Originally Posted by
GoPats
Oh for cryin' out loud. Give it a rest man. Have mercy with this faux outrage over discussions on an internet forum.
No, USMC, I was not "converted". My feelings on an aviation career have been set long before I ever set eyes on this site and they certainly wouldn't have been influenced by "spanky.com" or any other internet alias on this or any other matter.
Please don't condemn others on this forum about "name calling" and then going ahead and basically doing the same thing yourself with your own demeaning characterizations ("his converts").
I find these discussions from both ends of the spectrum interesting and sometimes entertaining. Can we just stick to the subject matter?
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm off.
And there it is. The anger at me when someone else is the one calling you converts and sociopaths.
If you weren't converted, then you might want to tell Sky that so that he will quit saying that many of his converts agree with him. Maybe you got lumped in with his generalizations (you wouldn't be the first).
GoPats - it is HIS word - not mine. You will not find a single post of mine where someone agreeing with my stance against Sky's name calling posts and then I come on touting that my "converts" have be heard!
YES! We can stick to the subject matter. Would you ask you "friend" SkyHigh to do the same and to limit his discussions to the airline/aviation industry without throwing out insult grenades and likening pilots to a mental disorder?
I ENCOURAGE you to both promote the idea that you are not CONVERTS or SOCIOPATHS.
You should tell that to the person calling you such.
This was your quote (post #71), after tomgoodman told you that SkyHigh had used such insults in the past and wondered why such things were necessary when trying to have the type of discussions that you say you want to get back too :
Well, if he did say those words and in the context you're suggesting, then shame on him.
But you have not taken the many opportunities to do so. You have just let it hover in the thread like you didn't really mean it and even continue to encourage this behavior by defending him further. Not even a simple "Man Sky, that is out of bounds. You should be calling people sociopaths" Nope - - - - silence.
Why? It will not believe because you truly view yourself as such.
You are angry at the name, but not at the person who tagged you with it.
I doubt you will doing anything so your point is mute. You like it when it suits your purposes, but you like to make a stink about it when you are confronted with the same.
Typical.
USMCFLYR