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So, muslims do not approve of what muhammed did? Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 02:33 AM 1/1/2013, Jojo Jaro wrote: So, muslims approve of marriage with sexual relations to a 9 year old menstruating little girl?''' There are only 2 possible answers: Yes or No. But let's see how Lomax will spin this. The general answer is No. But it is also possible to find a situation where the answer would be Yes. I haven't asked muslims, and it's clear that some Muslims would just answer No, and those that would answer Yes would not answer so unconditionally. A great deal would depend, as with all polls, on how the question is asked. Remember, the general answer is No. So how could it be Yes? 1. The society recognizes her as married and that she has reached the conditions of consent. 2. The parents have approved of the marriage. 3. The marriage is not otherwise illegal. and all of this probably requires 4. She does not resemble what comes to *our* mind when we say 9 year old menstruating little girl. She just happens to be, we know because it was assumed in the question, nine years old. Jojo PS. Note that 2 respected and venerated muslim sources (Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari) have indicated that A'isha was indeed 9 years old when muhammed started having intercourse with her; yet you find Lomax still attempting to throw confusion as to Aisha age. Yet he does not say exactly what age he believes A'isha was when muhammed consumated the marriage. Jojo keeps repeating Muslim and Bukhari like a mantra. We have reviewed what they said. They don't mention intercourse, per se. There is a much weaker tradition from Abu Dawud, cited on the Christian polemic site, translated there, that purports to say that they had intercourse when she was nine. But translators often substitute whatever meaning they think is going to explain the situation. So what we know from the *translation* of Abu Dawud is that the translator believed it was about consummation. Was an actual word for intercourse used? I don't know. I didn't see a reliable source on this, and I don't have Abu Dawud. I have consistently written that *it is possible* that Ayesha was nine. Which could mean almost ten and birthdays were not celebrated. A statement of age like this, perhaps made eighty years later (!) can only be taken as something approximate. She was young! She was his youngest wife, and the only virgin wife. As has been pointed out, one of the problems with hadith about Ayesha is that Sunnis were anxious to establish her as the most favored wife, for political reasons, and her youth was emphasized to make the virgin point. She had been betrothed before. (Don't these guys notice that?) (Don't these guys notice that, had Muhammad been dominated by his sexuality, he could have had whatever he wanted?) So Lomax, based on your considerable research into this topic, what was A'isha age when muhammed started having intercourse with her? It's not found in the sources, most of them. The considerable research I have done consists of a few days reading sources on the internet, checking what books I have, and that's it. What's clear -- it's easy to find -- is that many sources do say nine. However, when we look more closely at that, they are assuming that being taken to his house means they were having intercourse. Maybe. Maybe not. Again, it is very clear that many Muslim sources do consider that a girl at nine *might* be able to give consent. What the critics don't realize is that age is not a condition, maturity is, and there are other conditions. There is *no* opinion that a nine-year old girl is marriageable unless a set of conditions have been met. We found, from the Christian web page, only Maududi saying something like that, and Maududi is basically, to be blunt, an idiot. (Even Maududi, though, would agree about the additional conditions, he was just being incautious.) There would obviously be exceptions, but I learned early on not to rely on Pakistanis for the religion. I actually accepted Islam at the suggestion of a Pakistani professor of Farsi, and for years I assumed that he knew Arabic. No. When a real question came up, all he could do was repeat what he'd been told, and when I tried to point to the Qur'anic verses on it, he was helpless and hopeless, and the opinion he'd given me, about divorce, was dead wrong. And he'd followed the defective advice himself! What he was claiming was the *only* way to divorce was actually, from authoritative sources, merely allowed, far from the best. (The best is simple, not abusive, and does not involve anger or preventing reconciliation even after divorce. His way, I later came to understand, actually violates the law of divorce, but he's not the only
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: I was astounded to see that painting, I thought perhaps it had been hacked. But it appears to not be an anachronism, though the glasses certainly look modern. Live and learn. Serious comment: People in the past often had better technology and more knowledge than we give them credit for. For example, from ancient times most educated people knew that the world is round. Greek astronomers estimated the size of the world with pretty good accuracy. It is myth that sailors or the nobility opposed Columbus because they thought he might sail off the edge of the world. This myth was invented out of whole cloth in the 19th century. They opposed Columbus because they had better knowledge of size of the earth and of the Eurasian continent, and they knew that Asia was too far away to reach with his ships sailing west. If he had not bumped into the Americas he would have starved long before he reached Asia. - Jed
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At 03:29 AM 1/2/2013, Jojo Jaro wrote: So, muslims do not approve of what muhammed did? My post was clear. Muslims vary in opinion, but, speaking generally: Muslims do not approve of what Jojo claims Muhammad did. Some Muslims approve of some aspects of what Jojo claims. No Muslims approve of what Jojo claims in toto. Some Muslims deny the foundations of Jojo's claim, i.e., the age reports, and often disapprove of the behavior that Jojo describes. I have yet to see a sober, clear, scholarly report on this issue by a mainstream Muslim scholar. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but that it could be hard to find amid the avalanche of Christian polemic on the issue. This was Jojo's full post, which included a copy of my post, to which he was responding: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg74993.html Jojo's question was redundant and provocative.
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Ok, and this ends my participation in this exchange. Harry On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:16 PM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com wrote: Both are false. On Dec 31, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Harry
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Excellent my friend. You skill at spin is commendable, were it not misguided. Heck, if you reject my claims, you would have to reject Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari; cause they were the muslims works that documented my claims. Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 3:09 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 03:29 AM 1/2/2013, Jojo Jaro wrote: So, muslims do not approve of what muhammed did? My post was clear. Muslims vary in opinion, but, speaking generally: Muslims do not approve of what Jojo claims Muhammad did. Some Muslims approve of some aspects of what Jojo claims. No Muslims approve of what Jojo claims in toto. Some Muslims deny the foundations of Jojo's claim, i.e., the age reports, and often disapprove of the behavior that Jojo describes. I have yet to see a sober, clear, scholarly report on this issue by a mainstream Muslim scholar. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but that it could be hard to find amid the avalanche of Christian polemic on the issue. This was Jojo's full post, which included a copy of my post, to which he was responding: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg74993.html Jojo's question was redundant and provocative.
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Ok, and this ends my participation in this exchange. Harry On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:16 PM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com wrote: Both are false. On Dec 31, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Harry
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Latest news: Pope Catholic, Troll Continues Trolling At 11:45 PM 12/31/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: OK, Lomax, you have had your last word. As promised, I am not insulting back and letting it be. Please end this. Unless you want to continue the exchange. Jojo PS. Note that this response is a plea to end the insult cycle and not in any way insulting to anybody even Lomax. Let the record show that I am ending this nonsense. Let's see how long Lomax can refrain from insulting me some more. Note I have stop calling Lomax a liar so that I am not insulting him anymore. And then he proceeds to attempt an insult. As for Joseph and I, you can believe what you want. It's funny why Lomax finds it such a astute observation that he found out I was in the Philippines when I have very openly written about it everywhere. Believe what you want Lomax. I did not write or claim astute observation, and what I posted was indeed openly available. I believe nothing. But especially I don't believe that Jojo has any intention of stopping. Within eleven minutes of the above, he'd written another post repeating his tropes. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg74906.html Aside from the usual, he calls me a moderate westernized muslim. No, I'm a muslimized radical American. At least that's how some Muslims look at me, but they have some doubt about the muslim part. As I do about them. Jojo continued to post, arguing his usual points, 14 posts, including the above, *after* he promised to stop. The post above repeated the promise *as it violated it.* I was once banned on Wikipedia, from posting to the cold fusion article or talk page. I wrote, on the talk page, Okay, I'll not post here. He blocked me for that. (He actually had no authority to ban.) Okay, so nobody's perfect. But, ah Jojo came up with one item of interest to me, and it's under a descriptive OT subject title. So I may look at that and respond. What Jojo finds, searching for them, are deceptive arguments, arguments that can appear reasonable to someone not familiar with the topics. He came up with a new one, at least, new to me. We see arguments like this all the time from pseudoskeptics. Real skeptics are valuable, and sometimes hard to find. Everyone has their beliefs. A real skeptic is just as skeptical of their own beliefs as they are of others. Maybe even more skeptical!
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Latest news: Pope Catholic, Troll Continues Trolling The Pope is trolling?!? I have heard he Tweets. Now this! I guess it is an effort to bring the Church into the Modern Era and appeal to Youth. He is keeping up with the latest technology, like Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara, the Grand Inquisitor, wearing glasses in 1600: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.5 This was like posing with a laptop. In his case, it would display a list of naughty and nice people. People who never expected the Spanish Inquisition! - Jed
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At 02:28 PM 1/1/2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Latest news: Pope Catholic, Troll Continues Trolling The Pope is trolling?!? I have heard he Tweets. Now this! Hah! No, the Pope is not trolling. This was just the Latest News, the Pope is Catholic. Amazing, eh? Who woulda thunk it? And an unnamed troll continues trolling. My apologies to the Holy Father for mentioning his position in apposition to a troll. I guess it is an effort to bring the Church into the Modern Era and appeal to Youth. He is keeping up with the latest technology, like Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara, the Grand Inquisitor, wearing glasses in 1600: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.5http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.5 This was like posing with a laptop. In his case, it would display a list of naughty and nice people. People who never expected the Spanish Inquisition! - Jed I was astounded to see that painting, I thought perhaps it had been hacked. But it appears to not be an anachronism, though the glasses certainly look modern. Live and learn. I will excuse my offense to the Pope by hastily adopting Jed's helpful gloss, that the headline was about Naught and Nice, but in reverse order.
