Self Policing Militia Summons

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I wish you'd refuted points. His post seemed completely reasonable to me, and yours just called him insane. Not so much an easy laugh as a WTF.
You don't read his posts, but you know he doesn't talk about his personal life enough, but you don't want to know anything about him. You don't like the lack of real discussion in the politics forum, but you won't argue politics or ideas with one of the frequent posters in that forum. You call BigV's worldview insane, but this seems a bit schizophrenic.And now BigV should "go back" somewhere. Like he isn't a real Dwellar.

I can't go back and do that now. BigV went through this thread and selected things to comment on. I saw it as exacerbating the already tense situation. (I was hesitant to reply to this post for that very reason....but I am only because it's you asking)I recognize that I'm the one that began this thread, but it is quite obvious that I'm not alone in my views.....no more alone than you and redux are.

I can see your side of this. To me, it seems that because you agree politically with redux, you are more apt to see him as a real being. Or maybe it's not because of politics at all. Maybe you honestly think that he contributes something worth while.

I said I don't read his posts.... i did say that. And I don't. I tried a few times... But now I get the impression that he just has his political point of view and offers the same counterpoint to the other political posters that I don't read. I never was much interested in politics. I have made my point about his and other people's domination of those forums. I'll let that stand.

as for telling BigV to go away? like he's not a real dwellar? Well, everyone has their own definition of a dwellar. My reaction there was to his saying that 'a little bird' told him to read this. (I wonder how spex feels about that) I imagine that he drops by occasionally at this point, but spends more time elsewhere. Maybe I'm way off there. In any event, I didn't like the arrogant way he posted his critique of how we were handling this when he is scarcely involved in the cellar. I won't say I'm subtle, but sometimes I make leaps and don't show my reasoning.

I hope we can let this issue settle down at some point and see if we've helped or hurt the atmosphere. Maybe.... If Merc, Classic, Redux and Spex can turn the spite knobs down from 11 to 7 or so..... we can all puull together as a team. I, for one will try not to bicker for more than 3 posts in a row! whaddaya say?! who's with me!?