[Rhodes22-list] Political Reply to Michael Wager...

[TN Rhodey]

Mike, The weather? It has veen raining here for weeks!!!!!

Nice post!

Wally

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:

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>
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> Tootle wrote:
> >
> > Mike said, "I think that there is a misconception about what a forum can
> > or should be. I became frustrated by being lectured by a certain
> political
> > mindset seemed to take it upon themselves to indoctrinate the other
> > participants in the forum with their particular views, to the exclusion
> of
> > almost all else."
> >
> > Mike you were not around at the inception of this forum.  Non sailing
> > topics were at the heart of moving the forum off a sailing only topics
> > medium to Michael Meltzer's free for all.
> >
>
> Ed, In person, I expect you're a nice guy.  Here, I'm not really interested
> in fruitless debating.  I have an open mind to a lot of subjects, and I'm
> willing to consider different viewpoints.  Relentless diatribes and
> accusations of being a sheeple, if one does not whole-heartedly agree with
> you isn't debating, it's name calling, baiting and proselytizing, and
> hardly
> serves to educate.
>
> No, I was not here when the list was conceived, or when it shifted to what
> you describe as Michael Meltzer's "free for all."  From the recent input,
> by
> Michael, I gather that he would disagree with the way you are interpreting
> that shift.  Your input is valued -- you obviously are helpful when you
> discuss solutions to boating and technical queries brought here, and for
> that you should be commended;  however, there is a line that you need to
> draw. There are more non-sailing topics that can be discussed on a
> wide-ranging forum than your view of the political world.
>
> I don't want to argue with you.  I will discuss with you a range of topics
> -- literature, world travel, gardening, brewing of beer, the excellent
> oyster poorboy I just had for lunch, made from the oysters I hand picked
> from the creek beds this morning...  but I won't engage in politics with
> you.  It brings out the worst in me, and I would expect, not your best
> either.
>
> How's the weather where you are?  Trapped here in Maryland between the
> early
> spring of the south and the winter snows of my homeland in Upstate NY,  I
> sometimes feel like I am in no-man's land, not having the best of anything,
> while those to the south and north have something...
>
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