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Both are false. On Dec 31, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Harry On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49 AM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com wrote: That a statement is endlessly repeated does not make it true. I posted at length on the family practices of the Arabian peninsula, as they pertained to Christian, Jewish, and pantheistic communities, and to the pre-revelatory emergence of Islam, which limited some of the practices that many people today criticize. But Jojo seems not to have seen this posting, though he did say he would respond to it (and this I hope from his own knowledge rather than assertian-based pseudo-sources), for he repeats assertions that are shown in the posting to be flat-out incorrect. On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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At 02:33 AM 1/1/2013, Jojo Jaro wrote: So, muslims approve of marriage with sexual relations to a 9 year old menstruating little girl?''' There are only 2 possible answers: Yes or No. But let's see how Lomax will spin this. The general answer is No. But it is also possible to find a situation where the answer would be Yes. I haven't asked muslims, and it's clear that some Muslims would just answer No, and those that would answer Yes would not answer so unconditionally. A great deal would depend, as with all polls, on how the question is asked. Remember, the general answer is No. So how could it be Yes? 1. The society recognizes her as married and that she has reached the conditions of consent. 2. The parents have approved of the marriage. 3. The marriage is not otherwise illegal. and all of this probably requires 4. She does not resemble what comes to *our* mind when we say 9 year old menstruating little girl. She just happens to be, we know because it was assumed in the question, nine years old. Jojo PS. Note that 2 respected and venerated muslim sources (Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari) have indicated that A'isha was indeed 9 years old when muhammed started having intercourse with her; yet you find Lomax still attempting to throw confusion as to Aisha age. Yet he does not say exactly what age he believes A'isha was when muhammed consumated the marriage. Jojo keeps repeating Muslim and Bukhari like a mantra. We have reviewed what they said. They don't mention intercourse, per se. There is a much weaker tradition from Abu Dawud, cited on the Christian polemic site, translated there, that purports to say that they had intercourse when she was nine. But translators often substitute whatever meaning they think is going to explain the situation. So what we know from the *translation* of Abu Dawud is that the translator believed it was about consummation. Was an actual word for intercourse used? I don't know. I didn't see a reliable source on this, and I don't have Abu Dawud. I have consistently written that *it is possible* that Ayesha was nine. Which could mean almost ten and birthdays were not celebrated. A statement of age like this, perhaps made eighty years later (!) can only be taken as something approximate. She was young! She was his youngest wife, and the only virgin wife. As has been pointed out, one of the problems with hadith about Ayesha is that Sunnis were anxious to establish her as the most favored wife, for political reasons, and her youth was emphasized to make the virgin point. She had been betrothed before. (Don't these guys notice that?) (Don't these guys notice that, had Muhammad been dominated by his sexuality, he could have had whatever he wanted?) So Lomax, based on your considerable research into this topic, what was A'isha age when muhammed started having intercourse with her? It's not found in the sources, most of them. The considerable research I have done consists of a few days reading sources on the internet, checking what books I have, and that's it. What's clear -- it's easy to find -- is that many sources do say nine. However, when we look more closely at that, they are assuming that being taken to his house means they were having intercourse. Maybe. Maybe not. Again, it is very clear that many Muslim sources do consider that a girl at nine *might* be able to give consent. What the critics don't realize is that age is not a condition, maturity is, and there are other conditions. There is *no* opinion that a nine-year old girl is marriageable unless a set of conditions have been met. We found, from the Christian web page, only Maududi saying something like that, and Maududi is basically, to be blunt, an idiot. (Even Maududi, though, would agree about the additional conditions, he was just being incautious.) There would obviously be exceptions, but I learned early on not to rely on Pakistanis for the religion. I actually accepted Islam at the suggestion of a Pakistani professor of Farsi, and for years I assumed that he knew Arabic. No. When a real question came up, all he could do was repeat what he'd been told, and when I tried to point to the Qur'anic verses on it, he was helpless and hopeless, and the opinion he'd given me, about divorce, was dead wrong. And he'd followed the defective advice himself! What he was claiming was the *only* way to divorce was actually, from authoritative sources, merely allowed, far from the best. (The best is simple, not abusive, and does not involve anger or preventing reconciliation even after divorce. His way, I later came to understand, actually violates the law of divorce, but he's not the only one who thinks as he thinks.) It took me years to recover from the bad Arabic pronunciation. They pronounce Arabic *as if it were Farsi.* The message to which Jojo was responding is at http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg74903.html I
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OK , Lomax, you are an expert in deception and twist and spin. I bow to your skill and go away. The entire list can document this time that I am letting Lomax have the last word. I will no longer post unless asked a specific question or insulted whether directly or in reference. Please let this escalating round of insults end. I'm tired. One of my new year's resolution is not to engage with Lomax anymore. Can't win with liars? (I know I know, but you may insult me back one more time and I will not respond. But I will respond to further insults beyond one.) Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 12:45 AM 12/31/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Herein is the fallacy of your comments. You claim that the insults are mild, and that I do not have the right to respond to mild insults. Beautiful. My post is quoted below. I did not claim that Jojo did not have the right to respond. I don't see that I called the insults mild. Some comments that Jojo responded to were mild, one was essentially Fuck you. This is the lie you keep on propagating. Whether the insult in mild or grave is not for you to decide. I didn't say mild. But I do have the right to my opinions. Opinions like mild or grave are not fact. The person that the insult is directed at is the person that has the right to decide whether the insult was mild or grave. You have no right to claim that I should not be offended because in your eyes, the insult is mild. That's bullcrap. I did not say that Jojo should not be offended. Heck, in my eyes, calling allah a moon god and calling muhammed a sex pervert is a mild insult; yet I do not go around and lie that your response to me was improper because I only mildly insulted you. The graveness of the insult is the gravenes of how the recipient have percieved it. The recipient's perception is the only valid basis for deciding whether an insult is mild or grave. By this standard, then, given that many *would* respond to those statements as highly offensive, and given that one list member was obviously so highly insulted by Jojo's comments that he responded with fuck you, Jojo has just condemned himself as having issued grave insults without grave provocation. Jojo's comment in that case was actually mild -- my opinion --, by comparison with others, but it had an effect that could have been predicted. All my insults have always been a response to an insult, whether personal, as in F*** yourself or general as in the Bible is a fairy tale or The Bible is written by illiterate goat herders. Both statements are false, and insulting whether they are personal or general. For the same reason why you feel that I have insulted you by calling muhammed a sex pervert. No, you did not insult me by saying that. You insulted friends of mine, and you insulted me by calling me a liar when I described what you had done *accurately,* often with links, and by dismissing the product of my sincere research as lies, without actually pointing out *one lie,* and totally disregarding evidence. You seem to think that my vigorous response to an insult is unwarranted because the initial insults are mild. Seem is the operative word here. It seems so to Jojo. I don't think Jojo's response was unwarranted, but I'll say right now that it was insane, it was excessive for Vortex, which is a *social judgment.* That is not for you to decide my friend. You have no right to dictate the level of response I give out. That's correct. Jojo decides, and Jojo is responsible for what Jojo does, and cannot shift responsibility to others because he perceives them as insulting him. But I can assure you, I take great pains in deciding the level of nastiness I give back. I take considerable consideration that it is always calibrated to the level of nastiness directed my way. Jojo From this mail, as is common here, the judgment is deranged. Insults have been perceived when there was none. Jojo fantastizes about what has been said about him. When the truth is written, he *reads contempt into it.* That reveals how he actually thinks about himself. A turd, he called himself in several posts. It's all made up. He is not a turd. Satan tells him he is, and he fights with Satan, something that Jesus advised against. He projects this war all over us. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads
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I went digging through my Junk eMail folder to find what I was sure would be a response from Mr.Jaro. Mr. Jaro replied: And the provocations and insults continue. Since you are clearly incapable of conprehending simple English prose. I will spell it out for you. I drank a total of about 5 bottles of beer and I drank all of it before I was 20 years old. I haven't touched alcohol since then to the present. Jeepers, I thought I was clear. No wonder, we have a lot of conflict here. People's comprehension skills are just lacking. Indeed, I'm a flawed individual, Jojo. Nobodies' perfect... certainly not me. Thank god for that. So, you don't drink. Rigidly so. It strikes me that something very powerful about the effects of alcohol. more precisely the effects of alcoholism, must have made a huge impression on you. Why have you deliberately chosen not to touch a drop of alcohol since you were 20 years old? Did you personally witness the destructive power of alcoholism in some of the immediate care givers who were supposed to have been raising you? What happened? What did you do? More to the point, what did they do to you? