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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (63467)	10/23/2002 6:56:09 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You can't do it, can you? Good night.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (63467)	10/23/2002 7:14:12 PM
From: E	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

There is such a simple thing you don't get. All of your and X's denials that you did what you did are nothing. They're jokes that make the two of you look ludicrous. And because of some oddity in X, having to do, I can only believe, with some effect your personality construct has on hers, she will defend you to the end, even at the cost of disgracing herself intellectually and in other ways. And it's all unnecessary. My guess is that this would be a true statement, if you posted it; and if you had had the moral courage to do that, it would have made it all go away for you, and have made an honest woman out of X: "I behaved very badly. I don't know why, except that it had something to do with strain in my life. I had a lot of anger against women [or a woman], and was experiencing frustration and some bitterness. My 3D life didn't offer me the opportunity to express it without paying too high a price, and this all caused me to behave on SI in ways that hurt people. I was able to rationalize all this in various intellectually dishonest ways. But I don't rationalize it now. I see it clearly, and I wish I'd never followed the path I did then. That isn't really me. I'm sorry. Please forgive me." If it's not a true statement, and you still excuse or defend or deny your behavior, X will continue to do so, too. And it creates a freakish impression. Christopher: to be convincing to anyone (but X) in your new Adlai Stevenson mode, you have to acknowledge what you did to people in your former mode. It's so simple.