tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16441085.post-1155165146326857932006-08-09T18:12:00.000-05:002006-08-09T18:12:00.000-05:00If you were as open-minded as you wish your readers to think you are, Ron, your replies to me would not be filled with ad hominem attacks and self-serving distortions and gross misrepresentations of my positions, which I take pains to express as clearly as possible. You would, instead, address the specific arguments I offer and rebut them if you can or at least challenge them by logically by attempting to refute elements of them that you find questionable or irrelevant. But you don't do that. Instead you simply distort my arguments and resort to ad hominem attacks, name-calling, innuendo, and character assassination. <BR/><BR/>You ask that I suggest a book you should read, but why would I expect that you would actually read anything I might suggest? After all, I have provided numerous references to support my arguments and links to respected authorities whose views are published on-line, but you have yet to give any indication that you have read any--any--of the supporting documentation I typically provide. You may have read some of it, but your readers here would never know it by your responses; it never plays any kind of role in your replies. You never bother to comment in any way on the references I provide, nor do you provide alternate references that support your own perspective.<BR/><BR/>If you were certain of the basis for your so determinedly held and often angrily-stated opinions, I would think you would be delighted to provide references to authorities in the field whose analyses support and bolster your opinions, instead of resorting to name-calling and character assassination, which neither informs or impresses anyone who is worth trying to inform or impress.<BR/><BR/>I don't think you understand how to discuss the subjects in question in a way that is likely to enlighten anyone, you or your readers. <BR/><BR/>Who is MG/RB? Are you confusing me with the guy who bailed out awhile back, after you and your thuggish friends insulted and harassed him, as you have me? I'm not Mitch Gillespie, Ron. My name is R.B. Scott.<BR/><BR/>If you ever decide to discuss these matters in a rational way, without the ad hominem attacks, name-calling, and character assassination, you'll not only make more progress in understanding some of the most important political and religious issues of our time, you'll also find that the discussion here may attract rather than repel intelligent observers and knowledgeable readers.R. B. Scottnoreply@blogger.com