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BKBRef said
Seems to me that you have some real anger management issues. You can't have a simple discussion where people disagree with you or say something you don't like without blowing your top. You might want to speak with your local Methodist minister about this. I hear there are some excellent ones on the Duke campus. If not, I know a couple that graduated from there they would love to help you. Just let me know.
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Bart,
I was ready and willing to take you up on your dare and admit that I'd overreacted. It's certainly clear to me looking at the words in one of BKBRef's early posts that they might not have merited such a strong response. I think if they'd come from anybody else on the board, they would not have drawn the one that they did. Then I read the above quote in one of his later posts and realized why I responded the way I did. He's a presumptuous, officious, arrogant, ***. He reads a handful of posts of mine and thinks he knows me well enough to not only a) diagnose me with a psychological problem, but also b)recommend particularized counseling?
He says I "can't have a simple discussion where people disagree with you and say something" I don't like without "blowing my top." First of all, BBR, none of this has generated any anger in me, up until your latest masterpiece. The problem is not me in terms of any inabilty to have a discussion. I thrive on debate. I like disagreement, because in many circumstances it can result in progress toward truth. But the kind of discourse that I'm accustomed to is nowhere to be found in this thread. In better forums, ideas can be exchanged, disagreements can be had, and individuals can hash out differences by analyzing them point by point, without resorting to twisting of words and deleting of context in order to try to win an argument.
Not a one of the respondents in this thread has actually taken the time to give any feedback to anything specific that I've written, at least not without eliminating all context. Those of you who have responded negatively have limited yourselves almost exclusively to calling me a whiner and an overreactor. Fine. You're free to throw words around without actually making a case to support them, but it's a joke on everybody if it works on anybody.
I've enjoyed the rules discussion here. I've learned a lot from it, and will continue to do so. My lesson learned in this instance is that if it can be found in a rule book or a case book, there are some here who will go to the ends of the earth to answer a point directly. But if it's not to be found there, some of the same people simply resort to name-calling and, "Well, since I'm an adult I know how to handle a situation such as this, where you obviously do not." I don't need to be insulted like that. Not from the likes of JR and BBR. That's junk.
And JR, you're definitely right in that I could have saved myself a lot of typing yesterday if I'd just called you an idiot, and stopped there. But then I'd have been guilty of one of the same crimes I've accused you of.
Cheers,
jb
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