Posting agreement or Disagreement - What are you thinking?

[Dogwood]

Uh, I think what is being discussed is tolerance. That includes the ability to actively listen to, respect, and accept, without necessarily having to adapt to those differences, that not everyone, maybe nobody else in fact, has the same opinions, beliefs, thoughts, habits. values, traits, etc than you, and doing it without argument, stress, raising voices, insults, hatred, conflict, bitterness, etc. Can be very rare to find!

[weary]

Most of the posts in this topic just give me a blank stare. What?? What on Earth are they talking about?

Do you suppose that may be because you're from California, the unrational state?

[Wise Old Owl]

If I said what posts get a rise out of me and why, then that itself would stir up other posts to the contrary.

So it remains unspoken.

Best thing on WB, esp when posting, don't read follow-ups to your post, esp if they are likely to be controversial or hot button. I've been able to stay on here following that rule.

I got halfway thru the page and was thinking 2 things... One - I did this thinking this could go south in a very bad way. Two Someone would come away with a redeeming value gold nugget of wisdom....

Thanks for the nugget of wisdom. But I like reading all the follow up posts.

[Wise Old Owl]

who's hand is supporting you mr. owl?

My faith in God.

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]My faith in God.

looks more like a rosy palm

[The Weasel]

Uh, I think what is being discussed is tolerance. That includes the ability to actively listen to, respect, and accept, without necessarily having to adapt to those differences, that not everyone, maybe nobody else in fact, has the same opinions, beliefs, thoughts, habits. values, traits, etc than you, and doing it without argument, stress, raising voices, insults, hatred, conflict, bitterness, etc. Can be very rare to find!

Very well put, and a very good expression of what I'll try to be. Others will, or won't, as they wish, but that's their call, not mine. I can affect myself but, pending obtaining nuclear weapons, not many others. Maybe not even then.

TW

[Wise Old Owl]

Not sure where you are going with this TM, How about answering the original question... Maybe we might gain a better understanding from your thoughts.

Yea Weasel I liked that post too.

[the goat]

Weasy. Did you not threaten to sue one of the members of this site unless he retracted a statement (joking around) telling you to "put your crack pipe down"?
(he did retract. Congrats, weasy )

Sickening!

Well, depending on how much one looks back accurately at that whole situation, it basically proves what Easy said: "Nothing is to [sic] stupid." And, as all here who might care surely know by now, I don't make the rules here, so whatever was done back then certainly shows that censorship wasn't going on by WhiteBlaze. People have told me I've made mistakes, and now and then I've agreed and withdrawn things. So have others. So yeah, I kind of yearn for those days, in many ways. But, as I noted earlier, those have passed, in large part. What was said about me then might not be allowed now - I'm not in charge, so I neither know nor care - and what I said might not, either.

But I guess Austexs' post shows that much of the oldtime freedom remains; he can flame me and it remains posted, and I don't hold that against him, even if that would matter. I don't even mind him calling me "Weasy." Seems to me, these days, that what people do when flames break out speaks more about them than about their target. So Austexs can say, and do, as he wishes, and I wish him well in doing so.

i see no flame here?

btw, that was a hilarious back & forth; i would have loved to see it go to court!!!

[Wise Old Owl]

Its good to see how people work things out in the impersonal world of the blog.