I wonder what exactly caused those postings to be taken so much offense at by so many... Not that it matters much, I guess. And though it was strongly implied in some responses that I was highly immature, in part simply for disagreeing, I must say that those responding so have demonstrated a level of immaturity atleast equal to that they have accused me of having.
Evidently, many interpreted my posts as quite insulting, though the things that were potentially insulting did not apply to them, which I made clear several times when I noticed the misunderstandings, something that, strangely enough, for some reason resulted in even more offense being taken.
For some reason, often when I get involved in debating, whatever it is I say, I either: 1. Leave gaping holes in the arguments that were not present in my thinking, resulting from writing something down a bit clumsily, which people then spend all of their time and effort refuting instead of the argument I thought of; this happens pretty rarely nowdays. 2. End up sounding somewhat like a book when I assemble and write down an over time carefully polished translation of my thoughts into language made bit by bit in my mind over a period of time, and then, incorrectly, get accused of trying to impress people by using big words and formulation. 3. Write things down rather quickly as I come up with them, revise what I have written several times in order to be as clear as possible with the intention of not causing any needless offense until I am quite happy with it, and then still somehow ending up causing great offense when people focus more on the way things are written than on what is actually written, reacting strongly to one thing or another in my way of writing that they find offensive, but I wouldn't were others to do the same, and as they never inform me of what it is, have trouble detecting and changing.
Going by the way those posts were interpreted, I am sure most of those having read them will take offense as they read this as well. I wonder how long it will take before my karma reaches a negative level...? (were it to happen, I think I would be amused, though in a bitter sense. heh; becoming a pariah over a small series of posts arguing that getting amused by fun being poked at something nasty isn't neccessarily bad. I doubt it would go that far, though)
And this, by the way, is just a big piece of ramble not particularly focused on making any kind of specific point. A big lump of thought.
