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Which cult am I a member of? P.S. - Dear dang, with regards to our previous discussion elsewhere. Observe the above.

kergonath 3y ago
I wasn’t going to elaborate because that’s way out of topic. But since you ask, here we go, at the risk of over-analysing. > Which cult am I a member of? I did not write that you were part of one, just that what you wrote sounded like it. In this case, one for which such strange behaviour would be normal and failing to grasp how outlandish it seems to anyone else, chiding an outsider who does not believe it. Which is of course internally inconsistent because you also seem to support the story’s author, who himself wrote how bizarre it was. Therefore I would think that you’d understand how someone else could find it unbelievable (which you seem to come to in your other comment). To be fair the main issue I have with your post, and why I replied at all, was how out of line its aggressiveness was compared to the OP, who merely expressed confusion. I don’t know who you are or what your perspective is on this, but there must be other ways of making your point. The fact that several other people in the thread have a hard time believing it should tell you how utterly strange it is. And yet, you interpret them as attacks to the author, which they really don’t seem to be (apart from a comment from a throwaway account, which gets rightly called out). > P.S. - Dear dang, with regards to our previous discussion elsewhere. Observe the above. Ok. First, that’s rude to drop me in a private conversation about which I don’t know anything line that. If you want to use my comments to make a point, at least keep it private. Second, he does not read every single comment. If you want to write something he’ll see, a good place would be your private discussion elsewhere.
- verticalscaler 3y ago
  > I did not write that you were part of one, just that what you wrote sounded like it. > I don’t know who you are or what your perspective is on this, but there must be other ways of making your point. I'm struggling a bit here. Help me out, saying I sound like I'm in a cult is good manners? And which cult does it sound like I'm in?

I wasn’t going to elaborate because that’s way out of topic. But since you ask, here we go, at the risk of over-analysing. > Which cult am I a member of? I did not write that you were part of one, just that what you wrote sounded like it. In this case, one for which such strange behaviour would be normal and failing to grasp how outlandish it seems to anyone else, chiding an outsider who does not believe it. Which is of course internally inconsistent because you also seem to support the story’s author, who himself wrote how bizarre it was. Therefore I would think that you’d understand how someone else could find it unbelievable (which you seem to come to in your other comment). To be fair the main issue I have with your post, and why I replied at all, was how out of line its aggressiveness was compared to the OP, who merely expressed confusion. I don’t know who you are or what your perspective is on this, but there must be other ways of making your point. The fact that several other people in the thread have a hard time believing it should tell you how utterly strange it is. And yet, you interpret them as attacks to the author, which they really don’t seem to be (apart from a comment from a throwaway account, which gets rightly called out). > P.S. - Dear dang, with regards to our previous discussion elsewhere. Observe the above. Ok. First, that’s rude to drop me in a private conversation about which I don’t know anything line that. If you want to use my comments to make a point, at least keep it private. Second, he does not read every single comment. If you want to write something he’ll see, a good place would be your private discussion elsewhere.

verticalscaler 3y ago
> I did not write that you were part of one, just that what you wrote sounded like it. > I don’t know who you are or what your perspective is on this, but there must be other ways of making your point. I'm struggling a bit here. Help me out, saying I sound like I'm in a cult is good manners? And which cult does it sound like I'm in?