i have a feeling we can ALL write, some of us enjoy a bit of pretense

@IamBane actually a good number of us cannot write. i'm not saying that's a dealbreaker; this is a place to express oneself and share ideas and friendship, not a writing competition. as for pretense, i don't see what that has to do with writing ability. are you saying some of us are pretending to be able to write? it's a little difficult to do that since all we have to go on in that regard is the actual writing, which either is well done or isn't. i think by pretense you mean pretentiousness. yep, some folks are pretentious, here as elsewhere. welcome to the world.

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@genessa no, i meant the noun. and it's not one's ability that i question, it's that some "pretend" or feign outrage and concern over topics that don't mean shit....Welcome to MY world!

@IamBane no, i have not perceived that some people's outrage is fake. there is the occasional troll here as anywhere but they're not prevalent. i think people are expressing what they think here.

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@genessa yeah, maybe im projecting...it's fun to get a stir out of someone

@Avicenna a few! it's surprising how many atheists can't spell atheist, though.

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in addition to all the smart-asses i guess

@Avicenna what r u talking about? who's huffy or hurt? then u call me a boy, boy?!? how bout this: fuk u!...and agnosticism's central tenet is NOT running ur mouth until u KNOW how things work; u could learn from this...im glad u brought it up!

@Avicenna zat witty enough 4 ya????????????????

@Avicenna UR > thx

@Avicenna you are right. Thanks.

Trying to keep it brief.

@Avicenna I know. I recognized your sarcasm:"This could have ben written more briefly as, 'Waddyamean?'" I was attempting to respond in kind. I think I struck out.

@Avicenna I didn't intend to encrypt it. I just took the brevity thing to the extreme.

In my defense, brevity is normally not in my nature.

@Avicenna Your prodigious , and profound text has left me vigorously verklempt ! <grin>

@Avicenna Yiddish, I think. So overcome with emotion as to be unable to speak. I never heard it before I married my current wife, who uses it with abandon, but can't recall where she got it from. But I'm guessing it came from her Jewish stepmother.

@Avicenna No; its just that sometimes I discuss my prior wife who died or my first wife who I am divorced from, and I try to keep those separate in my mind, much less the minds of others.

@Avicenna could this not also be a reference to a former wife whom has since been replaced?