Mercury wrote:Don't apologise, she was not in the right to take your lighthearted comment and slap you with it. This is jerseys MO - take an opportunity to demean someone and run with it. Typical baptist/religionist control tactics. Sigh
Shes just mad that all her top staffers are getting raked over the coals at Nuremburg.
Your comments might hold some weight Mercury, if I were baptist and if I didn't have the right to determine, as receiver of the remark, whether it was offensive considering that it was delivered from a male poster to female posters.
My "MO", Mercury isn't to "take an opportunity to demean someone and run with it". My "MO", if I have any at all is to make inquiry, to learn something and call people on BS when I think I see it as I would expect them to challenge me.
Consider yourself called.
Jersey Girl
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Mercury wrote:Don't apologise, she was not in the right to take your lighthearted comment and slap you with it. This is jerseys MO - take an opportunity to demean someone and run with it. Typical baptist/religionist control tactics. Sigh
Shes just mad that all her top staffers are getting raked over the coals at Nuremburg.
It was not something I should have said, I was not thinking when I wrote it, and I wish I hadn't said it. Hence, I apologized. I was actually going back to edit it when she responded.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Re secrets in general, I had an interesting dream last night. I have a semi-secret -- posting on this board and having posted on Mormon boards for the past ten years. Not so much the posting in itself, but I've never revealed my screen names to Mormon family or friends (not that they've asked me to, they haven't). Anyway, in my dream, I was posting on the board and all of a sudden everybody's real names were popping up on their posts. At first I felt panicked, then I began to feel a sense of freedom at the "secret" being revealed. Then the real names disappeared from the board as mysteriously as they had come and I didn't know whether to be glad of it or disappointed.
Now that I know it was just a dream, I don't plan on posting real name or revealing my screen name for purely practical reasons, same as before. I do believe that true spirituality is a state of having no secrets, though. I'm not there yet, but I believe that God is, and he has no secrets.