Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 45 The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 May 2009 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5449 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== David Stockhoff — 20 May 2009, 12:30 I did not say that at all. You merely assumed it, because you substitute assumption for thought. And that's what gets you called a wingnut, not the other thing. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:32:11 -0400 > From: Daniel D Jones > Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again) > To: The Urth Mailing List > Message-ID: <200905200732.11412.ddjones at riddlemaster.org> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:24:44 David Stockhoff wrote: > > Sorry, when did I say the American Civil War was justified? It was not. > > See, I've read up on it a bit. > > > You seem to be implying that the current government is one which rules "with > the consent of the governed." I was pointing out that it was, in fact, no > such thing. > > BTW, in my last post, I meant to add a ";)" after I called you a wingnut. > > > > You're still a wingnut, but I don't mean it in a nasty way. ;) > > > Trust me, I've been called much worse than that and in a quite nasty way. I > don't take offense easily. I do think it's sad, however, that simply > believing in the freedom of the individual is so far from mainstream thought > that it gets me called a "wingnut." > > > > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------