...and the JWD beat goes on...

by hillary_step 56 Replies latest jw friends

  • Terry
    Terry

    I think hillary_step is one of the most interesting people posting on JWD. I always enjoy his posts and especially his animadversions.

    He is poking fun at the inevitable non-sequitar responses all of us get when we are trying to have a discussion and step on somebody's pet belief.

    CAPITALISM: Do you know what it is? What is your opinion enjoyed by many of the most rabid proponents of capitalism, were acting on the whims of propaganda? Or in fact has socialism actually bought some healthy changes to the capitalist agenda? Many corporations for example recognize that the ideology of the socialist economy which at its most simplistic could be described as "everybody is an owner", does in fact bears fruit in production when workers are included in profit sharing within a company. Production *does* increase when profits are shared.

    I am not a socialist, nor a capitalist for that matter, but do feel that there are many

    That was my Topic when I first got on JWD!

    When I discovered what sort of people hung out here I went into a coma for days afterward!!

    I know know that HS had a most interesting upbringing in a highly politically charged household. I can see that he comes by his extraordinary opinions legitimately.

    Sometimes you just have to get to know people to understand why they think you are insane :)

  • JK666
    JK666

    It only took me 5 seconds of reading to find out I don't care.

    JK

  • journey-on
    journey-on

    Terry, thank you for the info on HS. I went back and read your first topic thread and Hillary_Step's earlier posts relating to it. I was taken

    aback by the kinder gentler conversationalist (I won't even use the word 'debater') that he was back then. He even signed all his posts: Best Regards, HS

    I guess many years and 7000+ posts on this board has turned him a bit sour and more opinionated than one would be normally. Perhaps we should be a bit forgiving

    of him since he " had a most interesting upbringing in a highly politically charged household. I can see that he comes by his extraordinary opinions legitimately."

    And the rest of us, evidently, have not come to any extraordinary opinions the legitimate way, I assume, and are deserving of his sarcasm and name-calling.

    I get it now! Dumbass, me!!

  • hillary_step
    hillary_step

    Terry,

    Many thanks for your comments. I likewise think that you too bring a challenging dimension to the Board, and like myself, I suspect that this is your reason for being here too.

    Journey On,

    Judging from your reply you made to one of my groupies recently, Cognizant Dissident, you are a little oversensitive about things said to you or about you on this Board. I am not. However I will for the matter of public record state that like the Lord above, I am the same now, the same then and will be the same in the future.

    There are many on the Board with whom I have conversed with for years and never had an issue with. There are those with whom I do have an issue from time to time. What divides these two groups is generally I tend to treat people online as I am treated. Fire a shot at me and you better hit the target or I will blow your kidneys out. :) I never fire the first shot.

    One of the most common behaviors that I have noted on this Board is that those who enter threads where they know vigorous opinions are being slung around and get their head banged in the process divide into two groups. Those that learn and move on, and those who get hurt emotionally, carry their grudge around with them like a bloated wart and wait for any opportunity to 'get back' at the person who bloodied their noses.

    Terry and I? I can guarantee that neither of us carry an online 'hurt' around with us, though neither of us is above mischeviously shaking the trees every so often to see what falls out.

    End of homily.

    HS

  • BFD
    BFD

    That was as close to a cuddle as I've ever seen.

    BFD

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    very funny - but I feel left out!

  • journey-on
    journey-on

    HS

    You misunderstand me. I do not carry grudges as you say. But, like you, there are posters here that irk me because

    of one thing or another. However, I am not emotionally devastated by anything any one of you says to me. I'm perfectly

    confident in my ability to roll with the punches and carry on. Prideful arrogance is something I detest in any person,

    online or in person. I suspect you are the one guilty of carrying grudges around like a bloated wart by the way you

    have condescendingly attacked certain posters that, imo, definitely had you backed against the wall. You are an

    excellent debater and on a narrow range of subjects appear to be the most knowledgeable, but you don't like to lose an

    argument and you've dishonorably fought the verbal battle with some, imo. But, that being said, there is nobody else

    like you here. No wonder you have those four groupies (or is it five) slobbering over every word that comes out of your mouth....

  • BFD
    BFD

    So much for cuddles.

    Good night.

    BFD

    ps - ((((Hortensia)))))

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    hey guys, it started out funny! Thanks for the squeeze BFD!

  • Quentin
    Quentin

    That was humorous...now I long for the day I too shall be mentioned in one of your lampoons, sniff, sniff no one takes note of me...sniff (wipes away the tears)...

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