Posted by Lou Pilder on February 26, 2007, at 9:54:22
In reply to Re: Lou's request, posted by Dr. Bob on February 26, 2007, at 8:21:57
> > > From in the post above, I ask if it is saying any of the following:
> > >
> > > E. Those that keep the law given by Moses do not know the truth?
> >
> > you are saying that what I wrote as a question to another poster ... was leading someone to fel put down.
>
> My thinking was, if you ask someone if they're saying X is ugly, that could lead them to feel accused -- of being the kind of person who calls other people ugly.
>
> Bob
>
Dr. Hsiung,
You wrote,[...My thinking...if you ask someone if they are saying XXX..could lead them to feel accused...of being the kind of person who calls other people XXX...]
There are many posts here that use the preface,{are you saying}in your same thinking that could have the intent to give the other person the opportunity to {rule out} what is in question, not to accuse them. IN my case here, the statement in question by the other member could have the potential IMO to arrouse antisemitic feelings and I wanted to give the member the opportunity to {rule out} that potential.
Those posts were not notated by you as being uncivil so is your thinking here not the same as your thinking in those posts of the same nature?
If so, then could there be two standards here in relation to your thinking?
The new rules that were made here when I rejoined the forum have given me uncertainty as to if I can postthe links to the posts that use {are you saying} and are not notated as being uncivil. Anyone can email me for those if they like or do a search.
If your thinking now is different from before, could it not be fair of you to redact the {please be civil} comment that you posted to me here concerning the use of {are you saying} and replace it with something like,[...I"m going to try something new here and from now on the use of {are you saying} as a preface is uncivil...]?
Lou Pilder
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