[Sean]

Originally Posted by dubman

well i think i can have one wee "i told you so" considering i was told that *other* people werent done discussing a few other points and that it still had places to go. only to fail miserably one more time and justifying my initial impulse to lock it.

I mentioned that "the article that started the thread has other, as yet unexplored aspects to it that are worthy of discussion", but that's speaking to the point that the option of exploring other aspects of the story should simply remain available to us. It doesn't mean I was predicting that other people would be setting the thread abuzz with activity, or that such activity would be necessary to justify re-opening it.

Originally Posted by dubman

although i'm jazzed that you so competently paraphrased everything ive been saying, so thats good. it doesnt bother me, honestly, it's too funny to yell at anyone at this point.

Well now let's see...

You - "you guys are...repeating the whole shitty cycle, flouncing, failing to bring up new points or indeed anything thats traversing the divide that isnt just trying to checkmate the other and make sure you can keep going with the kind of dialogue youve been content to distract yourselves with for years and years"

My paraphrase - "you think we're a bunch of windbags venting nothing but self-delusional distractions"

You - "i also treated the 'the word is all we have and its sacred' mumbo jumbo crap about piss-taking internet edits seriously. shame on me..."

My paraphrase - "you see no value in respecting what forum members have written by refraining from editing their posts"

You - "BB got in late and is playing the part of sean, and cacophony got fed up and is now doing what i did by openly mocking everyone because the dialogue stopped being respectable several posts ago. we're supposed to be childish because we refuse to see your logic as realistic or truthful, and you're supposed to be weak-headed because all we're hearing is evasion and cowardice from whats actually happening.BUT NO LETS KEEP THIS GOING ITS ESSENTIAL AND WE'RE ADULTS AND DONT NEED TO GET PULLED OUT OF A THREAD. YOU SURE SHOWED ME."

My paraphrase - "you think nothing of interest is coming out of any discussions going on here"

I know I supposedly lack a fundamental understanding of the magical labyrinth that is your mind, but I don't think I missed the mark by too much. Maybe I should've specified that your post edits are supposedly limited to the "piss-taking" variety, but aside from that....