mexican seafood said:
I would hope a licensed clinical psychotherapist would know how to spell "warrant" correctly.
I'm not perfect! Whadda know! It puzzles me. Did you never misspell a word? What does that have to do with anything?
I'm sorry, I don't want to be personal, but you really have pissed me off, Shari.[/quote]
I really need to understand what is going on. At the moment the only thing I know is that I used a signature line that I use all the time, on other message boards and on my e-mail. Suddenly, I was the object of hatred (yes hatred). Maybe it is because I Jewish and believe in the Israelis. I just don't understand. When I joined this board I started of on topic. Then the reactions began. There is little, if any, respect for personal points of view on this board. How is it that one person has the authority to monitor my words and assign "points" just because he is offended by the words in a signature line and decide that these words should NOT be there. They are just WORDS, and whether or not I believe in them is nothing more than a personal point of view.
Tell me, please. Why did I piss you off and even if I did (for reasons I do not understand) is this any reason to ban a persons right to say what they believe in (after everyone began to pounce on me for the signature line). I just became defensive. Wouldn't you become defensive if it happened to you?? You will probably tell me that you wouldn't be defensive and that it would be okay with you if someONE decided that a signature line of yours deserved a warning and points. I did nothing wrong. I can't understand why this is happening.
We are all individuals with individual joys and sorrows, with an individual belief system. So tell me, what did I do that was so horrible (more egregious than anyone else's words that were written in response to the signature line)?
You tell me that you don't want to be personal. Tell me then, why are you being personal and why are you putting me down as a person just because I became defensive AFTER people also became personal to me and in a very nasty way.
One last thing. When I first joined and began posting (just last month), I began posting on-topic. Suddenly all these people (who really don't know me) began to pounce and I became defensive and angry. However, I was (and still am) a person you (and the others) don't really know. I think it was after just my first or second post that I was
WARNED that my freedom to say anything I believed in was in jeapordy. I might as well belong to a Communist country because that's how I feel right now. I have to look at every word I write and wonder if someone is going to hate me for it and assign points. The only thing that I did wrong was to speak my mind in response to an attack on my words and beliefs. Suddenly there was one person using his power to ban freedom of speech. I wonder how he would feel if someone told him to get a post off (a post that HARMED NO ONE) the board because they didn't agree with the words.
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Listen to me, please. I joined Blue
I would also hope that you would have had the courtesy to actually read my post, because it is obvious from your increasingly ignorant replies that you did not.
For your benefit, I will present a short summary.
- You have obviously caused offense to someone.
- Whether you feel this is warranted or not, the offense has been caused.
- By posting what you know is potentially contentious and contraversial material, you have contravened the forum rules.
- Mr. Bilzor, our friendly forum moderator, was only attempting to inform you of this and to ask you kindly to remove what could be seen by some as offensive material.
I believe that the main question of this thread has been answered sufficiently.
Perhaps it is time to
close this thread and forgive and forget.[/QUOTE]