(07-09-2023, 09:14 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-09-2023, 08:57 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Violent extremism? Me? You're a loon. You don't push back, you create nonsense in your head in an attempt to make yourself look smart. You have no principle you won't serve up for the purpose of playing contrarian and it's pathetic.

Do you want me to quote your posts back to you?

(07-09-2023, 10:26 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-09-2023, 09:45 PM)JagsorDie Wrote: I enjoy reading this section but this thread is entertaining. Mike sometimes has a point but  9/10(actually more like 10/10) your  posts are contrary to the general consensus of this board. Which sometimes keeps the conversation moving, if for nothing else, just to push the other side of a topic. Sometimes you give a vibe that you think the stuff you are saying is new news to people as if they are too obtuse or stupid to consider your take prior to you saying it. But most of the time it comes across like a guy who was assigned a topic in a debate class in which  he doesn’t believe in the stance he was assigned and is being forced into a debate(oddly specific but I took a debate class in college and remember those assignments all too well).

This thread takes the cake, someone presents a reasonable topic that inevitably goes against the grain and consensus of the board(at least the side mike is used to attacking). Should be right up your ally right? Nope. Somehow you managed to isolate your self yet again. I mean you had to stray off topic and resort to direct attacks on the OP, but true to form you achieved the goal of somehow agreeing with absolutely nobody.

Master of your craft my dude. Well played.

I appreciate your post.
One, I do need to do a better job of speaking up when I agree. It's not fun or interesting to me to just reply with "I agree" but I should do so more.  I don't like that people think I'm just being contrary.

I never took a debate class.  Maybe I should have.  We had to write a lot of essays, but only about the side of the story we wanted.  They never made us practice writing things we didn't believe.  I don't do that here.  I just have a unique set of beliefs. 

But yeah your post is more of what we need here, more of what I should be doing.  Just reply with, good point, didn't think of that, wait I don't understand, I understand but I don't agree, instead of "you're a loon for thinking that" or worse.