An Open Amends...
I just wanted to take a quick moment of the membership's time, to apologize explicitly to those of my fellow participants here at Swords Crossed of whom I may have antagonized in the past, or otherwise been guilty of some out of order behavior.
In looking back, I can read where, (and certainly this is in part due to, and in consideration of the absence of the benefit of verbal tone and inflection), I have crossed lines I would liked to have not, and I am here to abjure myself of those remarks, if not the underlying substance, certainly the more ghastly instances of transgression.
I am appreciative of the membership here, in it's entirety, and though I may not be amongst our most tolerant members, I hope to be similarly not amongst our most intolerant. I can make no promises in this regard, only that I have the betterment of SC in mind, and the good fortune of right intention.
So in that spirit I offer an amends...
...even if... despite those right intentions, it turns out to be an amends...in advance. LOL! ;-)
Have a great inaugural day everybody!
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That's very nice of you
I know you've got as good as you gave in some of the exchanges, and hopefully we can all take to heart the desire you express so well to avoid incivility -- even while passionately disagreeing.
Agree about the online thing sort of altering the nature of interactions.
Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world -- Tennyson
Well, I figure if you can't get along with SL...
...you must need an overhaul.
So I am really trying to separate the ideas from the desire to "win the day" kind of behavior, which was what I was raised on in the blogosphere.
And I don't want to be viewed as someone who's ideas are based from such a hyper partisan position that it literally becomes the person I may be debating's, defense! LOL!
I meant what I posted sincerely, so thanks.
Underlying all arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ~M. Friedman
Beowulf never apologized to Grendel
One cannot fully appreciate civil discourse, unless one has had plenty of uncivil discourse.
In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,
:-) Thx Bro...
...I've had my share... ;-)
Underlying all arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ~M. Friedman