It's a challenge, an opportunity to sharpen my debating skills in a distinctly hostile environment. More importantly my patience is tried by fire and I've had to dump many of my posts from Preview - there have been some nights without a single published comment, even though my fingers were flying and the keyboard was smokin'. *sigh* I've probably deleted more than the 2,000 plus I've posted.
I've forced myself to abandon any hint of anger and edit myself rigorously, cleaving to rational argument and logic, ignoring insults and abuse. "I'm sorry to have to point this out" or "mind you, this is merely an opinion" - are phrases I hate but which have their purpose when communicating in cyberspace.
Oh, how I wish I had kept the posts that were never posted...
The muslims there absolutely hate my guts openly, a sentiment now shared by most of the mormons. Before the forum changed ownership, the moderation was so heavily anti Christian as to be laughable. And now I wish I had kept some of their stupid pm's - the bias was so transparent no one would believe it.
I'll be loading some of the better conversations soon.
Oh, here's a cute PM from a frustrated Mormon poster who, unable to respond rationally to the evidence that Joseph Smith was a fraud and a charlatan, decided to send me a private message rather than getting kicked off the board for repeatedly attacking me publicly:
"Ma'am, since you've joined RF, the only thing you seem to do is tell us how wrong we are. Which is pathetic. Do you really intend on making that your life goal? Telling others how wrong they are? Just as we have 'no proof' for our own beliefs, neither do you. What is this to you? A game?"
(Apppropriately entitled "Sad").
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