(June 26, 2012 at 10:59 pm)whateverist Wrote: So sorry I missed this last entry. When I said you were a dick I was mostly being playful since you seemed to be encouraging us all to worry less about insulting people. But, in the sense that someone who gets in a lot of people's face is said to be a "dick" , I guess I also thought it was accurate. I really half expected you to take this as a compliment or at least see the irony.
I apologize if I hurt your feelings, Brian. There is no denying what I said was blatantly personal in that it was directed squarely at you. How can I know if you truly are a dick anyway? All I should have said is that I experience you as acting in a dickish manner. You may be the world's sweetest person underneath it all. Clearly words can hurt and I should choose mine more carefully.
Text is always harder to read inflection than face to face. And yes I am fully aware that people wont like everything I say. And yes, even I can take something the wrong way. But one thing people should know if they don't know about me, I don't hold grudges. It takes a lot for me not to want to interact with someone.
There is only one current person on the net I absolutely do hate and have a grudge with, but that is almost impossible for me. Even with that guy I simply let him hang himself and ridicule him.
I do have an atheist libertarian who drives me nuts with his economic claims, and we do go at it tooth and nail, but he could tell you that he doesn't hate me and I don't hate him.
I don't remember anything you said that hurt my feelings, in any case that was yesterday this is today.
Irony, maybe that did go over my head but, that makes me human, not perfect. Like I said, text is harder to interpret inflection.
