21-03-2013, 05:01 PM
Thank you, Lauren, for your sincere effort to end the madness.
Here are my problems with it:
1. This thread never was intended to be a "discussion" between Josephs and me. If I were to go along with your suggestion, I would be facilitating the removal from consideration of a valid and, if I may, important hypothesis.
I shall not be party to such a disruption -- one that would have been prompted by what in effect, if not in fact, is enemy action.
2. I shall not support what in my opinion is the erroneous notion that Josephs' discharges are worthy of my attention or response.
So let me propose a working compromise: Barring his posting of libelous material and/or outright lies, I'll pledge never again to respond to Josephs (on this thread) and what in my Constitutionally protected opinion are his simplistic and ego-driven distractions, if you and all other readers pledge to apply to Josephs' posts -- including the likely, soon-to-appear "CD is evading the issue" nonsense -- your full powers of deep political analysis.
Here are my problems with it:
1. This thread never was intended to be a "discussion" between Josephs and me. If I were to go along with your suggestion, I would be facilitating the removal from consideration of a valid and, if I may, important hypothesis.
I shall not be party to such a disruption -- one that would have been prompted by what in effect, if not in fact, is enemy action.
2. I shall not support what in my opinion is the erroneous notion that Josephs' discharges are worthy of my attention or response.
So let me propose a working compromise: Barring his posting of libelous material and/or outright lies, I'll pledge never again to respond to Josephs (on this thread) and what in my Constitutionally protected opinion are his simplistic and ego-driven distractions, if you and all other readers pledge to apply to Josephs' posts -- including the likely, soon-to-appear "CD is evading the issue" nonsense -- your full powers of deep political analysis.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene