Look at y'all.
Mgmt asks to clean it up and it's just more mudslinging.
For the record, I never advocated murder. That's a lie, oski003.
Yes, dajo, I had a 1 month timeout 2 years ago after I posted photos of various dictators who'd been assassinated. They were bloody graphic photos of Mussolini, Saddam, and Kaddafi (who incidentally my stepfather claimed 15 years ago to have played tennis with in Libya when he was a mere prince of 20 something - oil biz.). In that post, I said, roughly, "this is what happens to tyrants" and "I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happens..."
...Essentially, mob scene insanity uprising murders. (Never imagined the mob would be Trump's army, but that's another subject.)
I extended the timeout to maybe 7 months before I asked back in.
At other times, I have said I would be happy when Trump dies. That remains true.
I have also explored openly the concept of political assassination in terms of Valkyrie, for example. "If you had the chance to take out Hitler in 1935, would you?" I'm ringing your memory bells now, I know.
It's a great philosophical question, of course. It runs against our religious foundation, our laws and our innate moral code: Thou shalt not kill.
Yet, Hitler's machine killed millions upon millions. OF COURSE, the philosophical answer is OF COURSE you would have to take out Hitler, as a Monday morning quarterback.
Of course, none of us know the future. But I was stating that Trump looks like Hitler to me.
Okay, so that's off limits here, too!
Fine. I have no problem with reserving such considerations, the likes of which are for a word far beyond my simple existence, to the deep recesses of my imagination and keeping OT from becoming a breading ground for radical thought. My bad there!
But let's not turn that into "Tom called for violence".
On many occasions I have typed that I am at heart a pacifist who has never punched anyone out of anger other than my brother, even when twice slugged in the face in public - "why did you do that?" to diffuse.
So, look here.
I said in another thread that WE have all created our own HELL here at BI OT. Let's NOT do that.
Let's stop insulting each other.
Let's address issues honestly.
Let's consider the other person as a human, just sitting there on their phone or keyboard looking for something to occupy their time and mind.
We all have families.
We all have valuable life experiences. Successes, failures, hurts and loves.
We are all humans capable of hurting one another, or lifting one another up.
Let's see the human, not the anonymous screen name, and choose the positive pathway there.
It's clear we all get something out of this forum, else we wouldn't be here.
If you guys want to continue with the hatred and the lies and attacks, I'm out. I can't take it anymore!!!
The future of OT, the choice will be yours, with every post you make. For me, I'll be accountable to myself going forward. I'm turning a fresh leaf. In fact, I already had. I vomited up the puke of what we created, how I reacted, and have sworn it off. Not going back into the BI OT cesspool bar again.
So, what kind of (better) place can we create, together?
Tell me about your day, a project you're working on, a favorite vacation you've taken.
I'll start. I saw a urologist today because I have a kidney stone (again) that has to be removed! Anyone? Anyone?
I apologize to those I've angered and insulted.
Please forgive me.
I certainly hope not to do so again.
Mgmt asks to clean it up and it's just more mudslinging.
For the record, I never advocated murder. That's a lie, oski003.
Yes, dajo, I had a 1 month timeout 2 years ago after I posted photos of various dictators who'd been assassinated. They were bloody graphic photos of Mussolini, Saddam, and Kaddafi (who incidentally my stepfather claimed 15 years ago to have played tennis with in Libya when he was a mere prince of 20 something - oil biz.). In that post, I said, roughly, "this is what happens to tyrants" and "I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happens..."
...Essentially, mob scene insanity uprising murders. (Never imagined the mob would be Trump's army, but that's another subject.)
I extended the timeout to maybe 7 months before I asked back in.
At other times, I have said I would be happy when Trump dies. That remains true.
I have also explored openly the concept of political assassination in terms of Valkyrie, for example. "If you had the chance to take out Hitler in 1935, would you?" I'm ringing your memory bells now, I know.
It's a great philosophical question, of course. It runs against our religious foundation, our laws and our innate moral code: Thou shalt not kill.
Yet, Hitler's machine killed millions upon millions. OF COURSE, the philosophical answer is OF COURSE you would have to take out Hitler, as a Monday morning quarterback.
Of course, none of us know the future. But I was stating that Trump looks like Hitler to me.
Okay, so that's off limits here, too!
Fine. I have no problem with reserving such considerations, the likes of which are for a word far beyond my simple existence, to the deep recesses of my imagination and keeping OT from becoming a breading ground for radical thought. My bad there!
But let's not turn that into "Tom called for violence".
On many occasions I have typed that I am at heart a pacifist who has never punched anyone out of anger other than my brother, even when twice slugged in the face in public - "why did you do that?" to diffuse.
So, look here.
I said in another thread that WE have all created our own HELL here at BI OT. Let's NOT do that.
Let's stop insulting each other.
Let's address issues honestly.
Let's consider the other person as a human, just sitting there on their phone or keyboard looking for something to occupy their time and mind.
We all have families.
We all have valuable life experiences. Successes, failures, hurts and loves.
We are all humans capable of hurting one another, or lifting one another up.
Let's see the human, not the anonymous screen name, and choose the positive pathway there.
It's clear we all get something out of this forum, else we wouldn't be here.
If you guys want to continue with the hatred and the lies and attacks, I'm out. I can't take it anymore!!!
The future of OT, the choice will be yours, with every post you make. For me, I'll be accountable to myself going forward. I'm turning a fresh leaf. In fact, I already had. I vomited up the puke of what we created, how I reacted, and have sworn it off. Not going back into the BI OT cesspool bar again.
So, what kind of (better) place can we create, together?
Tell me about your day, a project you're working on, a favorite vacation you've taken.
I'll start. I saw a urologist today because I have a kidney stone (again) that has to be removed! Anyone? Anyone?
I apologize to those I've angered and insulted.
Please forgive me.
I certainly hope not to do so again.