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Lindy — (archived)

>"Sometimes it will undermine a customer's health, .......It may have happened to someone close to the dramatic poster; I don't know. "

Okay, at least ER had second thoughts and asked to hide the belt, after I'd been whipped already. I think his real concern was having his expressions about this man on the WWW and it being slanderous. Maybe he lost someone with cancer who went to Mexico for treatment.
Maybe his wife spent a grand on acupuncture and he's still pissed. I don't know. I almost lost a girlfriend last year due to medical misdiagnoses and prescribed "care", yet I don't slander the medical profession like that. (She ended up near death several times until she got her kidney transplant.) And I don't accuse practitioners of alternative medicine with the adjectives that ER used. It was an unreasonable over-reaction. And this isn;t even Flame!
People live in a free country and they can do what they like. Most people aren't THAT stupid to disavow proper medical treatment.
All the boorish rantings and ravings of the few here are just THEATRE as far as I'm concerned. One I'd rather not have tickets to.

You remarked as a summary:
>"As for the "stupid" part, that is pure projection, taking it personally."

OK, you want to call it "pure projection"? As moderator of this board, you should maybe have cleaned up the personal insults? Here's a few from this thread to refresh your memory:
From RL:
>"This thread is about SCAMS that steal peoples money- Lindy is advocating them (WAS NOT)
You gotta ban all those with brains enough to see Lindy's claims as stupid
.... a bunch of morons debating 'happy thoughts'...
Post garbage over and over....
Its garbage and a scam.... you should be ashamed for advocating it....
It is a scam. This is not just my opinion, it is demonstrable fact. "

Or from RL Jr. (DL)
>"And we are supposed to take this drivel and show it respect?
I guess I should bite my tounge, lest I be judged as 'harassing' the purveyors of insanity.
...or in the silly little comic books of self-help delusion lauded by dull intellects with no understanding of the depth of the history of Human thought."

I guess I REALLY shouldn't take this personally, even if it WAS directed to me.
It wasn't "pure projection", Mary Anne.

You finished with:
>"A strong opinion, strongly expressed, isn't personally insulting as long as the opinion has no personal slurs contained in it. People have equal intrinsic dignity. Ideas don't. Please don't mistake the two. "

There were plenty of personal slurs in RL's and DL's statements.
I wan't mistaken anything. I can carry on a decent convesation here without the harrassment from him.
Just because I think I little differently than others here, doesn't mean I'm a dartboard for their outrageous slurs.
This has been a problem back and forth for years, yet he always creeps back in to piss on me and you moderators seem to overlook it until I'm ready to leave or start yelling louder than him.
It's not "pure projection"; it's a real problem.
How would you like me addressing YOU with those slurs?

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