Hi Lash,
Accepted that most was close questioning. The posts were sprinkled through with a number of personal attacks, though the main ones were near the start, and the author apologised for those.
Hi Intrepid
Quote:I was not judging. At least that was not my intent. Rather I was giving some helpful advice. (There is a difference)
I understood that your intent was to be helpful. English unfortunately is a difficult language in which to avoid the portraital of being judgemental. I guess I have a hope that more people will come to understand the structure behind English, regarding the difference between blanket judgements and helpful criticism.
Quote:I am not saying that you force anything because I do not believe that you do. However, I do believe that you should lighten up a bit (interpretation - you are too wound up) and be a little more tolerant of the intolerant (interpretation - you are intolerant of the intolerant).
Quote:If I told you to get out of the lion's den because you could be eaten, I am not judging the fact that you wanted to enter.
The last quote - you are correct. That is because the structure here is different from the structure of the quote above it. Here you make comment on the fact and possibilities. Above, you make comment on the persons character and behaviour, using words from your judgement of the character/personality behind her posts, not words of fact/possibility.
It's bloody difficult in English to do properly, and I often enough make the same error in structure and judgement, so I wasn't having a go at you - as I said, I have a hope (probably a pointless one) that we develop a language of peace, where help and criticism still have an understood place.
What you said was very mild, and most people would as it was meant to be read - the good intentions are easy to see. I'm just being picky
I have never seen the word psychopath in the bible. Guess I will have to go back and read it again to see where it is listed.