Posted by lil' jimi on November 7, 2003, at 14:28:23
In reply to Re: Specific questions, posted by Dr. Bob on November 5, 2003, at 19:51:57
okay .... <breath!>
okay ... i am going to try this again .... ... ( ..3, 4, 5, ...) <exhale>
...this has gotten me extremely aggravated ... ... ex-treme-ly!
... and my pb “civil”-ity fails me ... not only that, but words fail me ... ... ... <breath ...> ... i’m okay now ... ...this is like the billionth attempt to post to this thread and all the others HAD to be deleted ... really!
i’ll make it ... i’m okay now . .. .... ...
1) Lar is SO right that it is not *EVEN* funny ... ... it is infuriating!! (see? Two Exclamation Points! ha!)
2) the reason so many good folks get so upset by this is because ... ...(besides the challenges of our uniquely defined “civil”-ity here and the challenge of just word usage we all are faced with here ..... )
... it challenges RATIONALITY .... .... ( ! ! ! )
you see, the revealed unreasonableness of your (Dr.Bob’s) (continuing to develop) registration and posting policies seem determined to defy being comprehended in rational terms .... .... .... and being able to do any analysis and critique of these developments puts these challenges to test my grip on MY rationality .... ...
... ... ... this is not the best thing for me to be doing .... ... it’s a kind of a “hold on lightly, but don’t let go ...” - thing ... i get myself in trouble if i try to squeeze it too hard ... ... <breath! breath!>
i support every one of the posts Lar has made here and i am indebted to Lar for putting into words the insights i feel deep inside of me and are screaming to get out .... they are still screaming ... but not so loud now . .. thanks, Lar ... thanks a lot , man ....
.... for me,
i do not care about vocabulary .... or anything about kristen, her posts, emails .... this is not about her...this is about
How can i know i am meeting a stranger or not?
put another way ....
How can i or anyone be confident that a unfamiliar poster is, in fact, someone i have not met before?
How can posters be safe from those who would (will!) have us at this disadvantage?... ... ...to me the challenge is
how to protect folks’ privacy and anonymity (which are essential for lots of folks’ safety) here at pb,
WHILE
NOT
allowing folks’ privacy and anonymity to be used
to ENABLE the trolls ... or any other folks who would (will) use their masquerade to, under false pretenses, and with bad will, malice, et cetera ... commit fraud.... ... thinking about my next comments here .. for a while now ... thinking thinking thinking ... ... ...
... ... ... mmm mmm mmm!i may try this again later ... ... it seems to me now that i can not EVEN specify the crimes/assaults/trespasses i want to have us protected from ...... ..(Breath! Breath! BREATH!!!)
... due to the restraints of pb's “civil”-ityOOOOkay, i need some help here ... ... ... none of my ammo can fire ...
... ANYONE have the cool and the means to refer to what i am referring to here ... is anyone following any of this ... help?
i do VERY much appreciate this discussion ... ... ... and i want to thank all of our contributors here ...
again my thanks to Lar for this ... ... and (all pb knows what i mean) SO much more, man! ... really, you are great!especially in getting uncle Bob’s attention ... way to GO!
okay now ... anyone want help our ol’ lil’ jimi here ... please?
~ jimp.s. emailing me ain’t no big thing .... ... yahoo calls me “yellowdogjim” then there’s that little “at” symbol thingie, then there’s the ‘yahoo’ then a ‘dot’, et cetera ... ... ... we should always mumble them out this way so’s the ‘bots don’t eat your adx and spam us to death ... heh heh .. know what i mean? .... and mention pb in the subject line, or i might mistake your message for spam ...
~ j
poster:lil' jimi
thread:273904
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