"The whole bully comment was not complaining that you were bullying me. It had to do with you one minute saying Ed is a bully, and then the next minute you are being the bully. And that after you were Flamed Ed about Flaming Don. I was pointing out the hypocrisy and irony of it."

Okay, whatever. You insult me for being insulting, I claim that me being insulting was not insulting but rather had purpose, now you claim that you being insulting is not insulting. It must me like WMD- they can exist and not exist as it suits your purpose, but only as it suits your purpose.

"But I have compassion, something you don’t have, or at least have never shown here."

Really? My anti-war stance that suggests that what we are doing is murder and pointless is devoid of compassion? And I asusme your kill-for-a-false-cause and kill-without-facts stance is the height of generous moral composure towards your fellow man.

Whatever, REB, there are a hell of a lot more nasty and heartless things in this world than me insulting you on a flame board. Like us starting a war on false pretense, or nobody calling you on your bullshit re-arranged justifications. Or like blindly supporting causes that get thousands of people killed bloodily.

"Don post his same stuff everyday, knowing it infuriates people like Ed. He is not surprised by Ed’s response. Why are you? "

I see, so because Ed gets wrongfully indignant, hyperbolic and insulting on CE, its okay because Don should have known that posting within the bylaws of CE upsets Ed? This just gets dumber and dumber. This is basically saying that Don should forgo his right to post opinion on CE so that we can preserve Dear Ol Eds tender feelings. Like hell.

Besides, Ed gets nasty to ANYONE he disagrees with.

"problem with Ed's reply it is between Ed and him. "

No you loon, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT, Ed and his Kindred Spirits are trashing CE, I am a part of this community, I will stand up for it. You may want a gang of hatemongers dominating what gets said here, but I don't. Like hell.

" don’t hate you, Davin, but I have little in common with you. I will admit when I am wrong, and I will compromise. I have never seen you do that.
"

REB, you can call yourself Jesus if you want, but if you act completely contrary to your claims about what you are, its little more than a joke or insanity. I have never seen you change your mind, admit being wrong or compromise. Your conclusions about things remain the same, even when you re-arrange your justification for that conclusion. You furthermore then deny having re-arranged your justifications at all. Its like you are a monolithy of emotional sunjective thinking. You can sit there and profess moderation all you want, but when you are marching gleefully with the pack, it just makes you look self-deluded about who you are.

As far as admitting I am wrong, I have done so plenty of times when TB or MA or even SDAI catch me on a point (I have done a whoops! with all of them). You just don't care to remember. I don't care that you don't care. I don't hate you either, I just know that you have an image of me that you formed as soon as you id'd me as a liberal, and it won't change, and I don't care to change it.

" When is the last time you posted something positive over on the Space Board. I have not even seen you get excited over the MERs.
"

Go back to that date and look, I was right there posting with the community rooting for them on re-entry (which was the wee hours for me!). I am more of a reader and fan of space than a contributer- I do not hold advanced degrees in engineerin g or physics and I tend not to want to profess outside my area of cmptetence (unlike you, I would add). I ask questions and I debate points that enter my arena of competence (points of reason). I listen to what others have to say. In short, I do all the things you claim I don't. Thus I comment about your selective memory.

As I said, REB, you believe more or less what you want to believe. Thats the thing about you. Facts don't mean anything in your little universe.

"So why are you here, Davin? Is it just to argue and fight"

Well thats why I'm on Flame, REB! If I posted on this board without wanting to argue and fight, that would be rather pointless, wouldn't it? Are you actually posting on Flame suggesting I be less contentiuous? Do you find that at least slightly pointless and counter-intuitive?

Tell you what, why don't you turn some of this heartfelt indignation you have at my pissyness here on flame towards the frikin' apes that are shredding the rest of this community? Oh, thats right, because you agree with them... And you want to let them do your dirty work of killing debate on this board. I see.

Davin L.