Posted on 04/01/2005 2:39:59 PM PST by hchutch
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Finally, a reply of reason.
Thank You.
I already commented on the situation over here, but I'll check this thread out later.
Mrs. CD and I are getting ready to eat.
"But I'd dog Him mercilessly about the platypus. I mean really, what the hell is that thing all about, anyway? He must have outsourced the designing job or something."
LOL, literally! There must have been a bug in the program God was using or something. At the risk of offending the Bill Gates supporters, perhaps He was using Microsoft? ;)
Okay, guess I'd better log off & get my kids to bath and bed. Take care, everyone. :)
If it can't, or if it becomes a forum completely dominated ...by the issues of the religious right and the xenophobes, then your decision seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I expect a lot more of the long time well-respected posters to follow your lead.
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Sadly, very true. I always value ideas posted by both of you, but am very uncomfortable on so many threads recently that I worry for the 'reputation' of FR as it gains an ever higher visibility in the world of conservative activism.
Not really. He just sounds like all of the other people who hate the people I like. : ) No one who is genuinely new would take it upon themselves to tell a good, long-time Freeper that no one cares he's leaving, imo - and I still don't think anybody lurks for seven years, despite claims to the contrary. ; )
I disagree with you very much, apparently, on Terri and her husband and his judicial allies who have now achieved the death of an innocent woman. Nonetheless, I do not doubt that you are as principled in your advocacy on that issue as on immigration and others.
As strongly as you and I have argued in favor of immigrants and as strongly as we may disagree on Terri, we will be a poorer website if either a) we take our differences personally or b) being on a minority side drives us from the ongoing discussion here.
We have each been in a small minority on immigration. Some opponents on that issue are sometimes very nasty. Sometimes I am very nasty to them. You are somewhat more kind and considerate to them.
On the issue of Terri, some of us are VERRRRRRRRRRY upset at the judicial power grab and the fact that the social left is going after the disabled now as they went after the babies thirty years ago. The solution to the ongoing raids against Western Civilization by our "out-of-control" judiciary is the castration of that judiciary until it learns to behave.
Thirty years ago, I belonged to groups like Young Americans for Freedom, Young Republicans and College Republicans, all of which had regular regional or national get togetehrs at which ideas were debated more vigorously than ideas are debated here in the sense that ad hominem attacks were not rare. It was our internal way of disciplining our movement ideologically. If your argument failed at one meeting, you brought more likeminded people to the next. Movement opposition to the military draft and to abortion were forged in that crucible.
I see little evidence that such a crucible has existed in the last two decades. FR is as close as it comes nowadays. We do not have the advantage of knowing many of each other face to face. Manners may suffer as a result. The strong assertion of ideological differences may easily be mistaken for personal hatred. That ought not to be.
I attack here and I am certainly attacked as enthusiastically. It is just not personal. All that is personal is the positive values of camaraderie and agreement when it occurs (much more often than not.
You have been a worthy and valued ally and, much more rarely, a worthy and valued opponent. If you insist on withdrawing, what can any of us do? I certainly hope you will reconsider.
Exactly right! I mean, this forum could never survive without Lucianne Goldberg and her crew. Or what about CaL and the Keyes bunch? And let's not forget the Buchanan brigades! Oh yes, the loss of "long time well-respected posters" will quickly be the death-knell of Free Republic.
Or not.
Ecclesiastes 1.2: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
(i wondered 'bout that too but didn't ask, thinkin' it mighta been a family photo or somethin', ya know ?)
But your is okay, right, Miss "I Have A FreeRepublic Jacket"? I can't tell you how impressive that is.
Really. I can't.
(yw, hope it helps)
Have you ever heard the song "What if God smoked Cannabis"? It addresses the platypus. ;-)
"YOU are one of the nutty fanatics on this board, you and every other bridge burning, pitchfork toting get Bush because he doesn't tow every single conservative line
idiot!"
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I offer you exhibit A.
The nastiness of tone that has popped up occasionally is, after all, largely the subject of this thread. I don't believe I have ever actively criticized our president on this board. I think you've made quite a big assumption. I this is just the sort of knee-jerk reaction that might be causing some to leave. Seriously, calm down and re-read your post. You've called me "nutty" and an "idiot" without the least knowledge of who I am or what I am about. Sure, I'm not going to jump ship over it, but don't you think it's a bit unnecessary?
And "fanatic"? Really, now that's the most interesting, because I've always thought of myself as a political free-thinker, although fairly conservative.
Look through this thread to see if I've criticized the president. I'm just an adherer to the old addage (loosely quoted), "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it." I think this is what America is about. May rational heads prevail.
Well, ok, maybe I don't. I have a "Chief Disuptor" one ;0)
That's even more intimidating than a FreeRepublic jacket. I'll stand down.
You've been here six months and you don't get the Opus?
Maybe that's part of the problem.
Folks not bothering to figure out that there is/was a distinct culture about Free Republic.
The day this place insists that everyone be on the same page on every issue is the day I walk away.
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