nah, I'm not gonna leave. It is damned tempting though, when it starts to feel like it is two camps totally unswayed by each other.

I really care about what people think. That is why I try and offer stats and such so they don't have to think I am just imposing opinion. It just gets really discouraging when you realisze that no amount of statistics or logic is gonna matter. Like my history professor used to say, "If it wasn't reasoned into them, you can't reason it out of them.

I just need to adjust to the fact that a lot of people aren't here to exchange ideas, they just want to brainwash and defame people they hate. Sad.

dharma, take heart that meaningful dialogue does still occur, Poetmom recently got me to rethink my position on the execution of pedophiles. Im not sure im ready to change my mind, but her comments have made me seriously look at my position...and im still turning it over in my mind.

And that was without even TRYING to change your mind....all I did was state my feelings on the subject....sometimes that's all it takes, is to see something from another direction...and then you start to think about it differently. You may not change your mind, but at least it gives you another way to look at it, if only for a little while.

Bappy Hirthday in advance, in case i forget!

Thanks!!

I just need to adjust to the fact that a lot of people aren't here to exchange ideas, they just want to brainwash and defame people they hate. Sad.

Very sad...but, unfortunately, a fact of life.

I'm just so damn tired of a few people who lower the tone of the whole establishment, you know?

As far as I am concerned, blogs like this lower the tone of the establishment.

Basically you are saying our community is getting to be so crap, that you will leave... and obviously when you leave, it will be much worse...

It will never, ever change Dharma... it's cyclical, when you have been here as long as you and I, you do realise that the same things come up over and over again... and the only way you will get over that, is if you do quit... and as Karma said, you are not going to quit, you were never going to, so why claim that you would? Creating a bit of drama good for PR or something?

BAM!!!

and as Karma said, you are not going to quit, you were never going to, so why claim that you would?

 

They call it venting.

MAB!!!!

(Emeril Lagasse... my anti Muggaz)

"Creating a bit of drama good for PR or something?"

Snippy, snippy...

Kind of homey when you can almost predict where the regulars will fall on on a discussion.

Hey Muggaz.....

...nah, forget it.  I was going to say something that would not only lower the tone of this community even more, but would lower my standards as well.  I refuse to do that.

As for the drama....I think that you've got the corner of the market covered, don't you?  And yes, I am/was seriously considering quitting.  I said I was going to take a back seat weeks ago beccause it wasn't fun anymore.......and it still isn't fun. 

I suggest you take your own advice.....if you don't like to read my venting and ranting, then don't come here and read it.  Since our last little spat I haven't followed you around having a go at you..if I haven't had anything nice to say, I haven't said it to you.  I suggest that you do the same.

Kind of homey when you can almost predict where the regulars will fall on on a discussion.

Sorry - I just dont like bitching... this aint venting, it's bitching...

Bitch away, you are going to anyway... have fun, whatever...

Baker, I am actually quite honoured that you knew I would have this stance... I know it was probably meant as a dig... but at least i am consitent.

BAM!!!

Bitching, venting, ranting, raving, complaining, letting off steam......it's all semantics as far as I'm concerned.

Hey, at least I'm consistent as well.  I mean, all I do is bitch, right?

Muggaz- you are consistent only in that you regularly cycle through periods of solid writing and these apparent bouts with idiocy. maybe hormone theraphy would help?

As for the drama....I think that you've got the corner of the market covered, don't you?

Yeah - I just had Sir Peter Maxwell do a cover of Dancing Queen by Abba, and it's now called Drama queen.. all dedicated to yours truly.

If you were bitching about something I had no involvement in, then you can go right ahead... people around here are calling you blogging celebrity ffs... and you go around saying these people are making me sick... blah, blah, blah.... You can't get away from the phenomona that is Dharma... I need to read it! And i haven't read it deliberately just to have a go... I have had a go because I have read it. You dont want me to read, blacklist me.

The reason I have replied, is because I want to make it known, I dont see bitching about each other acceptable... Bitching too each other - i.e. what you and I are in the process of right now... is perfectly acceptable, because there are no mis-conceptions, and we are on a level playing field.

Either quit, or stop talking about it...

BAM!!!

Muggaz- you are consistent only in that you regularly cycle through periods of solid writing and these apparent bouts with idiocy. maybe hormone theraphy would help?

If you think I care whether you think I am an idiot or not Greywar, you are sorely mistaken...

I sleep at night.... I am confident I am doing the right thing by myself... to bad if it's not right for every one else.... It's funny, you call me the ultimate thread hijacker, but that post was merely just to criticise me... nice.

Like i have said, the blogging community is cyclical... the bouts of idiocy will usually be brought about by a bout of something from someone else... and if i am an idiot for calling foul on bitching, then i am an idiot.

BAM!!!

and you go around saying these people are making me sick...

actually she named no one yet you assume that you know who is involved....

actually she named no one yet you assume that you know who is involved....

When have i assumed I know who is involved?

I know she is talking about someone within the community... I dont care who she is talking about...

BAM!!!

Either quit, or stop talking about it

Umm, hell no. This is my vent, my rant, and if I want to keep on ranting on my own blog then I will damn will do it.

As for celebrity...as I already pointed out, I never asked for that, nor do I walk around with the attitude of "I am Dharma, all must bow down and worship me".  I'm not afraid to admit that I'm human, that some of the things I do are fucked up.  I don't know where this idea of celebrity comes from, but to be honest, I don't like it.  It makes me feel like I have a standard to maintain, and I hate that, because it makes this, this blog, not fun anymore. 

As for you Muggaz, well, I could give a rat's ass what you find acceptable or not. 

and if i am an idiot for calling foul on bitching, then i am an idiot.

here is your own bitching article...