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wannabuyamonkey said:
You read so much into my posts.



We're all guilty of this.

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Does it bug me? yea acctually it buggs me, but have I ever brought it up before? no, I haven't I didn't even bring it up this time, I just tailed onto what someone else was saying and even then I wasn't making a big deal about it. i am a big boy and I can take it, but look at what you're ssaying, you're implying that I shouldn't fell the way



No, I am not implying that at all (here's the part where you're erroneously reading something into something I've said...it's ok, I'm a big boy).

You may find that a use of "Jesus Christ" is offensive to you. While it isn't my specific intent to offend you, it is my intent to express a level of emotionality in my remarks. And that's a good way to do it.

What I am always saying is that if one finds themselves getting easily offended, frankly, this is not the appropriate forum for them to participate it. We're all guilty of unintentionally offending. Why? Because we talk about issues in these forums about which we feel a great deal of passion and interest. We talk about things that matter to us. Naturally, our feelings will come through, and sometimes, those feelings will offend others.

I find G-Man's "four more years" line to be offensive because of my feelings about our current President. But what's the point of carping on it anymore? I don't see that he's put those words to deliberately offend me. And even if he did, so what? I can get past it and still have intelligent discourse with him.

And you can, too, with me, even though I said "Jesus Christ." If I've taken the name of your Lord in vain, well, that's between me and Him, isn't it?

And frankly, your typos often bug the heck out of me because it means having to work harder to decipher what you're saying. But life goes on and they don't make me think any more or less of what you're trying to communicate.

My response about "get over it" just means that there's little point in calling something out everytime you get offended by it.

Last edited by the G-man; 2005-03-22 2:06 PM.
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