Okay, i'll start off by saying that i have been as guity as anyone else here of losing my temper and making sardonic remarks. Mea Culpa.
However, one-line remarks and snide flaming does nothing to promote discourse. Admonitions to "grow up," remarks about "*-isms"(fill in your favourite name here...) and "Blah, blah, blahs," are just a waste of time it takes to read them and clutter the threads. They don't help.
There are a couple of angry people here, some not angry all the time, others are angry as a state of being -or so it seems.
IMHO there are people in these postings who suffer from thin skins and thick skulls. They need to -as my daughter might say, 'chill.'
There are others here who like to fire broadsides. They seem to have an agenda. Occasionally they draw out a reasoned response and initiate a dialogue, other times they are simply admonished to "grow up, or "shut up."
Somtimes i read these calls-and-response and giggle. Sometimes i just sigh. Sometimes i get really p'd off.
Sometimes i fire my own broadside back, but, really, most (yes, most,) of my angrier or sarcastic posts get the re-read, ten count, and a prompt delete.
Maybe some of us need to count to ten and learn to let it go.
-just a thought on a saturday morning.
peace,
-mw.
However, one-line remarks and snide flaming does nothing to promote discourse. Admonitions to "grow up," remarks about "*-isms"(fill in your favourite name here...) and "Blah, blah, blahs," are just a waste of time it takes to read them and clutter the threads. They don't help.
There are a couple of angry people here, some not angry all the time, others are angry as a state of being -or so it seems.
IMHO there are people in these postings who suffer from thin skins and thick skulls. They need to -as my daughter might say, 'chill.'
There are others here who like to fire broadsides. They seem to have an agenda. Occasionally they draw out a reasoned response and initiate a dialogue, other times they are simply admonished to "grow up, or "shut up."
Somtimes i read these calls-and-response and giggle. Sometimes i just sigh. Sometimes i get really p'd off.
Sometimes i fire my own broadside back, but, really, most (yes, most,) of my angrier or sarcastic posts get the re-read, ten count, and a prompt delete.
Maybe some of us need to count to ten and learn to let it go.
-just a thought on a saturday morning.
peace,
-mw.
-mw.
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
-Juvenal.
QUID RIDES? MUTATO NOMINE DE TE FABULA NARRATUR.
-Horace.
