Re: Yet Another Roswell Thread

Rand Simberg wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:09:39 -0700, in a place far, far away,
einarbb@xxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

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If you really want to discuss this properly I suggest you and I might
set up a MODERATED discussion group. I am fed up to the back teeth
with both Fred McCall and Rand Simberg. It is bad enough being called
an idiot when you are wrong.

Fred McCall is priceless. I do a calculation as it would be done in
Bac. What do you have in Iceland? Some version of bacculariat I'll be
bound. He says "Rubbish". He now expects me to take him seriuoly. He
says I take things out of context. He does not seem to expect me to
take these things personally or lying down.

And yet when we're insanely accused of believing and writing things
that we don't believe, and didn't write, we're supposed to simply
ignore it?

When I was a kid, I experienced being picked on by my classmates. Let
´s say I have a thick skind. There is a lot of annoying people.

Yes, I suppose it is annoying to have your irrationaliity and
delusions about other people pointed out. We will continue to defend
ourselves anyway.

Well, I recall the time I was participating in discussions on the
discussion phorum run by Astronomy.com. This was around the time Bush
was making up his mind about invating Iraq. I took at the time the
stance that such an invation was a bad idea, recalling the defence
Bush' own father had employeed when he was telling people why he had
not chosen to oust Saddam during the first US/Iraq war. As I had
allways believed that his given reasons were sound, I argued that
invating Iraq was likelly to end in tears.

I am mentioning this due to the reactions my careful arguments, often
written at a considerable length but after all my university degree is
in the realm of international politics, and I had been watching
developments in the Middle East with interest for a long time, so I
had plenty of arguments. Mind you, as most present on that phorum were
Americans the reactions ranged from cool over to outright hostile,
some of the hostile ones feeling as I was arguing against invation I
must be no less than a supporter of Saddam Hussain.

I could have employeed language of anger in reply, that would have
been the easy way, but the whole time I persisted with replying in
what I considered to be the calm voice of reason, avoiding harsh
words. A number of those were ex military, but it appears that some
retired military men are interested in the field of astronomy as a
hobby.

Cheers, Einar

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