[bookshare-discuss] Re: This is getting totally ridiculous

  • From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:27:22 -0700

I think the first "Don't feed the troll." message got it right.  Freedom is the 
freedom to believe as well as not to.  It's the freedom to disagree.  
Unfortunately, it's also the freedom to be everyone else's pain you know where, 
but enough is enough! 

----- Original Message -----
From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 18:03:14
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: This is getting totally ridiculous

>
>
> Hi Patti,
> 
> You may have missed the message in which Roger said that he likes to argue, 
> and when he hasn't had an argument in a good while he will go to a bar and 
> seek someone out with whom to have an argument. Anyone can look it up in the 
> archives if they wish to verify this. It was only a few weeks ago. That is 
> why I doubt his veracity when he claims that he was simply making a casual 
> remark about the club.
> 
> Why take the trouble to go to a bar when you can provoke an argument from the 
> comfort of your own home?
> 
> Evan
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Patti Johnson 
>   To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:56 PM
>   Subject: [bookshare-discuss] This is getting totally ridiculous
> 
> 
>   Go for it Sue.
>   Roger, ever heard of agreeing to disagree?
>   No one is going to change your point of view, which is what we have been 
> given, that is, freedom of choice  so you need to  stop trying so hard to 
> change everybody else's to yours.  We get what it is, ad nauseam.
>   All this started out because you had to comment on the Christian book club. 
>  Why did you think you had to do that?  Nobody asked you.
>   I am not going to join the club because I'm not a joiner, don't have the 
> patience for such things but I certainly wouldn't put down any one's having a 
> book club of any kind, whatever it would be, if some one wanted to come up 
> with one on vampires, I'd not be interested but I wouldn't feel it necessary 
> to stand up and critique it and say I wouldn't be interested in it and why.   
>  It's not my concern, the Christian book club isn't yours; so what, who cares.
>   Patti
> 
> 
>   The average dog is a nicer person than the average person
>   Andy Rooney
> 
> Hi Patti,
>  
> You may have missed the message in which Roger said that he likes to argue, 
> and when he hasn't had an argument in a good while he will go to a bar and 
> seek someone out with whom to have an argument. Anyone can look it up in the 
> archives if they wish to verify this. It was only a few weeks ago. That is 
> why I doubt his veracity when he claims that he was simply making a casual 
> remark about the club.
>  
> Why take the trouble to go to a bar when you can provoke an argument from the 
> comfort of your own home?
>  
> Evan
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Patti Johnson 
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:56 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] This is getting totally ridiculous
> 
> 
> Go for it Sue.
> Roger, ever heard of agreeing to disagree?
> No one is going to change your point of view, which is what we have been 
> given, that is, freedom of choice  so you need to  stop trying so hard to 
> change everybody else's to yours.  We get what it is, ad nauseam.
> All this started out because you had to comment on the Christian book club.  
> Why did you think you had to do that?  Nobody asked you.
> I am not going to join the club because I'm not a joiner, don't have the 
> patience for such things but I certainly wouldn't put down any one's having a 
> book club of any kind, whatever it would be, if some one wanted to come up 
> with one on vampires, I'd not be interested but I wouldn't feel it necessary 
> to stand up and critique it and say I wouldn't be interested in it and why.   
>  It's not my concern, the Christian book club isn't yours; so what, who cares.
> Patti
>  
>  
> The average dog is a nicer person than the average person
> Andy Rooney
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