Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   mea culpa Date:   8/25/2019 11:24:51 PM

“If I can’t make my point without disparaging other writers, then I doubt my observation/commentary has any validity or reliability.”

Would you say that the following is consistent with your comment?

5/192019

“johndoe apears to take vicariuos pleasure in being disruptive.  There is nothing of value in anything he posts. His posts have no meaningful content. In my mind, I have composed a picture of an insecure, middle aged, angry creature... of no intellectual foundation... who feasts upon himself.  He does not spew poison... he swims in it.”

What does his appearance have to do with his posts? He is actually quite educated but you just disagree with his opinion.

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I have to agree with your observation about my 5/192019 frustration with johndoe/gonefishing. That is EXACTLY why I don’t make an effort to log in. The semantics of johndoe/gonefishing (seem to me one in the same and) are distracting and disruptive. This is to say, they seem less designed to participate in debate… but, to disrupt debate.

It is difficult to carry on civil discourse when the signal to noise ratio is so low. In some of the postings, it gets far below 1:1. When I see that, I just don’t log in to the forum. That is precisely why I don’t post or reply very often.

Indeed… this reply to a barb directed at me… is a waste of time for me. I have learned nothing, have revealed no useful information, and do truly regret having displayed my irritation in my 5/192019 observation.

The interjections of disruptive and malevolent babble into a debate reminds me why some people should not have slingshots or BB guns. This comment is directed only at those who recognize themselves as the subject.

A true curmudgeon tries to confine his grumblings and discontented mumblings to addressing his adversaries without naming them… but making it pointedly clear that the schinola shoe does indeed fit when they try it on. I failed on the 19^th of May. I regret that.

- LMF Curmudgeon