@philokalia saidHave you moved on, or merely across to a new thread?
There are some things people will just never agree on.
I'll not talk about these issues. What people do is up to them with it.
God bless, guys.
@sonship saidSo, when you called Ghost of a Duke a stinking drunken leper, it was you using a well thought out analogy relating to "great intellectual arguments" and not you just "speaking loosely"?
Some people here boast when someone does not continue to engage them in discussion. They often fancy that it is because of their great intellectual arguments and superior reasoning that suddenly exchanges have ceased coming. What I said was an analogy. If people avoid someone coming down the street towards them, the avoided one may think it is because of his superior intelle ...[text shortened]... t but because you have germs of some contagious disease or the foul smell of alcohol on your breath.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
My dear Ghost,
I fear I may once have accused you of groping for trout in strange brooks, though my memory of the exact context has been clouded by the passage of time. If this caused you any anguish, please accept my genuine, heartfelt apology and full and unconditional retraction of aforesaid unfounded accusation.
Sincerely yours,
moonbus
@moonbus saidDearest Moonbus,
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
My dear Ghost,
I fear I may once have accused you of groping for trout in strange brooks, though my memory of the exact context has been clouded by the passage of time. If this caused you any anguish, please accept my genuine, heartfelt apology and full and unconditional retraction of aforesaid unfounded accusation.
Sincerely yours,
moonbus
Although not in the least offended myself, I have it on good authority that the trout was most aggrieved and that he had to undergo therapy that cost the poor fish 1200 pounds exactly.
Send the Ghost a cheque for this sum sir and I will pass it on to the slimy fellow.
Highest regards,
Ghost of a Duke
My dear Ghost,
How gentlemanly of you to take no notice of my faux pas. Truly, you are the mold in a blue Stilton.
I am aggrieved that the trout suffered such trauma. Of course, I shall reimburse his fishy psychiatric expense. Do you still reside at 12 Grimmauld Place? The cheque will be in the mail shortly.
Sincerely yours,
moonbus
@fmf saidThe term commonly mistranslated as “leprosy” in English versions of the Bible does not refer to Hanson’s Disease.
So, when you called Ghost of a Duke a stinking drunken leper, it was you using a well thought out analogy relating to "great intellectual arguments" and not you just "speaking loosely"?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X15001820
The original term in Hebrew, tzaraat, referred to a spiritual state, not a medical condition. (Therefore, alleged instances of Jesus ‘curing’ lepers require no medical miracles, but merely a blessing. )
The correct translation in modern English would probably be something like “outcast” or “misfit”.
I leave it to the pundits to judge whether calling the Ghost a misfit is an insult, a compliment, or merely a statement of fact.
@moonbus saidSplendid. And when sonship referred to my bad body odor he was, of course, drawing a correlation with the original term in Hebrew sirchon (foul smelling) and was merely speaking in generalized terms of how an unsaved soul wreaks of materialism.
The term commonly mistranslated as “leprosy” in English versions of the Bible does not refer to Hanson’s Disease.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X15001820
The original term in Hebrew, tzaraat, referred to a spiritual state, not a medical condition. (Therefore, alleged instances of Jesus ‘curing’ lepers require no medical miracles, but ...[text shortened]... judge whether calling the Ghost a misfit is an insult, a compliment, or merely a statement of fact.
In no way was he being deliberately insulting. 😴
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Occasionally a poster loses his temper and spits vitriol at the world. Especially in the SF, at some point reasons run out and for people with very strong convictions this is mightily frustrating; gut reactions may take over when the reasons run dry. Don’t take it personally, you just happened to be in the line of fire.
@moonbus saidDon't worry moonbus, when many try to insult Ghost-of-a-Duke they cannot, they do try, they come up with many of nasty thing to say, but all in all no matter what they come up with in Duke's case it always comes across as a compliment. 🙂
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Occasionally a poster loses his temper and spits vitriol at the world. Especially in the SF, at some point reasons run out and for people with very strong convictions this is mightily frustrating; gut reactions may take over when the reasons run dry. Don’t take it personally, you just happened to be in the line of fire.
@kellyjay saidI think we can all agree that the Duke is a rather resplendent fellow.
Don't worry moonbus, when many try to insult Ghost-of-a-Duke they cannot, they do try, they come up with many of nasty thing to say, but all in all no matter what they come up with in Duke's case it always comes across as a compliment. 🙂
@moonbus saidWater off a Duke's back sir.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Occasionally a poster loses his temper and spits vitriol at the world. Especially in the SF, at some point reasons run out and for people with very strong convictions this is mightily frustrating; gut reactions may take over when the reasons run dry. Don’t take it personally, you just happened to be in the line of fire.
The only issue was sonship creating this thread 4 months on pretending the insult hadn't taken place.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidMy dear Duke,
Water off a Duke's back sir.
The only issue was sonship creating this thread 4 months on pretending the insult hadn't taken place.
You are the teflon on the skillet—nothing sticks to you.
Sincerely yours,
moonbus
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou are one of my favorite posters to either agree or disagree with!
I think we can all agree that the Duke is a rather resplendent fellow.