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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: coug who wrote (88420)	11/13/2004 11:13:55 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We got some issues? <g>

To: coug who wrote (88420)	11/14/2004 1:52:09 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Coug, did you used to go by another alias? Your profile says you've been at SI since 1997, but I don't remember you.

To: coug who wrote (88420)	11/14/2004 11:01:12 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't remember posting to you, so this hostile message is a surprise. You can appreciate that it feels as though a virtual stranger dropped by only to squirt a bit of mystery-vitriol on me. You must think I did something to deserved it, though. If you don't have me mixed up with someone else, I must have thought what I said to you was fair. I take it that you were a friend of Chris Land's. FYI, although I think (and SI Admin thought) that his unwelcome posts to the woman I mentioned were inappropriate, I had nothing whatever to do with his banning. I have never asked SI Admin to ban anyone, including Chris Land. If water over "the damned" is because I called CL a "fundie wierdo," well, coug, plenty of fundamentalists would agree that CL was a wierdo. If that offended you, I apologize. I would be interested to see the post you consider to have been "reaming [you] out," but if you can't put your finger on it, please give me a clue as to what each of us said at the time, okay? What was the "wrong by another" that you pointed out? Who was the "another" and what was the "wrong"? Why did the exchange suggest to you that my "mind" is "NOT TOO clean"? I think fairness suggests that if someone posts as insultingly to someone as you have just done to me, the object of the insults has a right to know what they did to deserve them. I do apologize for offending you and hurting your feelings -- because you still feel it two years later, and felt you were only pointing something out, I accept that I must have overreacted. Maybe I was having a bad day or something. (Not an excuse, I know.) I'm very sorry. If you'll clarify, I'll try to explain where I was coming from at the time, if I can.

To: coug who wrote (88420)	11/14/2004 11:52:27 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Coug, I think I would like to comment on your post to E again. I don't think I did a very good job the first time. Let's Talk About Our Feelings tries to be a thread where hurt feelings can be worked out. I have been gone several years, but now that I am back I am trying to help make this thread a place where people can disagree vehemently about ideas or politics or any subject, really, but respectfully, in a way that doesn't disintegrate into personal attacks filled with venom. I think almost everyone here has been involved in some long and nasty battle of words. I know I have. It wasn't very pleasant! But we are trying to turn over a new leaf and have a thread where anyone who can stay civil is welcome, and a wide variety of posters can feel comfortable. It is impossible for me to know what happened with you and E. It is VERY easy to get into a fight electronically because there is no particular motivation to be polite or resolve issues like we have to with friends, coworkers and neighbors (unless we want to live the rest of our lives as snarling scary hermits). So I really hope the two of you can resolve your misunderstanding in a positive way.