vossler said:
As a newer member to this forum, at least within the Origins Theology section, you may not have been aware of many of the observations I've listed and for that you get a pass. However, if your goal is to change what I've written to align with what you really wish I had said, well I'm not going to play that game. My statements were observations, if you wish choose to ridicule them, you're free to do so. But since you can't respect them for what they are and the spirit in which they were presented then I will exercise my free will not respond.
You are either uniformly naive or utterly disingenuous. I don't have enough evidence yet to decide one way or the other.
1. Just because I have a low post count and have become a member recently doesn't mean that I haven't spent time researching CF in general and the subforums that interest me in particular. So set aside your bit of patronizing, and let's focus on the real issue.
2. The real issue is that you made base assertions about the nature and character of TEs. What you call 'observations.' You posted these generalized 'observations' and couched them in language that was definitively judgemental. Yet, and this is important so pay attention, you have provided absolutely no (as in none, nada, zip) verifiable evidence to back up your 'observations' or support your judgments. Since you consider yourself my senior, then you ought to know that if you are going to make any sort of claim in a debating forum on CF then you had better be prepared to back it up. Which you didn't do and still haven't done. Back up your claims or retract them.
3. My goal was not to change what you had written so that it was in line with what I wish you had said. My goal was to amplify the subtext of what you had written so that it was obvious to both you and others, but more especially for you. It was an attempt to help you understand how what you had written was received. I don't think I was too far off base as no TE who has participated in this thread has yet to say, "Gee, Vossler, thanks for the insight. You hit the nail on the head when it comes to us silly ol' TEs"
4. Again, ridicule was not my intent. But if you feel ridiculed by what I wrote, then perhaps that's a signal to yourself to go back and reconsider what you wrote and how you wrote it.
5. Do you expect me to respect disrespect? I know that you
say that you mean no disrespect, but I can't help but feel that I've had an olive branch shoved up my nose by what you have written.
Step back for a minute and consider this: it seems that you wrote your OP in the spirit of reflecting on the new year and new year resolutions and all that good soul searching stuff that seems to infect people at this time of year. Great. But it has been my experience that when one wants to reflect on the year past and make resolutions for the year coming that it is accepted good form for one to do this for oneself and not someone else.
You are not a TE, but a YEC (as observed in your posts and your profile.) So why not make 'observations' and 'reflections' on YECs instead of TEs. At least then it would be genuinely reflective instead of accusative.