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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That a statement is endlessly repeated does not make it true. I posted at length on the family practices of the Arabian peninsula, as they pertained to Christian, Jewish, and pantheistic communities, and to the pre-revelatory emergence of Islam, which limited some of the practices that many people today criticize. But Jojo seems not to have seen this posting, though he did say he would respond to it (and this I hope from his own knowledge rather than assertian-based pseudo-sources), for he repeats assertions that are shown in the posting to be flat-out incorrect. On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Harry On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49 AM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com wrote: That a statement is endlessly repeated does not make it true. I posted at length on the family practices of the Arabian peninsula, as they pertained to Christian, Jewish, and pantheistic communities, and to the pre-revelatory emergence of Islam, which limited some of the practices that many people today criticize. But Jojo seems not to have seen this posting, though he did say he would respond to it (and this I hope from his own knowledge rather than assertian-based pseudo-sources), for he repeats assertions that are shown in the posting to be flat-out incorrect. On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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Below, Jojo promised to allow me the last word. This is it. It really doesn't matter, though, because I'm done. anyway I already shut down response in other threads. There are issues raised in these exchanges that can be of value, but they are also basically off-topic. The relevance I could assert is that they reveal a certain type of thinking that is not all that uncommon, it is merely extremely visible with Jojo. Jojo is demonstrating a hazard that we are all subject to. To avoid it requires care and a willingness to self-examine. At 03:46 AM 12/31/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: OK , Lomax, you are an expert in deception and twist and spin. I bow to your skill and go away. All Jojo would have to do is acknowledge errors or misinterpretations on his part. My skill is only hard work. It takes time to research the issues raised. It takes time to write something coherent. And, yes, it takes time, though much less time, to read what's found. What trolls do, mostly, is waste time. Is Jojo a troll? A troll is someone who has, as a motive, insulting or enraging others. Motive can be difficult to discern, but, observing Jojo since his participation in Vortex started to go south, yes, Jojo intends to outrage. This is connected, for him, with responding to insults, i.e., to a belief that one must respond in kind to insults, and it is also connected to correcting propaganda, except that Jojo has, many times, *introduced* highly controversial topics, connected with politics and religion, when he either thought he was being insulted, or he saw his *beliefs* as being insulted. He introduces them, obviously, because he wants to insult back someone, so he picks a topic that he thinks will outrage them. And he's not precise, the topic is a shotgun blast, with massive collateral damage. That the damage *usually* does not appear is only because the readership of Vortex is relatively small, and most people just shrug stuff off. He knew and expected that his use of Vortex to promote his beliefs (or correct the beliefs of others) would be disruptive. He referred to it many times. But he took nearly every excuse to do it. I documented how this behavior first showed, previously, http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg74768.html The entire list can document this time that I am letting Lomax have the last word. I will no longer post unless asked a specific question or insulted whether directly or in reference. Please let this escalating round of insults end. I'm tired. The exchange will end as he says, if he keeps his word. It's not merely a round of insults. That's what *Jojo* does. Above, I describe what a troll is, and I provide some level of argument that could lead to a conclusion of trolling *in effect*. Is that an insult? Jojo has consistently claimed that his comments about Obama and supporters, about Muhammad and his wife Ayesha, about what a billion people worship as God, calling Allah a Moon god, about people who are concerned about global warming, about Christians other than a narrow group, about people who accept the evolution of species, and about many participants on this list, are just the truth, and therefore not insults. I research topics that come up, and report the results. I don't research irrelevant topics and then dump the results here. On list-irrelevant topics, I don't start discussions here as new threads, other than in error or to pull an irrelevant topic out of a thread where it's disruptive. I have, many times, asked for errors to be corrected. In the absence of that correction, and where what I've said isn't obviously mere opinion, where it was based on cited evidence, I must assume that what I've written is either true or at least reasonable. Yet Jojo has, many times, called it lies. It's fairly clear that his reading comprehension is poor, he doesn't understand what sources mean. He's mistaken comment that is not about him at all, as being about him, a clear example came up yesterday with Axil. He calls my posts lies because he does not like what conclusions may be drawn from them, and he assumes conclusions and states them as if they are what I've said. Frequently. But my posts are just a collection of facts and thought. Facts are not lies, they are just what's so. If a source conveys an untruth, and the source is cited as saying what is untrue, it is not a lie to state what is in the source, if it's attributed, because *it's in the source.* Science begins with this kind of detachment from opinion and judgment. I do not always distinguish my thoughts as such; but my thoughts are only my reactions. If reported as my reactions, they are, again, not lies. They are just my reactions, and, again, that's just what's so. My reactions and thoughts are not truth, nor are they lies. They are just reactions. This is so for everyone who is not God. It's easy for anyone with the training to recognize the
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LOL LOL LOL At least one person is seeing thru the fog of spin and deception put up by Lomax. My job is done and is an unqualified success. Jojo PS. I have proven both statements to be true. A'isha was indeed a little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS as evidenced by her preoccupation with dolls. Which adult woman who is emotionally mature would bring dolls to her wedding. Of course, Lomax spins this saying that this is just like a Doll collector bringing dolls to her new home. But, honest and objective people know that that is not the case. She brought her dolls because she was still playing with it. Second, Lomax have proven it to everybody that muslims do indeed approve of sexual relations with a 9 year old. This is shocking to me cause I truly expected Lomax (being a moderate westernized muslim), to oppose and condemn muhammed's retrograde action. Yet, to my shock and amazement, he actually defended and tried to justify it. - Original Message - From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Harry On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49 AM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com wrote: That a statement is endlessly repeated does not make it true. I posted at length on the family practices of the Arabian peninsula, as they pertained to Christian, Jewish, and pantheistic communities, and to the pre-revelatory emergence of Islam, which limited some of the practices that many people today criticize. But Jojo seems not to have seen this posting, though he did say he would respond to it (and this I hope from his own knowledge rather than assertian-based pseudo-sources), for he repeats assertions that are shown in the posting to be flat-out incorrect. On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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I believe I've responded to it my friend, just not directly to you. My response to you was the same response to Lomax. My response is repeated below: Just because the practice of sexual relations with 9 year old little girls was common, widespread and accepted in the Arabian peninsula during the time of muhammed does not mean that the practice is not CREEPY. Hindus have corrected this same practice and stopped having sexual relations with little girls several hundred years prior to muhammed's time. The Hindus did it, and yet a progressive prophet like muhammed did not stop this retrograde practice. My friend, just because your neighbors do it, does not mean you have to do it. Nor that it justify your actions. Molesting 9 year old little girls is just CREEPY, abhorrent and wrong, whatever the time period, or whatever everyone else is doing. Jojo PS. Note that this response is not a violation of my promise to stop insulting. Note that this is not an insult, just true facts. And this is also a post directed to me. I said I promised to stop posting unless there are insults or question directed to me. This is a question directed to me. - Original Message - From: de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity That a statement is endlessly repeated does not make it true. I posted at length on the family practices of the Arabian peninsula, as they pertained to Christian, Jewish, and pantheistic communities, and to the pre-revelatory emergence of Islam, which limited some of the practices that many people today criticize. But Jojo seems not to have seen this posting, though he did say he would respond to it (and this I hope from his own knowledge rather than assertian-based pseudo-sources), for he repeats assertions that are shown in the posting to be flat-out incorrect. On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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No my friend, no family members or caregivers were alcoholics. 10 for fishing effort though. No, I did not drink alcohol when I was younger because I was allergic to it. Since, I never acquired this bad habit when I was younger, I never thought of acquiring it now. Besides, after my conversion, I now find no redeeming value or pleasure in drinking beer. I hate the taste and it's deleterious effects on the body and my health. Drunkeness is a cause of many sins and problems in one's life. I have even limitted alcohol consumption of those people who work for me in my farm. They don't know it yet, but I have just done them a great favor that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Jojo PS. I consider this insult to be your last word that I said I would allow. Please refrain from further insults. Note, that I have not insulted you in this response, so you do indeed have the last insult. - Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:36 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:List integrity I went digging through my Junk eMail folder to find what I was sure would be a response from Mr.Jaro. Mr. Jaro replied: And the provocations and insults continue. Since you are clearly incapable of conprehending simple English prose. I will spell it out for you. I drank a total of about 5 bottles of beer and I drank all of it before I was 20 years old. I haven't touched alcohol since then to the present. Jeepers, I thought I was clear. No wonder, we have a lot of conflict here. People's comprehension skills are just lacking. Indeed, I'm a flawed individual, Jojo. Nobodies' perfect... certainly not me. Thank god for that. So, you don't drink. Rigidly so. It strikes me that something very powerful about the effects of alcohol. more precisely the effects of alcoholism, must have made a huge impression on you. Why have you deliberately chosen not to touch a drop of alcohol since you were 20 years old? Did you personally witness the destructive power of alcoholism in some of the immediate care givers who were supposed to have been raising you? What happened? What did you do? More to the point, what did they do to you? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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So, muslims approve of marriage with sexual relations to a 9 year old menstruating little girl?''' There are only 2 possible answers: Yes or No. But let's see how Lomax will spin this. Jojo PS. Note that 2 respected and venerated muslim sources (Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari) have indicated that A'isha was indeed 9 years old when muhammed started having intercourse with her; yet you find Lomax still attempting to throw confusion as to Aisha age. Yet he does not say exactly what age he believes A'isha was when muhammed consumated the marriage. So Lomax, based on your considerable research into this topic, what was A'isha age when muhammed started having intercourse with her? - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 05:31 PM 12/31/2012, Harry Veeder wrote: Sorry I am confused. What is considered false here? A nine year old is barely out diapers or that muslims do not disapprove of sexual relations with a nine year old? Obviously a nine year old is not barely out of diapers. Muslims disapprove of sexual relations outside of marriage, so the issue is marriage (and specifically the consummation of marriage). Muslims disapprove of the consummation of a marraige with a girl who is not sexually mature, specifically mentstruating. It's considered rape, because mensturation is a condition for a woman having reached the age of consent. This is not the only condition; parents, generally, determine the right to consent as well, and girls are not automatically free to make their own choices until much later than nine. Marriage requires consent. Specifically, the woman must consent. Muslims disapprove of the marriage of minor children without parental consent. (This is the same as U.S. law, generally.) *Some* Muslims believe that the wife of the Prophet was nine when she was married, and assume that the marriage was consummated. But this is actually not solidly establshed. Nevertheless, *those Muslims* sometimes, from the example, allow 9 years old as a lower limit, but, in fact, the limit is sexual maturity -- or whatever standard is established by the society, *in addition to parental consent.* (Technically, the wali consents, who is usually the father, but it can be others. A free woman sometimes appoints a wali, I've served.) *Most* Muslims disapprove of marriage that is not recognised by the society in which the parties live. Because of law in the United States, then, and in that place, Muslims disapprove of sexual relations with a nine-year old, no matter what the state of sexual maturity or parental consent. Under other conditions, their opinion might differ. All these discussions were about the *limits*. U.S. law, in some states, if I'm correct, still sets no minimum age for marriage, but requires judicial consent below a certain age, sometimes 14.
