@socalgolfguy,
socalgolfguy;28614 wrote:I had no idea you were most of those things. Some yes, but most, no. It's no wonder you feel odd about being on a largely conservative forum. Thing is, it in your head, not ours.
The reason why you had no idea I was "most of those things", is you don't shut up and listen...you're too busy, going on and on, about what you think and what you believe, and the world according to you...how could you have known about me? When it's all about "you". and "you", and "him"...and "her" (actually the women on this site have been pretty cool...it's you uptight men, with so many issues of your own, you can't even begin to address any others.
On the contrary, I don't "odd", I feel "misled"...I believed, naively, that this was, indeed, an "open forum"...it is not...you people have no idea what it means to have an intelligent discussion about anything. It's a bunch of "backslapping", and "good ol' boy" mentality. Pass the beef jerky and pop me open another Miller Lite.
And, No, it's not only in my head...it's reality....when you have a decidely different point of view, and you try to express it, clearly and intelligently, and others feel threatened by your intelligence, your differences, and their prejudices and biases come to bear, and it prevents, not only "dialogue" but understanding, on a personal level, of another's life experiences, and how they came to believe as they do.....I've found here, no one really cares..and no one really is interested in "real dialogue", and a "real discussion" of the issues...it's just banter, and propaganda, and people desperately trying to get their attention needs met.
It speaks volumes about you, not me.