Pondero:
I would like to hear the views of a Northern Ireland Protestant
This thread is actually the first one you have really taken an interest in on Catholic Answers. At one point, after whining about being told off (a pattern apparently for you) on the BBC board and on the Sparrows board (both British message boards), you said that you didn’t think you would like Catholic Answers, in spite of it being Catholic because you preferred the company of the English. Both the BBC and Sparrows will bend over backwards to accommodate your preferences.
Pondero:
because you folks are like the Borg on StarTrek, “We are one”
Projective identification. The Borg said, “We will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.” They never said, “We are one.” Do the math.
Pondero:
Reminds me of the Irish immigrants who tried to make a living taking in each other’s washing.
Do you have an arsenal of racist comments where you got that one from? Notice I said ‘racist’ not ‘anti-Catholic’ because – as was predictable all along – your reference was to the Irish and not to the Catholics. As I recall you were quite unpleasant with one of the Sparrows founders – an extremely learned gentleman – while we were all on the BBC board. To the extent that he did not want to have anything further to do with you when you followed us to h2g2. He was willing to get along so that we could set up Sparrows and because we asked him to. You however…sheesh, it was like pulling hen’s teeth.
Pondero:
Stop patting each other on the back and listen to an opposing view for a change, you might learn something.
Start
relating to what we have posted, instead of tautologizing, lecturing, and evading our points by appeals to anecdotes about your self-absorbed encounters with the Irish. I gather you have had unpleasant experiences ‘discussing’ evolution on the BBC boards. And I gather Sparrows has been closed for repairs. So you have landed here. As I have explained to you before, Catholic Answers has a lot of different levels for all sorts of different folks, interests, and abilities. I didn’t start out on the News forum.
I started out in the Water Cooler and then cautiously moved into Apologetics and then into News. The difference between Catholic Answers and the BBC is that Catholic Answers is somewhere where a person can learn some rigour and discipline about how to apply Catholic scholarship, whereas the BBC is a freeforall of opinion and insider groups. If you want some respect on Catholic Answers, then pay your dues like the rest of us did by respecting those with more experience.
But oh no. You want to drop straight into the News forum and challenge at least one poster who is absolutely renowned on CA for his learnedness: Vern. You have made some quite offensive remarks for which you have apologized and then gone straight on to repeat your behaviour. I have asked you to stand down. You have refused. I have put you on my ignore list and find I now have to take you off again because you have succeeded in drawing Vern and Stiofan into your continued disruption of this thread.
There is no point in reminding you that the moderator may choose to close this thread if this ‘dispute’ continues. In my opinion, and unless someone persuades me otherwise, your contribution to this thread has all the hallmarks of a scorched earth policy. I am not persuaded that you care if the thread is closed. Whereas several of us, I am sure,
do care.
Your obstinacy in not standing down is unhelpful, unfriendly, and
seeks status over others where none has been earned. All of this could have been avoided in a very simple fashion: you could have put your evolution books down for a few minutes and taken the trouble to do the neighbourly thing which is
read up on Irish history.
You will get no further attention from me. And frankly this sorry encounter has done nothing to allay my reservations concerning peace for the six. Pat
yourself on the back.