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Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. If calling for the proper transparency and objectivity from Darwinian Evolutionist is an insult, then yes, I've insulted them (Notice how Lomax clouds the issue. My problem is with Darwinian Evolutionists, not Evolutionary Biogists. This is the crux of the issue. Everyone is lulled into the belief that evolution automatically mean Darwinian Evolution. It does not. I happen to believe in evolution also. I believe in microevolution because I can see it with my own eyes. I haven't seen a turtle turn into a bird. LOL...) If telling the truth about muhammed and his practice of dozens of wives and concubines is an insult, then yes, I've insulted him. (It's your problem if you find the truth about your prophet offensive.) Not sure how I could have insulted A'isha. I have not insulted Abraham and Sarah. I pointed out that what they did was wrong. Even the Angel that promised Sarah a son corrected Abraham in this matter saying that the son you born with Haggar (Sarah's maid) will not inherit Abraham's wealth. He put aside the illegitimate child (Ishmael) in favor for the promised child (Isaac). I understand muslims find this offensive because they (modern muslim arabs) predominantly descended from the lineage of Ishmael, so they like to claim first born preferencial kinship to Abraham, but that is in fact not what the Bible said. Isaac was to be the one in favor over Ishmael. Ishmael was to be sent away. If muslims find the truth about their god and prophet an insult, then yes, I have insulted muslims by saying their god is the moon god of muhammed's tribe and muhammed had dozens of wives and concubines and had a 9 year old sex toy. All of which is the truth. So, muslims find the truth offensive. Interesting. Which Hawaiian State Registrar are you referring to? Name please? Are you implying that he or she has seen the original Birth Certificate. If so, I'd be curious if he said that the scanned copy he saw on the Internet is the same as the vault copy. As far as I know, no state official has actually said that the BC on the Internet was accurate. All they said was that they have the oriignal copy of Obama's BC under vault. They never mentioned anything about what it contained. Everyone was too afraid to cross the Illuminati. But other than these people that I have insulted, have I actually insulted anyone in Vortex-l first without being insulted first? Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 09:29 PM 12/29/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: ... my caustic postings are exclusively directed at people who insult me; I challenged anyone to sieve thru the archives to see if I have insulted people who have not insulted me. Barack Obama. Evolutionary biologists. Muhammad. His wife, Ayesha. Abraham and his wife Sarah. Every Muslim on the planet. (That's, what, one out of four people?) I could add, for example, the Hawaiian State Registrar, who apparently does not exist in Jojo's eyes, or is lying. Qutie obviously, Bill has examined the situation in Vortex-L and has seen that what I am doing here does not deserve banning like many of these trolls would like to advocate. But if he does ban me due to mob pressure, I will still not change my response to obvious bullies. I doubt very much that Bill has looked at the situation. Bill will not respond to mob pressure, I'm sure. I have not advocated banning Jojo. I've advocated warning him.
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I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I refrained from responding about Darwinian Evolution for so long - that is; that I value this forum so much, that I do not want to involve other topics in this forum other than Cold Fusion. I wish people would not use this forum for propaganda of their beliefs and then exclude other points of view; just like what Parks, Huzienga, and others are doing wrt to Hot fusion. However, he then proceeded to challenge Jed Rothwell, who had responded civilly to Jojo. However, Jed noted that Jojo was ignorant. That kind of comment is typically taken by Jojo as an insult. Rothwell promised to let Jojo have the last word. He kept that promise for that thread. The discusion of evolution continued a little, but other readers started to complain about off-topic. A thread on a cold fusion topic had been hijacked by the insertion of a discussion of Darwinian Evolution, based not, as Jojo has often claimed, on propaganda, but a mere reference to Darwin as a man with ideas that were not popular in his time, dicta. In the process, Jojo set up a *political argument.* Read the post! Then Jojo started a new thread, specifically on Darwinian Evolution, resent Sat, 26 May 2012 02:22:30 -0700. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66051.html He did not keep to his intention. He continued to poke at Jed. Jed had answered, and indicated intention not to respond further, and had not responded further. Others had made small comments. Yet Jojo's post mentioned Jed five times, in addition to continuing to quote Jed's original response. The mentions were not complimentary. Jed Rothwell did not bite. However, James Bowery did, becoming incensed that Jojo apparently would not consider an experiment to distinguish between Intelligent Design and Darwinian Evolution. The interchange revealed clearly that this was a *religious* argument.
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Dear Abd, we know the history; I think the solution is to answer strictly only those messages of Jojo which refer to LENR and ignoring the toxic ones. I am very worried why Bill Beaty does not answer to the complaining colleagues. Peter On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/** vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.**htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I refrained from responding about Darwinian Evolution for so long - that is; that I value this forum so much, that I do not want to involve other topics in this forum other than Cold Fusion. I wish people would not use this forum for propaganda of their beliefs and then exclude other points of view; just like what Parks, Huzienga, and others are doing wrt to Hot fusion. However, he then proceeded to challenge Jed Rothwell, who had responded civilly to Jojo. However, Jed noted that Jojo was ignorant. That kind of comment is typically taken by Jojo as an insult. Rothwell promised to let Jojo have the last word. He kept that promise for that thread. The discusion of evolution continued a little, but other readers started to complain about off-topic. A thread on a cold fusion topic had been hijacked by the insertion of a discussion of Darwinian Evolution, based not, as Jojo has often claimed, on propaganda, but a mere reference to Darwin as a man with ideas that were not popular in his time, dicta. In the process, Jojo set up a *political argument.* Read the post! Then Jojo started a new thread, specifically on Darwinian Evolution, resent Sat, 26 May 2012 02:22:30 -0700. http://www.mail-archive.com/**vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66051.**htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66051.html He did not keep to his intention. He continued to poke at Jed. Jed had answered, and indicated intention not to respond further, and had not responded
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It takes two to escalate and you guys have used up a lot of bandwidth one-upping each other. You are obviously both bright guys, I think your positive focused energies do much more good when spent solving world energy problems... On Sunday, December 30, 2012, Peter Gluck wrote: Dear Abd, we know the history; I think the solution is to answer strictly only those messages of Jojo which refer to LENR and ignoring the toxic ones. I am very worried why Bill Beaty does not answer to the complaining colleagues. Peter On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/** vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.**htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I refrained from responding about Darwinian Evolution for so long - that is; that I value this forum so much, that I do not want to involve other topics in this forum other than Cold Fusion. I wish people would not use this forum for propaganda of their beliefs and then exclude other points of view; just like what Parks, Huzienga, and others are doing wrt to Hot fusion. However, he then proceeded to challenge Jed Rothwell, who had responded civilly to Jojo. However, Jed noted that Jojo was ignorant. That kind of comment is typically taken by Jojo as an insult. Rothwell promised to let Jojo have the last word. He kept that promise for that thread. The discusion of evolution continued a little, but other readers started to complain about off-topic. A thread on a cold fusion topic had been hijacked by the insertion of a discussion of Darwinian Evolution, based not, as Jojo has often claimed, on propaganda, but a mere reference to Darwin -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
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been getting anywhere with efforts to challenge this, and it will be, in my opinion, totally moot if Congress certifies the second election. Unlike what many seem to think, if it *were* discovered that Obama were ineligible, this would, by itself, have zero effect on his first term as President, because Congress had the responsibility and authority to certify -- or reject -- the election, and chose to certify it in 2009. Congress could act now, by impeaching him, if they felt that necessary (what a waste of time! because it would have practically no legal effect, all of his actions as President would still stand). The birthers will have their last chance, coming up in a few days. If Congress ignores the birther claims, or rejects them, it's over. He's then the continuing President, even if actual proof were to come out that he was born in Kenya, even if his mother were merely a foster mother. It's called res judicata. There is a limit to controversy, legally. On the other hand, if proof comes out that he *lied*, that he committed perjury, on a matter like this, Congress could impeach him on those grounds, and remove him from office if he is found guilty. But he'd still be President until removed from office, and the Vice-President would become President. Don't hold your breath! - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 09:29 PM 12/29/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: ... my caustic postings are exclusively directed at people who insult me; I challenged anyone to sieve thru the archives to see if I have insulted people who have not insulted me. Barack Obama. Evolutionary biologists. Muhammad. His wife, Ayesha. Abraham and his wife Sarah. Every Muslim on the planet. (That's, what, one out of four people?) I could add, for example, the Hawaiian State Registrar, who apparently does not exist in Jojo's eyes, or is lying. Qutie obviously, Bill has examined the situation in Vortex-L and has seen that what I am doing here does not deserve banning like many of these trolls would like to advocate. But if he does ban me due to mob pressure, I will still not change my response to obvious bullies. I doubt very much that Bill has looked at the situation. Bill will not respond to mob pressure, I'm sure. I have not advocated banning Jojo. I've advocated warning him.
