To: Poet who wrote (41223 ) 12/18/2001 9:02:04 PM From: The Philosopher Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486 Poet, if you want me to leave you alone, why don't you leave ME alone? Making that sort of post you made to E, after asking me to leave you alone (twice), only invites response. You're bright enough to know that. If you want me to leave you alone, then you leave me alone. And are you now charging that you never thought I was a decent human being? Do you want me to quote from your emails to me to show quite the opposite? I can do that, if you really want me to prove to people that there was a time you recognized that I am really a very decent person, and more. I won't invade your privacy unless you insist, but if you keep this nonsense up, you can't complain when I defend myself with your own past words. As to psychiatric decompensation, I think that's a place you really don't want to go, do you? Poet, I have no interest in fighting with you, or even sparring with you. I was involved in a discussion that had nothing to do with you. You came bursting in, threw mud around, then when I responded to it, you told me to leave you alone. Then you come BACK with more garbage, calling me a liar when that's the lie, and then this post you made to E after you asked me to leave you alone. And I was doing just that. But no, I'm not going to let you trash me publicly and not respond. If that's what you mean by leaving you alone, you're not going to get it. You leave me alone, I leave you alone. If that's what you really want. I'm beginning to wonder. If you don't respond to this post, either to me OR to anybody else, on this thread or any other thread, I won't bother you. If you respond to it, either explicitly or implicitly, you will have said clearly and publicly that you want to continue a dialogue with me. Your choice. Break if off, or don't. You choose. But don't think you can keep trashing me and telling me I shouldn't respond. Ain't gonna happen that way.