by Seventhsonjr » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:14 pm
on page 5 of the same thread I posted the following which anyone can read and look at the original post by Starman to see if I sadi he was "sucking up"<br><br>I guess I'd prefer llinks and quotes as again you have slightly twisted the actual words used.<br><br>(Sucking up is not really in my vocabulary, it sounds more like a military/corporate term).<br><br>You went to great lengths to disparage me AND Biao and then you did in fact do what appears like a turnabout after bashing me for defending him (and again the term "hysterical" is a VERY loaded term - which pissed me off) - anyway here is MY response (readers can judge for themselves) and the post of Starman is at the link in my previous post here but you must go back to the fiufth page from the sixth of the thread that Starman SAID was no more...<br><br>I pretty much take back my apology.<br><br>The term "sucking up" is pejoritive and insulting, but feeling and stating with specifics how and why I felt that I considered Starman's turnaround with Baio disingenuous after his defense of those bashing Biao mercilessly in what seemed an organized defense of the idea that RA is a myth and that the CIA/Crowley Military and connection (and the RI topics on the subject) are looneytoons or so far down the rabbit hole that it is just not credible.<br><br>I wish I knew more...<br><br>But this is a war of attrition folks, and the attacks just keep on coming.<br><br>But judge for yourselves:<br><br>son<br>Unregistered User<br>(7/4/05 7:08 pm)<br> Okay Starman - You ASKED for it...<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> You (Starman, in bold) say:<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Oh Come ON ?!<br>Nobody's been 'attacking' Biao -- Get a grip, pleeze. But what's really odd is that, from my POV, you yourself have been exhibiting more of these very patterns than anyone else: disruptions, 'constant' demeaning slurs and challenges to credibility -- like, HullO?????</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Seventhson (in italics) : <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I beg to differ. An attack on credibility and name calling IS an ad hominem personal attack. My posts have been in RESPONSE to these ad hominem attacks and have focused on the motive for the attacks, i.e. an attempt to harm the credibility of this site as a place where victims can tell their stories with relatively little fear of persecution from their perpetrators. Obviously if this site becomes effective on the RA issue (which really started in many ways with the Johnny Gosch (sp?) stories and the ties of these rings to the White Hoiuse and to the Bushes, then it is going to be a magnet for right wing defenders of the dark slimey evil which is RA. So I am merely pointing out the obvious: those who intend to demean Baio by namecalling and ridicule become suspects as fascist disruptors nd are not acting in good faith.<br><br>The only way to expose the slime is to shine a light on it. If people want to prove they are for real they can provide their bona fides (real name, background, phone, etc., articles they've posted --- verfiable facts and info) that can be used to relatively dispel the taint of their assaultive posts demeaning to Biao and all purported RA vicitms. (And don't get me wrong, purported victims could be blackoperators too, posing as victims)</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And what's this harping about volunteering Jeff to arbitrate people 'proving their bonafides?? From what I've seen, the intimidation and name-calling hasn't come from those you've listed.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">It is the only means I can see to get people to either put up or shut up. It is directed at possible disruptors who SHOULD have a real and viable cover story even if they are pro-perps --- but at least Jeff will know exactly who you are and keep an eye on you. I have done this and urge others who are sincere to do so. It cuts through a lot of the bullshit quickly. Unless one doesn't trust Jeff or believes their info will be gleaned by the extremists or anyone else: they should ante up their info.<br><br>I imagine that blackoperators will obfuscate on this point and blather, but otherwise, in my mind, they are just dissembling and breaking.</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It's like, having started-off on a track of criticizing JM for questioning Biao's conclusions on a trivial point and slamming him for use of the qualified descriptor 'hysterical' (for which he's apologized at-least -twice- : a more appropriate word to describe the apparant jumping to a hasty conclusion based on a very weak evidence link not even supported by a testable argument might have been impulsive, desperate, reactionary, over-eager or presumptuous -- and the distinction has to be made that JM wasn't making a character-slur but stating his impression of the impulse itself by which a leap of logic is made) you just can't back down or get back on-topic, but elevated this apparant but silly disagreement into a conspiracy including Tabasco and Avalon, even alleging some kind of sinister, organized black-ops agenda.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><br>Interesting - you say the "disagreement is "silly" and you say that instead of hysterical Biao's thoughts should have been called "a hasty conclusion based on weak evidence link not even supported by a testable argument" and "impulsive, desperate, reactionary, over-eager or presumptuous"<br><br>You compound the insults to Baio and defend the insult argument and then, irrationally, embrace Baio's proposal in some obtuse and transparent false effort at conciliation or alliance with Biao, whom you have further insulted and demeaned. How neat!</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>I am not elevating the "silly disagreement" into a conspiracy. I am basically saying that the attack on Baio seems to me to be a concerted effort to throw the discussions off track and to try to discredit those who are investigating and discussing the BFEE related RA issues; the primary purpose being to prevent this movement and this board from growing and having credibility.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I just don't see it.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Take your blinders off. Open your eyes. Or wake up.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The escalating argument about intentions and accusations that developed over the relatively innocuous stating of opinion and asking for elaboration has been little more than silly, entirely off the point and from what I can see, argumentative for the sake of being combative; not constructive at all.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>If you think calling a victim hysterical because they identify the RA they have experienced and have discussed here at RI with Thelemic fundamentalism (which is really, after all, just a modest opinion regarding how to best describe the perpetrators) is an "innocuous stating of opinion and asking for elaboration" - then I imagine that you can come up with a thesaurus full of euphemisms for insulting and trying to discredit victims of the BFEE and their necrophile apologists.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>