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Perhaps in that case, Jaro, we would all be served better if you WERE to start drinking. I'd start with a good rum and coke, I'd suggest Whaler's dark rum, one shot, poured into a can of cherry coke, with a couple of ice cubes. Very relaxing! Alexander Hollins (ps, your very declarations against certain religions is an insult to humanity as a whole.) On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: ** I haven't insulted anyone for over 24 hours now and I thought that things would start to simmer down as people stopped insulting me; and yet out of the blue, a fresh insult pops up to stoke new heat on the dying embers of the conflict. SVJ has admitted openly that he does this intentionally to provoke a strong reaction from me. This is the pattern of behavior that is the problem here in Vortex-L. Not me. For somebody who's worst drinking was less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first 2 decades of his life; an insinuation that I am an alcoholic is a grave insult. Please refrain from insults. Instead of acknowledging that my caustic postings are exclusively directed at people who insult me; SVJ comes up with an insult veiled as a crackpot theory of my alcoholism. This is the integrity of this list that has gone downhill. And contrary to some people's assertion, I am NOT the problem. I am the solution to this madness. I challenged anyone to sieve thru the archives to see if I have insulted people who have not insulted me. A few folks immediately come to mind. Have I insulted Axil, David Roberson, Fran Roarty, Jones Beene, Terry Blanton, Nigel Dyer, Mark Iverson, etc. These are some of the most intelligent scientific minds in this forum and they know how to behave like adults, unlike some self appointed experts and off-topic trolls here. So Lomax, SVJ, Rocha, Peter Gluck, Jouni and some thers don't like my opinions; as I don't like theirs. But I never start insulting them. They always start it. If I have a problem with them, I always direct it to personal email as I have done with Peter. That is the proper way for civilized individuals to act. Qutie obviously, Bill has examined the situation in Vortex-L and has seen that what I am doing here does not deserve banning like many of these trolls would like to advocate. But if he does ban me due to mob pressure, I will still not change my response to obvious bullies. Jojo - Original Message - *From:* OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:13 AM *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:List integrity From Mr. Lomax: ** ** ... But Jojo's writings here also vary in quality. Sometimes his spelling is atrocious, sometimes accurate. ** ** I have been wondering if Mr. Jaro drinks. In fact, for some time now I have wondered if Mr. Jaro drinks a lot. It might help explain some of his occasionally caustic posting behaviors. Alcoholism, among other issues.** ** ** ** It's possible that if one were to sift through the history of Mr. Jaro's postings one might begin to discern a distinct 24 hour pattern as to when his spelling tends to be accurate and when it becomes less so. Quite frankly, it's beyond my desire to care to find out. However there might be others on this list that might consider it an interesting challenge. ** ** I'm wondering if Jojo needs an intervention. (Not my department.) ** ** Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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leaking pen itsat...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps in that case, Jaro, we would all be served better if you WERE to start drinking. I'd start with a good rum and coke, I'd suggest Whaler's dark rum . . . Ahem. This recalls a song of my youth: We never eat fruitcake because it has rum, And one little bite turns a man to a bum. Oh can you imagine a greater disgrace, Then a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face? Away, away with run by gum, with rum by gum! Away, away with run by gum -- the song of the Temperance Union. - Jed
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Clearly, everyone can see that I started my posting on Vortex-L with clearly high hopes. Then you mentioned that I started insulting. Did you bother to mention why I started insulting. Did you mention that I started insulting people who insulted me first? If I told you to F*** yourself, is that an imagined insult? You clearly take it as an insult when I call allah a moon good, and yet feel that when people call the Bible a fairy tale, that is not an insult? Lomax, my friend, that is why I call you a LIAR. You take parts of history and pick and choose what you want to support your fallacious history. Even now, when things are starting to calm down, you and SVJ continue the cycle of insults by continuing this. That's the reason why I despise you and who you are to the core. You take fallacy and lies to the next level without any qualms about it. You spin and lie and deceive people with your expert use of long wordy essays and you find no problem with that. Of course not, why should you; that is who you are. That is what you are expected to be. That is what you are taught to be. Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. Jojo PS, But you win Lomax. My Christmas break is almost over. Come January, you will be left on your own to continue lying about me again. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I refrained from responding about Darwinian Evolution for so long - that is; that I value this forum so much, that I do not want
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Since I openly speculated about Mr. Jaro's habits I suspected he would respond. He did. I see that Jojo recently stated: For somebody who's worst drinking was less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first 2 decades of his life; an insinuation that I am an alcoholic is a grave insult. Please refrain from insults. Jojo, I apologize to you personally (and as such to everyone on the vortex-l list within hearing range) if my speculations that you might be an alcoholic are baseless. You seem to be implying that you aren't. You specifically stated that you have had less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first two decades of your life. First two decades of your life, you say? Are you really that young? If so, that would help explain a lot of your posting behavior. However... somehow I really don't think you're that young. Have you heard of the term: dry drunk? And then, there was something else you stated: I am NOT the problem. I am the solution to this madness. Really? That might also help explain your posting behavior... far more than baseless speculation on my part that you might be an alcoholic. Jeez! No wonder you 're so defensive and upset! Nothing seems to be going your way! I'd sure be upset too if I had gotten it into my head that I was the solution to this madness. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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You know that Mary was between probably 11 to 13 when she gave birth to Jesus, right? Menses was considered adulthood, and children were considered adults when they reached puberty, and treated that way, with all the rights and responsibilities. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: Clearly, everyone can see that I started my posting on Vortex-L with clearly high hopes. Then you mentioned that I started insulting. Did you bother to mention why I started insulting. Did you mention that I started insulting people who insulted me first? If I told you to F*** yourself, is that an imagined insult? You clearly take it as an insult when I call allah a moon good, and yet feel that when people call the Bible a fairy tale, that is not an insult? Lomax, my friend, that is why I call you a LIAR. You take parts of history and pick and choose what you want to support your fallacious history. Even now, when things are starting to calm down, you and SVJ continue the cycle of insults by continuing this. That's the reason why I despise you and who you are to the core. You take fallacy and lies to the next level without any qualms about it. You spin and lie and deceive people with your expert use of long wordy essays and you find no problem with that. Of course not, why should you; that is who you are. That is what you are expected to be. That is what you are taught to be. Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. Jojo PS, But you win Lomax. My Christmas break is almost over. Come January, you will be left on your own to continue lying about me again. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/** vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.**htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject
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How do you know that? Mary's Age? Jojo - Original Message - From: leaking pen To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity You know that Mary was between probably 11 to 13 when she gave birth to Jesus, right? Menses was considered adulthood, and children were considered adults when they reached puberty, and treated that way, with all the rights and responsibilities. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: Clearly, everyone can see that I started my posting on Vortex-L with clearly high hopes. Then you mentioned that I started insulting. Did you bother to mention why I started insulting. Did you mention that I started insulting people who insulted me first? If I told you to F*** yourself, is that an imagined insult? You clearly take it as an insult when I call allah a moon good, and yet feel that when people call the Bible a fairy tale, that is not an insult? Lomax, my friend, that is why I call you a LIAR. You take parts of history and pick and choose what you want to support your fallacious history. Even now, when things are starting to calm down, you and SVJ continue the cycle of insults by continuing this. That's the reason why I despise you and who you are to the core. You take fallacy and lies to the next level without any qualms about it. You spin and lie and deceive people with your expert use of long wordy essays and you find no problem with that. Of course not, why should you; that is who you are. That is what you are expected to be. That is what you are taught to be. Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. Jojo PS, But you win Lomax. My Christmas break is almost over. Come January, you will be left on your own to continue lying about me again. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l
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barely scratched the surface, I only reviewed the contributions through the first brouhaha -- is cherry-picked or in error, I invite correction *on specifics*, or supplying what is missing. There are a few people who have supported Jojo in certain ways, and I'd suggest that they either assist him by correcting my errors -- and I *do* make mistakes -- or by informing their friend, on or off-list, that he's gone off the deep end. Jojo PS, But you win Lomax. My Christmas break is almost over. Come January, you will be left on your own to continue lying about me again. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I refrained from responding about Darwinian Evolution for so long - that is; that I value this forum so much, that I do not want to involve other topics in this forum other than Cold Fusion. I wish people would not use this forum for propaganda of their beliefs and then exclude other points of view; just like what Parks, Huzienga, and others are doing wrt to Hot fusion. However, he then proceeded to challenge Jed Rothwell, who had responded civilly to Jojo. However, Jed noted that Jojo was ignorant. That kind of comment is typically taken by Jojo as an insult. Rothwell promised to let Jojo have the last word. He kept that promise for that thread. The discusion of evolution continued a little, but other readers started to complain about off-topic. A thread on a cold fusion topic had been hijacked by the insertion of a discussion of Darwinian Evolution, based not, as Jojo has often claimed, on propaganda, but a mere reference to Darwin as a man with ideas that were not popular in his time, dicta. In the process, Jojo set up a *political argument.* Read the post
