You aren't interested in what I think. I've given my honest opinion here many times and all it gets is twisted beyond recognition.
A subject comes up in a thread, you have an opinion and relay it. As with most opinions, from everyone not just you, there is disagreement, misunderstanding or confusion so the question/answer sessions begin.
Faith, please take this as constructive. These are my observations.
You seem to think that a lot of your opinions do not require support since the issue is self-evident to you. It is not so self-evident to others so the questions keep coming. When push-back comes saying the answers are insufficient you feel personally insulted. You, again, feel that what evidence or proof or answers you give should be sufficient.
Here is what I see as the crux. In a lot of cases here you have not thought through your positions sufficiently so you have no further answers and rely back on the self-evident answers already given and, yet, the push-back keeps coming.
Rather pointedly if I may, and this is just my opinion, you are getting a lot of questions, counter-arguments and push-backs because your positions
are in the minority here and, again in my opinion, indefensible.
Everyone is here (yes, even you) because we find these types of discussions, disagreements and all, to be, not just stimulating, but down right fun. A big part of the fun is developing and evolving arguments and counter-arguments over the course of the thread.
You seem to have a problem developing and evolving your positions and arguments. You have given your position and argument (which you see as self-evident) giving answers to the push-backs without thought or refinement which just deepens the problems, leads to more uncomfortable questions which you cannot adequately answer. The frustrations of the perceived personal insults take over and you melt down into verbal abuse.
You are a fun person to have here. Your opinions are minority and it is fun to explore the options and rip your arguments to shreds. Everyone pulls on everyone's tail in these disagreements and frankly, Faith, it is loads of fun to pull on
your tail. We do not want to lose you.
My suggestion is this. Do not be so sensitive and take these tail twists as personal insults. It takes a lot of different personalities to make a community so interesting. Given your personality you will reach the point where you want to throw sand in someone's face and punch them in the nose. Don't feel you are alone in that, by the way.
When you reach that point .. quit. Take a break before you explode. Go have a cup of tea, take a bubble bath, kick the dog, whatever helps to ease the stress. When you are done mentally strangling the shit out of your detractor, think through the issue at hand as dispassionately as you can and try to devise a different approach or slant to the argument.
Come back to us armed and ready to have more fun in the fight.
For what it's worth.
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