re: #296 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

If that is her context I wish she would have said that in the first place. The demonization of others has gone on since the dawn of time. I have always made the effort to give a premise and a conclusion. I also make the effort to engage instead of post and run. In return, I would hope that the person I am having a discussion with would make the same effort. Once in a while, we get challenged. I offer myself up here to be challenged as well. CL is entitled to a summary harumph and an “I’m done with you”, but that is a cop out. Accept a challenge and engage. If I were to post my arguments and go home without trying to support them all I am doing is reinforcing my own arrogance. I would be no better for doing it.
At my pre-Cana sessions at my church, I argued that (we were all Catholic school people in that group) we don’t stop learning about God when we get out of school. We expect to live long lives and have keep growing every day.
I use this analogy here because when somebody posts something without further comment, it strikes me as something that can be explored (sometimes it’s just a joke or a one liner about something and that’s different). I am disappointed that she doesn’t want to explore it.

It would be different if she had posted something you just couldn’t understand. But what I think you are saying is she didn’t post it in the way you think it would be best presented. You make an effort while you are here, but you aren’t here as much as CL is, and that puts you in a less-good position to comment on her ‘style’. If you asked for clarification off the bat, you might have gotten the response you hoped for, but you opened with criticism, and that rarely goes over well.