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And the provocations and insults continue. Since you are clearly incapable of conprehending simple English prose. I will spell it out for you. I drank a total of about 5 bottles of beer and I drank all of it before I was 20 years old. I haven't touched alcohol since then to the present. Jeepers, I thought I was clear. No wonder, we have a lot of conflict here. People's comprehension skills are just lacking. Jojo - Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:List integrity Since I openly speculated about Mr. Jaro's habits I suspected he would respond. He did. I see that Jojo recently stated: For somebody who's worst drinking was less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first 2 decades of his life; an insinuation that I am an alcoholic is a grave insult. Please refrain from insults. Jojo, I apologize to you personally (and as such to everyone on the vortex-l list within hearing range) if my speculations that you might be an alcoholic are baseless. You seem to be implying that you aren't. You specifically stated that you have had less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first two decades of your life. First two decades of your life, you say? Are you really that young? If so, that would help explain a lot of your posting behavior. However... somehow I really don't think you're that young. Have you heard of the term: dry drunk? And then, there was something else you stated: I am NOT the problem. I am the solution to this madness. Really? That might also help explain your posting behavior... far more than baseless speculation on my part that you might be an alcoholic. Jeez! No wonder you 're so defensive and upset! Nothing seems to be going your way! I'd sure be upset too if I had gotten it into my head that I was the solution to this madness. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Herein is the fallacy of your comments. You claim that the insults are mild, and that I do not have the right to respond to mild insults. This is the lie you keep on propagating. Whether the insult in mild or grave is not for you to decide. The person that the insult is directed at is the person that has the right to decide whether the insult was mild or grave. You have no right to claim that I should not be offended because in your eyes, the insult is mild. That's bullcrap. Heck, in my eyes, calling allah a moon god and calling muhammed a sex pervert is a mild insult; yet I do not go around and lie that your response to me was improper because I only mildly insulted you. The graveness of the insult is the gravenes of how the recipient have percieved it. The recipient's perception is the only valid basis for deciding whether an insult is mild or grave. All my insults have always been a response to an insult, whether personal, as in F*** yourself or general as in the Bible is a fairy tale or The Bible is written by illiterate goat herders. Both statements are false, and insulting whether they are personal or general. For the same reason why you feel that I have insulted you by calling muhammed a sex pervert. You seem to think that my vigorous response to an insult is unwarranted because the initial insults are mild. That is not for you to decide my friend. You have no right to dictate the level of response I give out. But I can assure you, I take great pains in deciding the level of nastiness I give back. I take considerable consideration that it is always calibrated to the level of nastiness directed my way. Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:50 -0700 (resent time), Jojo sent an extensive post on Darwinian Evolution. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg66036.html Jojo might think that this post did not insult anyone. But it did. It was in response to a casual comment by James Bowery: I hate to think what would have become of Newton or Darwin had they not been among the relatively independent British middle (yeoman) class. This comment is, in no way, propaganda for Darwinian Evolution. Yes, it assumes a certain importance to Darwin, but we need to understand this: that importance is a routinely accepted fact, tantamount to a belief, among most people interested in science. Were there some necessity to attack Darwinian evolution -- difficult to understand for Vortex-l -- okay. But there was not. The subject was not Darwinian Evolution. Jojo escalated, with a rant on Darwinian Evolution that connected it with *everyone who accepts Darwinian Evolution.* Read the post! Jojo knew that he was changing the subject. He knew that it would be highly controversial. He anticipated shots. He implied that he'd not be responding. Resent Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:54 -0700, Jojo wrote this: I hesitated to post my original critique of Darwinian Evolution; and it is the reason why I
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You can not use your own speculation to support your argument. You speculate that that was true and use that to support your assertion. Faulty logic. Find me evidence that that is true. It's common for Americans to imbibe Beer and Alcohol on a daily basis, but I don't and many people don't. That is the fallacy of your argument. Jojo - Original Message - From: leaking pen To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity because that was what was common at the time! Anything different would have been commented on as unusual. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: How do you know that? Mary's Age? Jojo - Original Message - From: leaking pen To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity You know that Mary was between probably 11 to 13 when she gave birth to Jesus, right? Menses was considered adulthood, and children were considered adults when they reached puberty, and treated that way, with all the rights and responsibilities. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: Clearly, everyone can see that I started my posting on Vortex-L with clearly high hopes. Then you mentioned that I started insulting. Did you bother to mention why I started insulting. Did you mention that I started insulting people who insulted me first? If I told you to F*** yourself, is that an imagined insult? You clearly take it as an insult when I call allah a moon good, and yet feel that when people call the Bible a fairy tale, that is not an insult? Lomax, my friend, that is why I call you a LIAR. You take parts of history and pick and choose what you want to support your fallacious history. Even now, when things are starting to calm down, you and SVJ continue the cycle of insults by continuing this. That's the reason why I despise you and who you are to the core. You take fallacy and lies to the next level without any qualms about it. You spin and lie and deceive people with your expert use of long wordy essays and you find no problem with that. Of course not, why should you; that is who you are. That is what you are expected to be. That is what you are taught to be. Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. Jojo PS, But you win Lomax. My Christmas break is almost over. Come January, you will be left on your own to continue lying about me again. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I reviewed the contributions of Jojo to this forum. Jojo has repeated claimed that he doesn't start insulting, but that others insult him, and he responds with insult. He made comments early on that could indicate a certain combativeness, but that is not unusual here. In a post, resent 26 Apr 2012 20:33:31 -0700, in which he complimented Jed Rothwell, he mentioned that he disagreed on Darwinian Evolution. (By the way, source time confirms location in the Philippines, I think.) However, the post to which he was responding, apparently, did not mention Darwinian Evolution, so this must have been a reference to some other post. Another list subscriber chimed in with some support for Jojo, but nobody started debating evolution. But on Fri, 25 May 2012 14
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At 12:45 AM 12/31/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Herein is the fallacy of your comments. You claim that the insults are mild, and that I do not have the right to respond to mild insults. Beautiful. My post is quoted below. I did not claim that Jojo did not have the right to respond. I don't see that I called the insults mild. Some comments that Jojo responded to were mild, one was essentially Fuck you. This is the lie you keep on propagating. Whether the insult in mild or grave is not for you to decide. I didn't say mild. But I do have the right to my opinions. Opinions like mild or grave are not fact. The person that the insult is directed at is the person that has the right to decide whether the insult was mild or grave. You have no right to claim that I should not be offended because in your eyes, the insult is mild. That's bullcrap. I did not say that Jojo should not be offended. Heck, in my eyes, calling allah a moon god and calling muhammed a sex pervert is a mild insult; yet I do not go around and lie that your response to me was improper because I only mildly insulted you. The graveness of the insult is the gravenes of how the recipient have percieved it. The recipient's perception is the only valid basis for deciding whether an insult is mild or grave. By this standard, then, given that many *would* respond to those statements as highly offensive, and given that one list member was obviously so highly insulted by Jojo's comments that he responded with fuck you, Jojo has just condemned himself as having issued grave insults without grave provocation. Jojo's comment in that case was actually mild -- my opinion --, by comparison with others, but it had an effect that could have been predicted. All my insults have always been a response to an insult, whether personal, as in F*** yourself or general as in the Bible is a fairy tale or The Bible is written by illiterate goat herders. Both statements are false, and insulting whether they are personal or general. For the same reason why you feel that I have insulted you by calling muhammed a sex pervert. No, you did not insult me by saying that. You insulted friends of mine, and you insulted me by calling me a liar when I described what you had done *accurately,* often with links, and by dismissing the product of my sincere research as lies, without actually pointing out *one lie,* and totally disregarding evidence. You seem to think that my vigorous response to an insult is unwarranted because the initial insults are mild. Seem is the operative word here. It seems so to Jojo. I don't think Jojo's response was unwarranted, but I'll say right now that it was insane, it was excessive for Vortex, which is a *social judgment.* That is not for you to decide my friend. You have no right to dictate the level of response I give out. That's correct. Jojo decides, and Jojo is responsible for what Jojo does, and cannot shift responsibility to others because he perceives them as insulting him. But I can assure you, I take great pains in deciding the level of nastiness I give back. I take considerable consideration that it is always calibrated to the level of nastiness directed my way. Jojo From this mail, as is common here, the judgment is deranged. Insults have been perceived when there was none. Jojo fantastizes about what has been said about him. When the truth is written, he *reads contempt into it.* That reveals how he actually thinks about himself. A turd, he called himself in several posts. It's all made up. He is not a turd. Satan tells him he is, and he fights with Satan, something that Jesus advised against. He projects this war all over us. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I this post I review the early history of controversy involving Jojo Jaro on this list. Jojo began with clearly relevant postings on alternative energy research. That went on for some time, until May, 2012, when a problem appeared. Ultimately, this study leads to a clear example of what Jojo does. He imagines insult, then insults back, initiating a cycle of insult, escalating. At the same time, he holds a series of strong beliefs, apparently not suscpetible to evidence or genuine discussion, on topics that are likely to be inflammatory if brought here (and just about anywhere on the internet, except for certain odd corners), and he readily drops these into discussions. At 04:46 AM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, I stand corrected. If calling for the open, transparent and proper accountability of his qualifications is an insult, then yes, I've insulted Obama. I will separately address this in another post. I decided to look back and see if I could find the origin of Jojo's sense of Vortex and the Vortex community, so I
