On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:15:00 -0700, > wrote:

 TR> On 09-23-05, ED HULETT said to TIM RICHARDSON:


 TR>> This is too rich. First, they are all complaining about nobody
 TR> wanting to
 TR>> "debate" them.


 EH>> They have no idea what debate is.


 TR> Their real intent is not "debate".

Of course. The traffic in this echo dies down to almost
nothing when there isn't anyone for them to attack.

 EH>> It is their fault that this echo is almost dead.


 TR> If I were to thumb back through my .qwk packet archives (I've got over
 TR> four
 TR> thousand of them), You could see several of them openly expressing the
 TR> *real*
 TR> intentions they have here;

No need, I've been reading this echo off and on for years.

 TR> In many packets this echo's participants are few. And they post their
 TR> desire
 TR> to each other for some Christian to come along they can rip up one side
 TR> and
 TR> down the other.

They don't allow for debate. Otherwise, they'd have to actually back up their
silly claims.

 TR> In the recent past, a Christian who saw this echo in the list and,
 TR> thinking it
 TR> was a Christian echo he came in.

 TR> The attacks on him were immediate.

I've seen them do the same to several.

 TR> While he was here, this echo had more traffic in a few days than it had
 TR> in a
 TR> couple of years. In the last few days that we've been in here,I saw more
 TR> than
 TR> fifty messages fo the first time in years.

Yep. Just think, this all started with an innocent question why there wasn't
very much traffic in here. Ironic.

 TR> When you and I stop answering these people and go back out, it'll die
 TR> down
 TR> again.

Well, they will have to pat each other on the back and tell each other
how they got us to "run away again." As if someone could run away in a
text based forum.

Ed

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