It's become apparent that now is the time for me to leave sciforums. I'm not going to lie or try and save someone's feelings (frankly because the person will not be at all hurt by this). A short while before Ortho left the site my mindset changed and I ceased to be such an extravagently arrogant and insulting basterd. Not because I felt bad or because I felt I owed it to anyone else, but because I felt I owed it to myself. Being insulting and condescending was getting me no where with most debates and discussions, people were too busy trying to reply to my insults to ever think about accepting or even understanding my side. I figured that it was worth a shot to try being polite, well-mannered and overall more like the members here who I respect and admire; Q, Wet1, Goofyfish and others. I found quite instantly that people were considering my ideas more (be they right or wrong) and I was able to better voice my opinions. However, shorlty after with a member who's intellect and opinion have been a monsterous force to this board (for both great good and, occasionally, detrimental affects) decided to reply to my calm, emotionless posts with full insults and anger and, most of all, extremely condescending comments and an obvious lack of respect for myself. This doesn't hurt, it doesn't affect me emotionally except to make me slightly frustrated. I find it impossible to debate or discuss when Xev is calling me a "bigot", "pussy", "member of the herd", "sheep", "not worth (her) time". She has repeatadly ignored parts of my posts in order to try and make me look stupid. A good example of this is in the Catholic thread when she calmly points out that the pilgrams were not seeing the pope as an idol in the Biblical sense. My reply was "That's true. Good point." The very next post featured Xev yelling at me for being a bigot and pussy because I can't show that they see hte pope as an idol in the OT sense. She has chosen to do this in numerous threads and it effectively ruins a debate.
Now, there is little doubt Xev will choose to call me weak or a pussy or pathetic again for leaving sciforums because of her. However, I am leaving not because I've been scared away or hurt or annoyed. About a week ago I made a decision to try and stay away from any thread Xev posts in. She once said; "You're treading on my turf." In the course of that week Xev's "turf" as I saw it was General Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. I believed I could stick to Free Thoughts, Arts and World Politics without having to get annoyed at a thread. Then the Kirsten Dunst thread and the one on Musical Pedagogy came along and I was, with absolutely no emotion involved, made to apparently be a complete idiot, "sheep" and overly emotional. I pointed out a fact of medical pedagogy (a topic I happen to be quite engrosed in because my mother) and Xev answered back with "Hands Tyler a Hershey Bar and Titanic......feel better now?". Nothing actually truly bugged me there until she said fadingcaptain had no balls and replied in some kind of emotional manner when his reply, to the best I could see, was quite light-hearted. Xev may have something personal against me, but I don't think she has anything against fading.
Anyway, as I was saying. I now find myself stuck in Free Thoughts and World Politics if I ever feel like having a discussion on sciforums. Personally, I don't want to remember sciforums this way. I will continue to read sciforums and will probably end up replying again eventually, but to the minute Xev has never apologized (I believe she is against apologizing, but I may be wrong on this) and, more importantly, has never once stated that she acted wrongly. Like I said, this doesn't affect me emotionally at all. All it does is prove that she's not about to slow down and possibly doesn't even think she's done anything detrimental.
So, I would like to make a couple mentions before I leave.
Goofyfish, Wet1, Cris and Q; Thank you very kindly for hours of interesting reading and a very good attitude no matter what. You have been a model to me.
Polux V and Cactus Jack; Always interesting guys near my age, a great group to talk to about anything.
*strgrl*; Thanks for allowing me to meet my first blind patriot I ever truly liked!
Adam; Sharp-witted and quick you remained informative and intelligent, thank you kindly.
Asgaurd; Keep working buddy, you've got everyone at sciforums on your side and I will still be happy to talk to you on ICQ.
Xev; Thank you for making my initial stay at sciforums interesting, providing me with an opponent in philosophy, giving me extra sources and every discussion we use to have.
For anyone who wishes to talk to me, I am happy to talk with anyone from sciforums on ICQ (58851316) or by e-mail (Pavel_9@hotmail.com). Thanks for everything guys, but I am no longer allowed to be a valuable member here, so I'm gone.
Now, there is little doubt Xev will choose to call me weak or a pussy or pathetic again for leaving sciforums because of her. However, I am leaving not because I've been scared away or hurt or annoyed. About a week ago I made a decision to try and stay away from any thread Xev posts in. She once said; "You're treading on my turf." In the course of that week Xev's "turf" as I saw it was General Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. I believed I could stick to Free Thoughts, Arts and World Politics without having to get annoyed at a thread. Then the Kirsten Dunst thread and the one on Musical Pedagogy came along and I was, with absolutely no emotion involved, made to apparently be a complete idiot, "sheep" and overly emotional. I pointed out a fact of medical pedagogy (a topic I happen to be quite engrosed in because my mother) and Xev answered back with "Hands Tyler a Hershey Bar and Titanic......feel better now?". Nothing actually truly bugged me there until she said fadingcaptain had no balls and replied in some kind of emotional manner when his reply, to the best I could see, was quite light-hearted. Xev may have something personal against me, but I don't think she has anything against fading.
Anyway, as I was saying. I now find myself stuck in Free Thoughts and World Politics if I ever feel like having a discussion on sciforums. Personally, I don't want to remember sciforums this way. I will continue to read sciforums and will probably end up replying again eventually, but to the minute Xev has never apologized (I believe she is against apologizing, but I may be wrong on this) and, more importantly, has never once stated that she acted wrongly. Like I said, this doesn't affect me emotionally at all. All it does is prove that she's not about to slow down and possibly doesn't even think she's done anything detrimental.
So, I would like to make a couple mentions before I leave.
Goofyfish, Wet1, Cris and Q; Thank you very kindly for hours of interesting reading and a very good attitude no matter what. You have been a model to me.
Polux V and Cactus Jack; Always interesting guys near my age, a great group to talk to about anything.
*strgrl*; Thanks for allowing me to meet my first blind patriot I ever truly liked!
Adam; Sharp-witted and quick you remained informative and intelligent, thank you kindly.
Asgaurd; Keep working buddy, you've got everyone at sciforums on your side and I will still be happy to talk to you on ICQ.
Xev; Thank you for making my initial stay at sciforums interesting, providing me with an opponent in philosophy, giving me extra sources and every discussion we use to have.
For anyone who wishes to talk to me, I am happy to talk with anyone from sciforums on ICQ (58851316) or by e-mail (Pavel_9@hotmail.com). Thanks for everything guys, but I am no longer allowed to be a valuable member here, so I'm gone.