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Sunday 21 October 2007
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
Your patience with twits like 'Pablo' is quite remarkable.
ReplyDeleteI can't claim any virtue there, Tex. Quite literally, anyone who has a condition like mine has to be both patient and extremely persistent, tenacious even. If they're not, they die. It's a survival skill that you have to develop.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it makes good sense. A rational, cool answer is far more convincing to lurkers than some shrill, hysterical response. The whole idea of these posts is to educate, to let people know what the situation really is, and to counter the misinformation that's out there. Otherwise it's just vanity, for ego-boo.
3 years ago, I knew nothing about this. So I can't exactly blame anyone who is as ignorant of the facts as I was. All I can do is try to inform, to get at the grassroots, if you like.
We call it "moving the mountain one teaspoonful at a time", and that is what transition is like for many. I was lucky. I got the FTL version, which while it took some intellectual flexibility, didn't take the indomitable courage that most have to show.
That's why I feel obligated to do a bit more than most. "From those to whom much has been given, much will be expected." (Luke 12:48) Not that I'm a Christian, but I find a knowledge of scripture useful when dealing with certain opponents. So many of them are so ignorant of what their Bible actually says, e.g. Isaiah 56:4-5. They know what it says (their pastor told them), so don't actually bother reading it.