given the overwhelmingly coherent content your recent spree of posts, mark, it seems that you are perhaps the only one here who truly "gets it."
are you currently accepting students?
All humor aside, 2minkey that's exactly correct, but not in any way you are perceiving it. If I come off pompous, condescending and egotistical in the Real World forum, then so be it, but it just ain't my problem, it's
yours, and frankly I don't give a crap anyway. The fact is, that that just isn't who I am, and if any of you knew me away from here you'd "get it" in the way that it truly is. If you took the time to try and understand the meaning behind the posts, you might also "get it".
What you all don't "get" is my writing style and my vain attempts at trying to get you guys to "get it" and the "get it" I refer to is, just get "me".
You see in the RW forum. I have a lot of passionately held opinions and feelings and beliefs. I have a wealth of information that supports those beliefs. I also am a mere human being with the common failing that I desperately want to be "right" about it all. But you see, the truth it that I have a far from complete set of facts to draw conclusions from, and I am so small and insignificant in a "global politics" kind of way that I probably will never know anything someone else didn't tell me.
Well I am a realist, and a skeptic if I am anything. I know what I know, believe what I believe, and want to be right. I live life and do my best. But I am intelligent enough to know that some things "feel true" and I trust that too, but I also know that if it can't be proved to me personally by direct involvement, I may believe, but as for "knowing" I don't and neither does anyone else here.
So what you see of me in the RW, is a lot of PASSIONATELY held beliefs, and a writing style, and what you perceive based on that is what you truly don't get, and I keep wondering why you try. It's just Cerise that I finally asked the question. Inversely, why to I have such a perverse need to share my opinions and ideas here and try to convince you I am right? I really don't know, other than it amuses, and I can practice my writing style and exercise my mind so it stays sharp since I am not in school where I should be.
In a more direct way what I asked Cerise was, if she is so sure I am wrong about my political beliefs then why should she ask about them? Everyone knows what Bush is accused of, everyone knows my opinion on the matter, so why try to understand what you already know? She is just trying to bait me into some meaningless debate so I get bent out of shape over it (or so I appear to anyway), and we can all have fun with that, isn't that the whole point of this forum? This time I just didn't bite is all. I have already told her I will not debate her so I just asked why pursue the argument she seems to want, when I have already said I won't give it to her?
The reason I wouldn't give it to her in all honesty is it would for sure get so ugly one or both of us would likely end up banned and I don't want that. My "reality" and political beliefs vs. hers is as epic as good vs. evil and I KNOW which side I am on and which is which, but I won't entertain a war like that.
Is it any clearer now?
I am about to drop a BOMB in this place and I promise you it will never be the same again. Stay tuned.