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:37 PM 12/30/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: Hence, in you, the corruption of islam is seen by everyone. The same corruption that justifies to the world that it is OK to fondle a 9 year old little girl BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS, just because other people are doing it. No matter how you justify it, that's CREEPY. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS. What is obviously false does not become more true by being repeated over and over. Jojo actually acknowledged that this one was false, but has continued to emphasize it. Jojo is using hyperbole so calling it false is an ineffective repsonse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Harry
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On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former. My two cents worth: The integrity required is the self control to not respond to trolls. I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? It is clearly an option to automatically trash emails from pesky people, or, if you are afraid you'll miss something to simply read you want, but - to respond to a troll shows an obvious lack of integrity, a lack of an appropriate level concern for what you are doing to other members of the list. One of the greatest things about this list, and the internet in general, is the freedom of speech. List moderation should only be used in extreme circumstances. A little self control by list members is often enough to discourage trolls. I think Bill Beaty's laissez faire attitude with regard to moderation is a good and even necessary approach for this list, which encourages free discussion of science anomalies. If a roll tries to bully, control what you post, the best response is to simply go ahead and post what you want, and ignore any responses from the troll or bully. If numerous members of the list object, then that is another matter. If you feel action is warranted by an ISP, such as Microsoft, Google, etc. then a few simple googles will show you sites to directly report abuse to ISPs. Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To visit this topic, use this URL: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000124 Posted by Joseph Hao (Member # 3289) on June 14, 2004, 02:42 PM: Any folks out there studying for CCIE Voice Lab in Atlanta? [snip] Joseph CCIE #9273 jth...@hotmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) That's my 2 cents worth, from a member of the list for over 15 years. Resuming lurk mode. Best Regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
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I couldn't agree more. I even tried to call myself a turd to try to bring home the point that it is not worth the effort to insult me. But still, Lomax and others see it fit to play with the turd. LOL Heck, I want nothing more than for people to ignore me if they disagree, but I have as much right to express an opinion without insults. And as a matter of fact, I was discussing calmly with civility before Lomax started insulting again. That is a fact that you can verify. As for Joseph Hao, he is a good friend. We used to work together on some free energy projects most notably on some HHO and Veg Oil/ Biodiesel projects and we were co-workers for a while. We went to graduate school together in San Diego State (MS Computer Science) a long time ago. This was a common email we used on all our free energy projects correspondence. He was the one who first subscribed this account to Vortex-LI have been exclusively using this email since I left the country. Yes, he is in Atlanta and he is in fact a CCIE RS and is studying for his CCIE Voice. Jojo . - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To visit this topic, use this URL: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000124 Posted by Joseph Hao (Member # 3289) on June 14, 2004, 02:42 PM: Any folks out there studying for CCIE Voice Lab in Atlanta? [snip] Joseph CCIE #9273 jth...@hotmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) That's my 2 cents worth, from a member of the list for over 15 years. Resuming lurk mode. Best Regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
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Good to see you're on-line, Horace... even if 'cloaked'. Just wanted to support your wise words about why the recent exchange got out of control... some people just can't keep their fingers off the keyboard. To all Vorts, Personal attacks are specifically forbidden on this forum, and I would hope that one has the conscious self-awareness and restraint to reread your posting before hitting 'Send', and *PURGE* it of all forms of name-calling and veiled derogatory implications... especially when it comes to belief systems. That's not too much to ask of rational human beings, is it? -Mark Iverson -Original Message- From: Horace Heffner [mailto:hheff...@mtaonline.net] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 2:06 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former. My two cents worth: The integrity required is the self control to not respond to trolls. I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? It is clearly an option to automatically trash emails from pesky people, or, if you are afraid you'll miss something to simply read you want, but - to respond to a troll shows an obvious lack of integrity, a lack of an appropriate level concern for what you are doing to other members of the list. One of the greatest things about this list, and the internet in general, is the freedom of speech. List moderation should only be used in extreme circumstances. A little self control by list members is often enough to discourage trolls. I think Bill Beaty's laissez faire attitude with regard to moderation is a good and even necessary approach for this list, which encourages free discussion of science anomalies. If a roll tries to bully, control what you post, the best response is to simply go ahead and post what you want, and ignore any responses from the troll or bully. If numerous members of the list object, then that is another matter. If you feel action is warranted by an ISP, such as Microsoft, Google, etc. then a few simple googles will show you sites to directly report abuse to ISPs. Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To visit this topic, use this URL: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000124 Posted by Joseph Hao (Member # 3289) on June 14, 2004, 02:42 PM: Any folks out there studying for CCIE Voice Lab in Atlanta? [snip] Joseph CCIE #9273 jth...@hotmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) That's my 2 cents worth, from a member of the list for over 15 years. Resuming lurk mode. Best Regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
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At 05:06 AM 12/29/2012, Horace Heffner wrote: On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former. My two cents worth: The integrity required is the self control to not respond to trolls. The positions are that of moderator and owner. Moderators and owners have different reponsibilities from list members, and one of the duties of a moderator is to *act* with respect to trolls. For a moderator to engage a troll in debate is a Bad Idea. Rather, a moderator will do one of several things: warn the troll, on or off-list, put the troll on moderation, or ban the troll. If others complain about an alleged troll, a responsible moderator will accept or reject the complaints, not just ignore them. This list apparently has an owner/moderator whe is absent for extended periods, and who has then, seeing a problem, acted without warning. I don't think that is best practice, but *it's his list.* I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. This is a common opinion among kibbitzers. Just ignore it. I remember such opinions about spam. What's the harm, just delete it! It's naive. There is harm from trolling. Trolls become expert at angering and enraging. People who do not care to engage with trolls may well use killfiles, or just ignore messages. But that does nothing to stop the trolling, and sometimes a troll will continue even if nobody responds, and, sooner or later, someone bites. Someone new thinks there is a real question or issue to be addressed. The list archive is public and googleable. A user may have no intention and not care what people on the list think, and may be playing to Google. Lists *do* lose members because of trolls. Blaming those who respond is short-sighted. It really is up to the list moderator, and, supposedly, this is a moderated list. If responding to a troll is considered the problem, the moderator can warn. Though it would be a bit weird. Trollface can post, but you may not respond. Think it through, Horace. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? Neither one is necessarily a fool. Horace, your thinking *sucks.* Trolls have a purpose (or it wouldn't be trolling). If the troll gets people upset, whether they are upset directly or from others responding, *that's the purpose.* [...] Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. [...] In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. Wait! Is Jojo a troll or a fraud? If he's a troll, you just violated your own should. If he's a fraud -- and he does promote fraudulent memes -- your suggestion does require response. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) Is it a fake identity? Jojo responded to this mail. As for Joseph Hao, he is a good friend. We used to work together on some free energy projects most notably on some HHO and Veg Oil/ Biodiesel projects and we were co-workers for a while. We went to graduate school together in San Diego State (MS Computer Science) a long time ago. This was a common email we used on all our free energy projects correspondence. He was the one who first subscribed this account to Vortex-LI have been exclusively using this email since I left the country. Yes, he is in Atlanta and he is in fact a CCIE RS and is studying for his CCIE Voice. The story is not fully consistent with the record. Look at it on the face: jthao is Joseph Hao, yes. Jthao would be internet-sophisticated, as would Jojo. So they would share a hotmail account? Why? Surely they would realize the risks! Now, given that they are sharing, they are *really good friends*, Jojo has decided to tell the truth
