Conservative Christians, not hateful nor spewing. All of that coming from the other side. Gottcha.

Geez, I just wish someone had told me that earlier, you know. Here I was reading the board and I had it compleeeeeetely the other way around. Glad you got me straight on that one.

I bet those bastards would throw their hateful spewing words at my army of invisible green friends riding on rollerblades made out of poptarts if they only could see them. Damn now I’ve told them about them haven’t I? Damn damn damn, got to run now….

putting tinfoil hat on and running out the door

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You two need to back off on those claims. What you are saying might be valid if it was the same poster opening another thread, but in this case it clearly isn’t.

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And, to save future nitpicking, it’s a different topic as well.

9

Uh no, really. I am pretty certain when Lynn closes a thread she means for it to stop regardless of who opens another one.

10

Different in what way?

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Well, I see Joe_Cool was man enough to post an apology for his actions.

I’m still looking for Kalhoun’s apology for calling his wife garbage and a cunt.

I’ll probably be looking for a while.

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Fine. Channel Lynn.

Can I play? Can I pretend to be Ed?

How’s it a different topic? Because it asks a specific question:

“I wish someone could help me to understand this board because I really don’t understand. People come here, get asked questions, and then get pitted because people don’t like their honest answers.”

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You get a lot of people butting heads because on one side you’ve got people with strong opinions due to matters of faith, and on the other side, people with strong opinions due to proven facts. Neither side is inherently better or more correct, but they both feel strongly about their stance on issues. They are also overwhelminly resistant to arguments from the other side, because the other side isn’t arguing from faith or fact, whichever is most important to the defender.

Hope that made sense.

14

You’re drooling again Ace.

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Apology, was it? Oh. I thought it was just a self-serving load of horseshit. But, since you say it was an apology…

Ace, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, calling it foie gras doesn’t make a lick of difference.

But that was just Kalhoun’s honest opinion! No offense intended!

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No, no, Diane, this is a different topic, really. That thread was the “Jersey Diamond/Joe Cool Flamefest” and this one will be the “His4Ever Flamefest”. Different, see? :smiley:

Link to the other thread referenced in the OP, since the OP didn’t bother, just in case anybody cares, which I doubt.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174685&pagenumber=5

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Sure, if you enjoy dressing in big white old lady underpants, fishnet stockings, dirty wifebeater tanks, and walk around scratching your ball sack.

:eek: Don’t hurt me Ed.

18

See, now you’re just being silly.

Everyone knows Ed prefers thongs.

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Is it possible that you could ever be wrong about something? Is that a remote possibility?

Totally agree, but I’m looking at your condemning posts when I say that.

That’s not true, here’s the thing: Just because you won’t admit you are spewing hatred does not mean you aren’t.

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You miss the poinjt of this board’s raison d’etre. The SDMB is a froum for debate and the eradication of ignorance where a certain amount of give and take is expected and cites and evidence are required to back up assertions.

But you don’t do that. You makle unfounded assertions about gays, Mormons, Catholics, and so on, and then when challenged, you say, “This is what the Bible says and I won’t discuss it.” Your mind is utterly closed to any worldview save your own.