Something of a Revelation

If this initial post is indicative of the thoughts you've shared in all these other fora you mentioned, my guess is you could hold a convention of everyone you've influenced in a phone booth.

You have some thoughts that may be worthwhile, but your presentation is presumptuous and insulting.

Regroup!

Stop being a messiah. I doubt if anyone will ever buy "great truths" "revealed" the way you offer yours.

Oh, how very noble you are. I'm sure you sleep the sleep of the self-righteous every night. I'm so happy for you.

And I suppose you think *your* forum is the only one I post to. And I suppose you think your opinion is the only one valid. In your mind.

Wow, that's the perfect example of what Setanta was talking about! Suppose this and suppose that.

A 'perfect' example you say. Yet you didn't even specifiy the example you were refering to. That sounds like assumption to me on your part.

It is not presumption on my part to point out that you've posted a long ranting screed--it is a self-evident statement. I have pointed out that you begin your disquisition with an unwarranted assumption about those who might read it. If that ignites your ire, than perhaps you ought not to have made the assumption, and left yourself open to that criticism. Stand down if you will, my experience of your writing so far is that you are not equipped to engage in a rhetorical exchange.

soul_doctor73 wrote:

And I suppose you think *your* forum is the only one I post to. And I suppose you think your opinion is the only one valid. In your mind.

CodeBorg wrote:

Wow, that's the perfect example of what Setanta was talking about! Suppose this and suppose that.

soul_doctor73 wrote:

A 'perfect' example you say. Yet you didn't even specifiy the example you were refering to. That sounds like assumption to me on your part.

Doctor -- I encourage you to read beyond the first sentence. My second sentence identifies the example you seek.
When you suppose this and suppose that, it lowers your credibility. Unwarranted assumptions.

When you accuse this and accuse that, based on unwarranted assumptions, it makes people alienated and defensive. It may be more effective to write in the third person more often, as newspaper journalists are trained to do. That way the topic of each sentence is not the reader, but your ideas.

Just some friendly advise, if you'd like people to receive your ideas more easily.
I'd love to discuss the ideas in your original post, but can't start doing that until you stop putting people down in your replies.

Where do you get your hairshirts? I'm sure that it is not easy to play the part of the voice crying in the wilderness these days.

People reply in kind, good Doctor.

Why don't you read what I wrote, and then check back with me about your particular involvement with it.

Just as you were under no obligation to post.

Again, once you read what I wrote, then we can continue.

I'll be very surprised if the moderators allow your self-promoting link to remain here long. You still haven't told me where you get your hairshirts; so many questions: do you wear hand-made sandals, or do you walk across glowing coals in your bare feet? Do you eat from dumpsters, or do you rely upon Yahweh to provide you manna in the wilderness? I'm intersted to know how it is that someone who is so desparately concerned about the plight of the poor in the world can afford a pc with which to harangue us on-line, and the means to maintain a web site.

Another self-appointed, wanna-be martyr.

It sounds to me as though our soul doctor is a wacko.

See you folks somewhere else.

This thread is going nowhere -- although even I will concede that it is going there apace.