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Auriferous Auditory Autocrat

In Reply to: 'Debate King MIA in 6 Separate Skirmishes' posted by Kevin Dempsey on August 10, 1999 at 10:33:59:

:: Stuart, Below are the last 6 threads you and I had. All were abandoned by you, except for the last one in the list. In that one, someone else replied to you before I did, and so I left it between you two ("sammy" it was.) In the end, you left his questions unanswered just as you had mine. Now, I'll concede perhaps you are busier than I at times, and that you are unable to respond to all the threads you participate in. But it is odd how you drop the debate like a hot potato, and never get around to retrieving it. You always pick a new fight instead. The easy response is to say the old fights bore you. The thing is though, you and I always end up arguing about the same few things. Our assertions and points are usually the same from debate to debate, if worded a little differently. So if it's boredom, why even bother jumping in in the first place? You know it only leads to boredom. I think the reasons are other than that. I won't say that I "beat you" in these arguments, but I DO wonder why you always drop them as the questions get a little more difficult to answer. Oh well, maybe you're just like a cat, who toys with me occasionally, keeping me alive for entertainment's sake, never delivering that fatal blow to crush my intellect. Thank you for sparing me and your other would be vanquishers. You humble yourself by letting us squeak out of your clutches and have the last word. ;-)

That's exactly what I did on three of them, anyway. Say, you can accuse me of cowardice any time you choose. All you have to do is keep answering a thread after I've died of boredom.

Seriously, in three of those threads you finished with a cival, rational (re)statement of your position. I don't feel compelled have the last word after that - especially when it is quite clear that our positions are both intractable.

With regards to the statement that must have pushed your button the most, "homosexuals don't even respect their own bodies", you either accept or reject it. If I have a belief that God has created our bodies with specific functions, it follows that misusing that body with regards to those functions is disrespect for that creation and for that Creator. If you do not hold that same belief I can understand your resentment of the statement. I respect your right to disbelieve the biblical God but I make such statements in sincerety hoping that you may seriously evaluate the basis of your own beliefs.

They say you can catch a bear with honey, but a catfish likes moldy cheese.

Stuart Gort

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