(February 22, 2015 at 10:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: That's right. I don't think it's wrong to HAVE emotion. I just think it's wrong not to self-edit posts full of cursing and melodrama before you press the "Post" button.
I've often enough sworn to myself at some answer or point that I consider stupid or dishonest. I might even say in a reply that I consider the post stupid or dishonest. But THAT is a LOT (!!!) Different than FUCKING filling a POST with annoying meta-fucking-comment-fucking-tary!!! R_I_G_H_T!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?
This seems to be a little bit of backtracking from your original post.
Again, we aren't speaking a binary language here. You seem not to be able to differentiate between using colorful language and expletives in order to accentuate a point and posts consisting solely of cursing and vitriol.
I don't think you'll find anyone that disagrees with the idea that if a post consists entirely of anger and hate, it contributes nothing to the conversation and is useless and unnecessary.
On the other side of things, posts that consist entirely of bullet points and data will be ignored just as often as they are read.
Sometimes---especially when discussing religion---rudeness and invective is useful and maybe even necessary. Sometimes ideas need to be confronted with reactions that open people's minds up to just how offensive the thing they are saying is. Sometimes, people say some shit that is beneath even engaging, and the best thing for it is a sassy meme or dismissive emoji.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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