Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01412)

Alexis:

In a posting where you mentioned that you and three others on
the list where supporting a certain position, I coined the
term "gang of four" with intended humor. The four of your seemed
to like the term and you've already had one outsider join, making
five!

>We were Chrsitened "The Gang of four", which is certainly not a
>compliment, by one of the group to which I referred. That we have
>chosen to flaunt the insult, I do not feel to be a bad thing.

 It's like Gay people calling themselves Queers.
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>Daniel, I submit you cannot have it both ways, you cannot bully someone and
>then complain when they fight back. And I am not just talking about your
>continual sniping at me since I first subscribed to this list. You do this
>to everyone. You're constantly demanding "references and citations" in
>support of statements that may be opinion or may be the result of long
>study. I cannot believe you are so naif as not to realize tht what you're
>doing is very subtly implying that other people have neither valid knowledge
>or valid opinions. I'm not the only person miffed with you and you know it
>very well. You are a very coercive person, and as far as I can ascertain,
>you have never made even the slightest attempt to grant plausability to the
>opinions of others. I have literally "stood on my head" to achieve some kind
>of modus vivendi with you and you will not let me. I have cooperated with
>you in the matter of my genealogy to the extent that it is your business,
>and yet you accuse me of being uncooperative. I have atempted to explain my
>point of view to you repeatedly and am continually acused of "not being
>responsive". In the last few days I have written responses to you any number
>of times in which I have attempted to answer every question you ask. The
>result? As far as I can see it, you ignore everything I do or say and
>continue with the same old accusations. The people on this list are
>obviously following these "strings" of ours and how long do you think you
>can keep it up. Except for Bee Brown to whom I can obviously do no right and
>who I guess thinks I'm a really "bad" person, most of the people on this
>list don't think so, even some with whom I regularly disagree. I have to ask
>you this. Why is it that I can have reasonable and polite discussions with
>Eldon Tucker when he and I disagree on almost everything? Why is it that he
>and I can strongly disagree and remain on a cordial basis? Why don't I
>irritate him the way I obviously do irritate you? We all started off on the
>same basis. If I can have good discussions with eldon and with Jerry schuler
>with whom I also don';t always agree, why is it that I'm so awful where
>you're concerned?
>Thoughts to ponder.
>
>alexis
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