I thought my last was a very mild and very submissive bow to you and your preferences and sensibilities. I really don't understand what in it triggered all this:
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I have NOT ever joined in on the piling on, of you, vis-a-vis some of the things you have posted. And yes, your own term, "benign neglect" is what I gave/give you. I don't even post to those threads.
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Qx: And I you on this topic. Very rarely do I post anything on it and very, very, very little when I do. Seems like you are dishing out a 150,000 lb response to a 1.5 oz stimulus.
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OTOH, the reverse has not been the case. If you want the gloves to come off, so be it and I know far more about YOUR topic, than you know about Freemasonry.
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Qx:
I don't recall saying anything or behaving in any way or using any words which would even imply the remotest desire to treat you with anything but respect and deference even on this topic.
You are welcome to post on any of "my" topics. I've never asked you to lay off. I've never ranted/railed/shrilled at you for any of your opinions that differed from mine--that I can recall. I still consider you a dear and close Friend. I'm pretty mystified by your responses to me on this thread and topic given my extremely mild and inconsequential comments.
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And please don't use weasel words with me! Throwing in "knowingly" and your counseling, doesn't cut it.
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Qx: Sorry you see them that way. I was merely relating my reality involved--sharing as accurately as I possibly could my perspective and limits of my awareness. It was actually an agreement with you that I had limited awareness. I'm shocked you think it deserves such a harsh slap-down. I don't recall ever even hinting that you were anything remotely close to a weasel.
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Oh, so now accurate, historically factual, and detailed replies, used to refute baldfaced lies and 1/2 truths, are to be labeled "diatribes", are they? I'll remind of this; of THAT you can be sure.
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Qx:
I'm not sure what that's going on about at all. Shrill sounding, super strident pontifications on almost any topic come across to me as so much diatribe quite often. Doesn't matter how truthful or not; well founded or not; knowledgeable or not--it's a comment, to me, about the volume and shrillness and perhaps the seeming assumption of virtual or near all knowingness about a topic.
I don't have enough scientific proof level information to emphatically prove much of anything on this topic. I see reasonable points from a lot of; most of the perspectives, if not all of them. So, I'm 99.9% reasonably happy to leave you to it given your vastly greater knowledge and my affections for you and hubby as friends.
You can trounce, pounce on, shred, malign, assault etc. those affections all you feel compelled to do. And they will still be there for and toward both of you as well as for your offspring, to my dying breath regardless of what you do to me privately or publically.
Perhaps it would be good to realize that I didn't wind you up on this topic. And probably I don't deserve to be unwound all over and all on top of because of my weak whiff's of a comment.
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As to my shredding you on one of your pet interests, in public, I probably won't do it. I shall continue to stay off those threads and allow you to do the damage to yourself; you need no help from me, in that quarter.
Oh, so now I'm "shrill", am I? Funny, I would have taken strident, I would even have accepted imperious; I shan't accept "shrill".
The less said about this, between us, the better.