Mario Goveia wrote: In response to your comments shown below, it is amazing to me that you seem bent on continuing this line of personal invective, in a discussion in which you added nothing, and after the main protagonists have stopped.
Cecil:
If the 'main protagonists' decide to call it off does that mean the rest of us are supposed to lie down and die? You have irritated all of us here and continue to do so with your lame defense of this whole dragged on debate.
As far as adding nothing to the debate please go through the archives and see my posting on the 'gullibility virus'. That should have given you an indication as to what my viewpoint was.
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Mario: You should at least let readers know that I have challenged you, on Goanet and privately, to send me some specific examples of where I have STARTED a line of personal abuse, as opposed to retaliating to the abuse of others, or where I have defended or perpetuated a hoax.
Cecil:
Know ye all that Mario has attacked my viewpoint and demanded explanations privately, semi-privately and in public. I chose not to reply because I did not want to be the target of his abusive pen. But now I have no other recourse and if he chooses to turn his guns on me I will try and make the effort to reply. On the other hand... I don't want to bore you folks and so will just ignore his pricks.
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Mario: Not only have you done none of the above, you are continuing the calumny and insinuation that I alone have been personally abusive.
Cecil:
Agreed that others involved in the debate might have sometimes crossed the line of civilised debate. I am inclined to overlook their minor aberrations when I see the larger picture of what they represent. They have the community's best interests at heart, which has been proven over continual interaction over the years. Maybe you do too. But ever since you started posting you have brutally attacked anyone who refutes your views and seem to take great pleasure in being insulting. Perhaps if you took a less aggressive approach and worked hand in hand with all of us you might change this impression you have created. I am sure there is a lot we can gain from your interaction but not if it comes with a loaded pointed gun at the side.
I hope that this is the last word I have to say on this issue. I do not want to be remembered here as a bore who dragged a debate on-and-on-and-on.
Have a good weekend, Mario. I definitely will.
Cheers!
Cecil
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