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From Mr. Lomax: ... But Jojo's writings here also vary in quality. Sometimes his spelling is atrocious, sometimes accurate. I have been wondering if Mr. Jaro drinks. In fact, for some time now I have wondered if Mr. Jaro drinks a lot. It might help explain some of his occasionally caustic posting behaviors. Alcoholism, among other issues. It's possible that if one were to sift through the history of Mr. Jaro's postings one might begin to discern a distinct 24 hour pattern as to when his spelling tends to be accurate and when it becomes less so. Quite frankly, it's beyond my desire to care to find out. However there might be others on this list that might consider it an interesting challenge. I'm wondering if Jojo needs an intervention. (Not my department.) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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I haven't insulted anyone for over 24 hours now and I thought that things would start to simmer down as people stopped insulting me; and yet out of the blue, a fresh insult pops up to stoke new heat on the dying embers of the conflict. SVJ has admitted openly that he does this intentionally to provoke a strong reaction from me. This is the pattern of behavior that is the problem here in Vortex-L. Not me. For somebody who's worst drinking was less than 5 bottles of beer spread over the first 2 decades of his life; an insinuation that I am an alcoholic is a grave insult. Please refrain from insults. Instead of acknowledging that my caustic postings are exclusively directed at people who insult me; SVJ comes up with an insult veiled as a crackpot theory of my alcoholism. This is the integrity of this list that has gone downhill. And contrary to some people's assertion, I am NOT the problem. I am the solution to this madness. I challenged anyone to sieve thru the archives to see if I have insulted people who have not insulted me. A few folks immediately come to mind. Have I insulted Axil, David Roberson, Fran Roarty, Jones Beene, Terry Blanton, Nigel Dyer, Mark Iverson, etc. These are some of the most intelligent scientific minds in this forum and they know how to behave like adults, unlike some self appointed experts and off-topic trolls here. So Lomax, SVJ, Rocha, Peter Gluck, Jouni and some thers don't like my opinions; as I don't like theirs. But I never start insulting them. They always start it. If I have a problem with them, I always direct it to personal email as I have done with Peter. That is the proper way for civilized individuals to act. Qutie obviously, Bill has examined the situation in Vortex-L and has seen that what I am doing here does not deserve banning like many of these trolls would like to advocate. But if he does ban me due to mob pressure, I will still not change my response to obvious bullies. Jojo - Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:13 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:List integrity From Mr. Lomax: ... But Jojo's writings here also vary in quality. Sometimes his spelling is atrocious, sometimes accurate. I have been wondering if Mr. Jaro drinks. In fact, for some time now I have wondered if Mr. Jaro drinks a lot. It might help explain some of his occasionally caustic posting behaviors. Alcoholism, among other issues. It's possible that if one were to sift through the history of Mr. Jaro's postings one might begin to discern a distinct 24 hour pattern as to when his spelling tends to be accurate and when it becomes less so. Quite frankly, it's beyond my desire to care to find out. However there might be others on this list that might consider it an interesting challenge. I'm wondering if Jojo needs an intervention. (Not my department.) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Excellent analysis Lomax. You sure pinned it down. Just like the excellent Jojo is an Alcoholic bullcrap and the Jojo has had a rough childhood fairy tale. LOL Keep up the good work guys. Bullies will always be bullies. Jojo - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:24 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity At 05:06 AM 12/29/2012, Horace Heffner wrote: On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former. My two cents worth: The integrity required is the self control to not respond to trolls. The positions are that of moderator and owner. Moderators and owners have different reponsibilities from list members, and one of the duties of a moderator is to *act* with respect to trolls. For a moderator to engage a troll in debate is a Bad Idea. Rather, a moderator will do one of several things: warn the troll, on or off-list, put the troll on moderation, or ban the troll. If others complain about an alleged troll, a responsible moderator will accept or reject the complaints, not just ignore them. This list apparently has an owner/moderator whe is absent for extended periods, and who has then, seeing a problem, acted without warning. I don't think that is best practice, but *it's his list.* I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. This is a common opinion among kibbitzers. Just ignore it. I remember such opinions about spam. What's the harm, just delete it! It's naive. There is harm from trolling. Trolls become expert at angering and enraging. People who do not care to engage with trolls may well use killfiles, or just ignore messages. But that does nothing to stop the trolling, and sometimes a troll will continue even if nobody responds, and, sooner or later, someone bites. Someone new thinks there is a real question or issue to be addressed. The list archive is public and googleable. A user may have no intention and not care what people on the list think, and may be playing to Google. Lists *do* lose members because of trolls. Blaming those who respond is short-sighted. It really is up to the list moderator, and, supposedly, this is a moderated list. If responding to a troll is considered the problem, the moderator can warn. Though it would be a bit weird. Trollface can post, but you may not respond. Think it through, Horace. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? Neither one is necessarily a fool. Horace, your thinking *sucks.* Trolls have a purpose (or it wouldn't be trolling). If the troll gets people upset, whether they are upset directly or from others responding, *that's the purpose.* [...] Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. [...] In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. Wait! Is Jojo a troll or a fraud? If he's a troll, you just violated your own should. If he's a fraud -- and he does promote fraudulent memes -- your suggestion does require response. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) Is it a fake identity? Jojo responded to this mail. As for Joseph Hao, he is a good friend. We used to work together on some free energy projects most notably on some HHO and Veg Oil/ Biodiesel projects and we were co-workers for a while. We went to graduate school together in San Diego State (MS Computer Science) a long time ago. This was a common email we used on all our free energy projects correspondence. He was the one who first subscribed this account to Vortex-LI have been exclusively using this email since I left
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Mark, insults from me will stop the moment insults to me stops. It's that simple. And it's not about turning the other cheek and forgive, cause I have done that. This is now way beyond forgiveness of an occasional insult. This is now about fighting back against systemic and organized attacks from a gang of mob bullies. Jojo - Original Message - From: MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:25 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:List integrity Good to see you're on-line, Horace... even if 'cloaked'. Just wanted to support your wise words about why the recent exchange got out of control... some people just can't keep their fingers off the keyboard. To all Vorts, Personal attacks are specifically forbidden on this forum, and I would hope that one has the conscious self-awareness and restraint to reread your posting before hitting 'Send', and *PURGE* it of all forms of name-calling and veiled derogatory implications... especially when it comes to belief systems. That's not too much to ask of rational human beings, is it? -Mark Iverson -Original Message- From: Horace Heffner [mailto:hheff...@mtaonline.net] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 2:06 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:List integrity On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former. My two cents worth: The integrity required is the self control to not respond to trolls. I suggest that the blame for ridiculously long OT troll induced threads lies not as much with the initiator as with those who respond to the troll. If there is banning to be done the respondents should be banned also. Who is the bigger fool, a troll, or someone who argues with the troll? It is clearly an option to automatically trash emails from pesky people, or, if you are afraid you'll miss something to simply read you want, but - to respond to a troll shows an obvious lack of integrity, a lack of an appropriate level concern for what you are doing to other members of the list. One of the greatest things about this list, and the internet in general, is the freedom of speech. List moderation should only be used in extreme circumstances. A little self control by list members is often enough to discourage trolls. I think Bill Beaty's laissez faire attitude with regard to moderation is a good and even necessary approach for this list, which encourages free discussion of science anomalies. If a roll tries to bully, control what you post, the best response is to simply go ahead and post what you want, and ignore any responses from the troll or bully. If numerous members of the list object, then that is another matter. If you feel action is warranted by an ISP, such as Microsoft, Google, etc. then a few simple googles will show you sites to directly report abuse to ISPs. Also, I feel compelled to note the content of vortex has gone down hill since a bunch of fake email names have showed up. This is a weak shield for a coward to hide behind, but still it encourages behavior unbecoming a scientific list. There are many services that will provide reverse lookup information for email addresses, so it is ultimately an ineffective ruse. Sometimes merely googleing an email address will yield the identity. For example, google (jth...@hotmail.com) quickly yields: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000124 http://tinyurl.com/cre6cfd which may or may not correctly identify Jojo Jaro as Joseph Hao in Atlanta. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To visit this topic, use this URL: http://www.voiceie.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000124 Posted by Joseph Hao (Member # 3289) on June 14, 2004, 02:42 PM: Any folks out there studying for CCIE Voice Lab in Atlanta? [snip] Joseph CCIE #9273 jth...@hotmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In any case it seems to me the response to a troll should be to not respond, the response to frauds the opposite, to expose every flaw, and warn off victims. To bullies the response should be to do what you want and ignore the bully. The response to truly disruptive and egregious or unlawful behavior should be to use the tools provided by ISPs. The response to bad behavior under fake identities is perhaps to expose the identity - which has worked well here in the past to eliminate nonsense from a guy from down under if I recall. 8^) That's my 2 cents worth, from a member of the list for over 15 years. Resuming lurk mode. Best Regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
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At 09:29 PM 12/29/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: ... my caustic postings are exclusively directed at people who insult me; I challenged anyone to sieve thru the archives to see if I have insulted people who have not insulted me. Barack Obama. Evolutionary biologists. Muhammad. His wife, Ayesha. Abraham and his wife Sarah. Every Muslim on the planet. (That's, what, one out of four people?) I could add, for example, the Hawaiian State Registrar, who apparently does not exist in Jojo's eyes, or is lying. Qutie obviously, Bill has examined the situation in Vortex-L and has seen that what I am doing here does not deserve banning like many of these trolls would like to advocate. But if he does ban me due to mob pressure, I will still not change my response to obvious bullies. I doubt very much that Bill has looked at the situation. Bill will not respond to mob pressure, I'm sure. I have not advocated banning Jojo. I've advocated warning him.
[Vo]:List integrity
Original subject: Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age The original subject was off-topic. List management is not, so I've created a new header, please keep discussion here on the subject of the header. At 02:31 PM 12/28/2012, Mark Gibbs wrote: If Beaty isn't willing to moderate and push the OT stuff over to Vortex B then someone (Jed?) should seriously consider starting an alternative list. I'm worried about Bill. There is an alternate list that has been used for backup when vortex-l is down (because the service provider, eskimo.com, has often had problems) It's http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vortex-l-backup If we do set up or use an alternate list, I have some suggestions for governance. It's kind of a special interest of mine, and I see a list owner as a kind of trustee for the community, and there should be more than one owner, for security. Owners do not have to be active, but they should be available when needed. Active moderation would be done by moderators who generally do not have the priviliege to name or remove moderators, nor to delete the group. Moderators *may* or *may not* have the ability to delete posts from the archive, but would routinely have the ability to put members on moderation or to ban them, subject to appeal. So moderators can warn, and can back up a warning with action, if needed. These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill, but mostly the former.