Anger Over Mohammed Cartoon

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

you mean except for you, that is. i think pretty much everyone knew he was a troll. your putting it under the label of 'mind fuck' ( which is a corny term that is overused and underdescriptive) doesn't change it. i'm curious as to why you didn't express this opinion until after he was banned? is it a case of hindsight, or were you scared of him? i'm left with the taste of condescendingnessosity* in my mouth after reading your post. you practicing to be tw's apprentice?

Not scared of HIM, LJ, just totally disinterested in letting him get his rocks off by attacking ME to divert attention further from what he was doing here. In other words, this is not my forum. It is *yours*, and it is not my position to decide who you play with or how. Maybe some of you were having fun too, up to a point. I have most charactistically been a lurker, I prefer to drive around train wrecks and mass murders because I can learn more from watching how other people handle the situation than by getting bogged down in them myself. It makes no sense at all to argue with somebody whose only purpose is to disrupt and challenge the limits. I never thought he was a troll, just a jerk who was too twisted to control his impulses to fuck with your mind instead of have a productive exchange of views. If you think the term is corny, keep in mind that I got it from exactly those people I first observed playing it back in the '60s. It's a game that nobody is supposed to win except them, so DON'T PLAY.

So how do you figure I think I am the only one... etc.? I am not taking credit for anything, just expressing surprise that so many clear-thinking people with IQs and abilities so much greater than mine were willing to play his game for so long. Some people told him off or put him on their ignore list, but enough kept on playing to keep Dov happy until UT pulled the plug. That's what Dov's kind of person is good at, pulling the strings that keep us playing. As for any comparison with the great TW, jedi master of the rant, I am not worthy But thanks for thinking of me.