i had a huge response
i had a huge response too Andrew Lilly's response to my response of his response of my statement about cuba, which was a response to mark trew's response to my earlier post, down there. sh-t, that sorta hurt to type. i took it down. i put it in the comments section of the post below. Andrew please feel free to respond to it, i like the way you express your thoughts and the amount of information you have in that little head of yours (i have no idea if it is a little head, but its a nice cliche), but i'm done. I always get bored of debates, especially political ones. the fact is while i have opinions, i don't really care. sure i think its interesting, but mostly i'm just in it for the fight. thats not a great reason to debate something. if you can argue either side, you're probably in it for suspect reasons. (i can argue both sides of that argument too)
i really don't care what other people believe, except theological stuff. and most of that is only the basic stuff. the out there stuff i'm into doesn't really matter. if you call yourself a Christian, i'll have some expectations and i expect you to have some of me. if you don't call yourself a Christian, do whatever you want. i don't care. i might feel sorry for you, and i'll probably pray for you, but i really have no reason to expect anything of you. that wasn't aimed at anybody in particular, just a statement of fact.
the point is debates are fun but if it takes to much out of me and doesn't really matter to me i get bored. maybe i need more intelligent friends that challenge me more. wait, i probably just insulted alot of people. ah what the .............
ps; andrew if you see anything else in a post you want to challenge go for it. i'll probably bite.
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I sort of understand what you are saying, but I don't think that intelligent friends would solve anything. In fact I think you have a lot more intelligent friends than you realize. (They just like to avoid conflict) The problem is that the people who would measure up to what you say intellectually are somewhat intimidated by how you present your opinions. I don't mean this as an insult, I just think that could be a factor. You actually have a lot of important and influencial things to say, but because you like a 'good fight' as you said it becomes difficult for people to discuss with you without thinking you are angry at them. (And I know that you aren't) By the way, happy birthday. ;-)
Posted by: Rie | April 19, 2004 5:07 PM
oh i know i'm a bitch. and i'm ok with some people wanting not to discuss things with me, and i usually get pretty animated when i want people to prove exactly what they're saying. but its funny cause some people (like mark) i can have an incredibly deep discussion about theology with and feel good about it. but if it comes to a debate about anything else i'm screwed. its probably because everything else i seem to come into it with the attitude "this is what i think and either totally prove me wrong or shut the hell up". like i said i'm a bitch.
Posted by: maw | April 19, 2004 5:53 PM
Well, I wouldn't go that far. By the way, when are you going to link Jer and I silly? What a bitchy thing to do! (ha ha) Just jokes.
Posted by: Rie | April 19, 2004 7:11 PM