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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rob,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For a little background: You directed your insults my
direction not long ago, but in more direct fashion. You and I were
friends. I had you over to my house for dinner. I employed you and
we worked together a bit. We talked about business, your life aspirations,
your current work, your history. I offered you nothing but kindness and
hospitality. Then one day I started a web site and I was criticizing your
pastor’s slander of another minister—continuing an already public
discussion. You jumped on without any notice or private communication and
began mocking me, ridiculing sincere comments, and intentionally breaking the
very rules I laid out for posting to my private web site. This response here is
the first time you have treated me like a human being, and you have not
initiated any private correspondence with me throughout all this. Not
only is this not Christian behavior, this is not sociological normal within
stable civilizations generally speaking; i.e., the ‘pagans’ usually
do far better than this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It is not hard to see the Kirk edge here either, albeit in
more subtle, creative form. This is a community, public, forum; this is
not a three way call between three junior-high jocks. When posting, folks
make sure the content of the post is coherent—which is politeness to any
reader trying to figure out if there is something generally of interest to
read. When posting, folks also insure that the content of the post
matches Subject title for convenience to the general readership. Folks
are also polite enough to choose a different subject title when they decide to
post on something entirely different than the current topic of discussion. You
and your associates know all of this, which is why you are posting the way you
do, intentionally breaking all of these norms. You do so not to
illustrate a productive point or to encourage anyone to truth or good deeds;
rather, you do so to vandalize a forum that you consider a threat and a nuisance.
As one kirker explained, Vision 2020 is a slew of shit and I was an idiot for
even talking to the people who post to it. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> has sought to get it exterminated, and
refers to this forum as “moonbats” and “Purblind.” Most
kirkers will at least call it Venom2020. I can’t speak for others,
but I know that I would prefer profanity and name calling to someone high-jacking
the threads that I tried to generate, particularly when I know it is because
they have no respect for me and do not like what I am talking about. None of
you even experiment in offering kindness or understanding to your opponents,
nor do you give simple rational discourse a chance. I was of course referring
all of the kirkers engaging in this new practice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If you think that the arguments Tom and J Ford have
presented regarding the pictures are unsound, feel free to point this out in a
way that gives other people a reason to read your posting under the thread
generated by these arguments. And again, I’m sad to see you spend
your time on this list in such a way when there is currently an apologetic
discussion about submission and the gospel going on. That would typically be
far more interesting to the typical evangelical Christian. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I hope that helps explain. Let me know if you have any
further questions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Who did I insult?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jackie provided a link to
the Trinity Fest pictures on the Trinity Fest web-page . . .they are fun
pictures, and not very controversial.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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