almightywood

I may have been the first person to throw an insult at him in this thread, but he is the one who started hurling insults at me initially.

I never said anything about my grudges only lasting for one thread.


I'm not waiting for something that "may" happen.
I KNOW there is a minority here, I've spoken to them,

Demi-God

You should have addressed that then. People here won't know your history with him, they'll see you as someone who just insulted someone else and will view you as rude and then treat you like that. And I'm guessing that played a big part in how everyone has been treating you.

Miburo

To address this a bit further, the type of discussion you want has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech allows you to say whatever, for the most part. And you are allowed to do that.

Same applies to everyone. You can't dictate what anyone is allowed to say or how they're allowed to say it here. You can say shit, we can say that shit is stupid. You can say "I want you guys to play by my rules" and we can say "Fuck you and your silly rules."

Demi-God

Again, public forum. Everyone and anyone may voice their opinions. If you know for sure that the minority exists then talk to them in private where you know others won't jump into the conversation. Personal Messages make for a good way to do so.

Miburo

You'll have to forgive me if I don't just take your word on that. Not that it matters if you were being spiteful about something that happened in a completely different thread. He wasn't insulting you in this thread. You brought your childish grudge into this thread by directly insulting someone who wasn't directly insulting you in this thread.


It's quite ridiculous that you think holding silly grudges and being spiteful about someone not following your personal code of conduct regarding respect are noble endeavors. You're acting like a little baby, grow up.



Not this bullshit again. It doesn't matter. Those imaginary friends of yours are obviously cowards who aren't going to post here. And if they do and they're posting similarly stupid shit to the stuff you've posted then I will personally call them out on it.

ACt

Wanting people to agree with you? There is a very good reason I claim 5 cents every time someone says "I agree with ACt..." A) because it does happen regularly and it'll provide a nice university fund for future children and B) because it takes effort to clearly state your ideas in such a way that people who either don't agree or having given the idea thought so that they will agree or at least accept that there is a solid base for my assertions and opinions.

All AW has done is asserted that he doesn't have to defend what he says, which we all disagree with near to a man (woman). We've even provided reasons it is a lame premise that doesn't hold up to scrutiny (amazing that a position that forbids scrutiny fails under it) and he's rejected it. Why would we even begin a discussion?

As Lord Pish Posh so aptly put, if you want to have a discussion with someone who believes as you do or at least won't question or reject anything you say, a mirror is your best bet. Discussion are going to break into debates any time someone doesn't agree, it doesn't have to be a nasty debate so long as sides are going to counter or accept evidence that refutes/weakens their stance. AW does none of that here.

Also, since I said I'd point out dumb things people say, even if they agree with me, xxMESTxx... pretty lame insult, dude.

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almightywood

Freedom of speech is also what allows people to have things like political rallies and church on Sundays, and I guarantee they kick people out of those things when they speak out against what the assembly was based around.

Same thing with having different threads here.

I shouldn't have to hide to have the type of discussion that I wish to have just because some other people are rude. I'll just wait for them to get bored and leave. I would say that growing up means learning to respect other people. I do a pretty good job of respecting people that deserve it. Which is pretty much everyone THAT GIVES IT OUT FREELY like I did to all of you to begin with.


I don't even care if someone questions what I have to say, I will gladly respond to it properly as long as they didn't get off to a bad start with me. You yourself began by telling me that my point of view was exactly what was wrong with the world.

I absolutely maintain that the only person that ever has to prove anything is the one who claims that something is wrong. Even though this is so, I will prove anything I have stated to someone who didn't begin their relationship with me with some form of them telling me I was wrong. As far as I am concerned once someone tells me I'm wrong my responsibility in what I have said drops to 0%, they have just adopted it all, unless they can actually prove without a doubt that I was wrong.

I just don't think a lot of people here understand the difference between a disagreement, and right and wrong. One is a fleeting thing, the other is something of importance.

kael03

Sorry, but that's not how discussions work. Like, anywhere. You have the burden of proof by making the initial claim. Anyone that tells you you are wrong are, in a round-about way, asking you to provide actual, concrete evidence of your claims.

xxMESTxx

The woman one? Meh, It was a follow up to calling him a complete and total vagina. At the time it seemed fitting. I'll agree not my best, man.

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ACt

I disagree. You're wrong.

Nope, seems like I understand those concepts just fine, thank you. Any other "concepts from grade two" you'd like to question our knowledge on? I'll have you know that I can tell the difference between a triangle and a square before you ask.

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almightywood

Funny how you stated them both together like that. Most people don't realize they can disagree with someone without either of them being wrong. Saying I disagree requires no proof, as does anyone stating anything other than stating that someone is wrong, and or someone is right.

Things that are actually right and wrong come along so rarely that it's ridiculous. Most of the time it's just all gray shit. You all act like everything is black and white when pretty much everything is gray.

Whatever, I've never been anywhere but here that people haven't gone by those rules in a discussion.

ACt

Yes, funny that. Might have been because I was mocking you.

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almightywood

Funny again how you remove some shit claiming you already know it as you state you are mocking me for the same shit. You sure you know it?

Miburo

I wouldn't consider throwing people out of some place for the things they say as an exercise of freedom of speech. Mostly because it's not.

However, if you think it is and that such a thing is justified then I could use the same train of thought to say me banning you from the forum would also be just as justified and okay.


Fancy that, because I think everyone here has learned how to show other people respect as well. Especially people that deserve it. And I'm fairly certain no one called you an idiot in here until after you directly insulted Numinous.

In fact, if anyone called you an idiot or whatever before you started posting things that can justifiably be seen as idiotic, then I would condemn such actions.

Again, not that any of this matters. You failed to address my statement. Would you say holding ridiculous grudges that result in you directly insulting people in threads where that person isn't directly insulting you as something a mature individual would do? Do you really think it's not childish to tell people they're wrong about things they're blatantly right about purely because you are holding some grudge against them? You have literally stated that you would disagree with someone saying that grass is green because he didn't show you the respect you feel entitled to. That's beyond ridiculous, and only makes you seem like an immature idiot.

Seriously, just put your petty grudges aside for a moment and picture some 38 year old guy standing in a field of green grass telling some guy the grass isn't green purely because that guy didn't do what 38 year old lunatic wanted him to do. That's idiotic. You're an idiot if you think that's not childish and moronic. I mean, honestly, dude. Come on.

ACt

I thought you weren't in the business of calling people wrong?

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