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[fpb]

For various reasons, personal as much as public, I have reached a point where I am no longer willing to put up with bad faith. I have just defriended and banned someone who promised to show that "Christians" are morally equivalent to the perverts who react to defeat by threats of violence; and then went on to produce Leviticus as evidence, as if it was not one of the basic doctrines of Christianity that the Old Law is abolished for Christians. At this point in my life, I do not have the endurance to put up with this kind of bad faith or prejudiced ignorance or both. By the same token, people who intervene with mindless restatements of faddish nonsense will have their interventions deleted without comment or explanation. If and when things get better, perhaps I shall be more willing to put up with rubbish, but the continued, ugly and painful grind in my private life simply does not leave me the patience to deal with moral rottenness and bad faith. I am not a saint and I have no delegation from anyone to argue with any twit who should turn up with a putrid idea and a lot of persistence. And since they will say that I delete their opinions anyway, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb and do exactly what years of defamation have charged me with doing.

EDITED IN: The person whom I defriended published a post full of lies about the event. To judge the rest, anyone who is interested may like to know that she begged me to be placed on my f-list, twice; the first time through intermediaries, and the second in person. Now she denies it. It goes downhill from there. Well, have fun, honey. If I could be bothered to pick you up on all your lies, I would make you look like a rat, but I really have just had enough of this kind of crap.

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

While I lack your rather fearsome temper, this sort of thing is why I elected to allow only private comments on my current (non-LJ) blog. Things get much uglier when there is an audience to be played to.

Since you are operating a public (if personal) forum here, deleting stupid comments which find you can neither leave unanswered nor answer dispassionately is probably the best thing you can do. To be honest -- speaking as someone who has come to admire you a great deal, but cringes whenever I see these train wrecks developing -- I wish you'd started doing it a long time ago. Doubly so right now, when you are under an inordinate amount of stress in your personal life.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

(actually, screening comments might be a better idea)