The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75000   Message #1313249
Posted By: Big Mick
01-Nov-04 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pick nose, Pick butt, Pick Kerry
Subject: RE: BS: Pick nose, Pick butt, Pick Kerry
Sure, but first let's clear something up. I am not stalking you, I am talking to you in the internet sense. All you have to do to get me to stop talking to you is stop posting. But it seems what you want to the ability to throw your gratuitous assertions around, and we are supposed to just ignore the first rule of debate. A gratuitous assertion can be just as gratuitously denied". You post here to get a response. That is the nature of a forum.

Here is what Miriam Webster says a forum is:

Etymology: Latin; akin to Latin foris outside, fores door -- more at DOOR

1 a : the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business b : a public meeting place for open discussion c : a medium (as a newspaper) of open discussion or expression of ideas

2 : a judicial body or assembly : COURT

3 a : a public meeting or lecture involving audience discussion b : a program (as on radio or television) involving discussion of a problem usually by several authorities


If you really wanted me to not talk to you, you would stop posting. As long as you put out positions, it is my right, and the right of everyone here to respond. When you throw your parents very sad plight out here, you are inviting response. If that is not what you want, it should not be here.

Mick