joshua said:
The best solution, that I've found, is to route anything from bowerbird directly into the trash bin.
i recommend that for people who experience bad emotional reactions when they read my messages. i don't care if you trash my messages. whether you read them or not makes absolutely no difference to me. but don't read something into them that i never put in them, and then blame me for the emotion you feel.
I only see his stuff when others reply to it
because only hearing one side of an argument is a great way to make up your mind, isn't it? i mean, because if you listen to _both_ sides, it can get _complicated_, know what i mean? so just pick the side that you want to believe, and then just listen to that side. makes it easy. and you know what? that's fine by me. but if you ain't gonna read the whole thread, don't jump into the thread. if you only read every other chapter in the book, i _really_ do not care to hear your "opinion" on it...
(which actually makes his stuff more interesting, because only the truly assinine statements get quoted and I get a good chuckle).
"quoted"? or misquoted? i find when many of my opponents represent what i've said, they _misrepresent_ what i said. so if you're not reading what i really said, only listening to people tell you what they say i said, you're not getting the whole story, by any stretch... but hey, it occurs to me that most of you actually prefer _not_ to have the whole story, not just in regard to me, but for many things. (x.m.l. being just one prime example.) some of you seem to be very highly skilled at sticking your head in the ground... -bowerbird