Posted by alexandra_k on February 23, 2005, at 1:13:50
In reply to An applicable quote, posted by fires on February 22, 2005, at 23:38:43
But he didn't think of everything.
More of a Plato fan myself ;-)
I wasn't so much thinking of avoidance of criticism as avoidance of hurting others unnecessarily...
I too like to argue...
But there must be another way...By the way, I would like to apoligise and retract my 'do not post to me' request. Sorry that I have done that on two occasions now.
I do feel hurt and indignant and annoyed by things that I take to be implied by quite a few of your posts. To be fair I have only followed maybe four of the threads you have posted to. But I have felt all those things in response to all of those threads.
My issue?? Perhaps. I know that everyone doesn't feel that way. AuntieMel, for instance does very well indeed. But I do think that the way in which you go about prompting (or perhaps even provoking) argument or discussion leaves a lot to be desired.
And I don't think that you respond to others telling you they felt hurt or offended very well at all. If you do respond it seems to be to talk about your own ailments. But as I have said before, I do think people would be a lot more sympathetic to your hurts if you showed a little more sympathy (or at least some sort of aknowledgement) of theirs.
But enough of the lecture... And you did say something about maybe being able to word it better... And so I shall choose to take that as an apology for having upset anyone (which isn't to acknowledge fault or blame it is just to say that you are sorry they are hurting) And so that is great. And I feel a bit better now.
Anyways. This has been a hard week for me. I shan't request that you not post to me again - okay? If I feel too upset then I shall simply ignore you - fair enough ;-)
But I do not believe you are malicious.
Truce?
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