Try clicking on: @Triphid to see if it says that user isn't available. If that's the case, he blocked you so long ago you never even saw him.

@ChestRockfield That could very well be the case, and to which I say all the better. No harm, no foul. TTFN.

Or accommodate him, somehow. So far, he hasn't been nasty to me despite the fact that I told him, to his face so to speak, that I didn't like him much. Lol He seemed OK with that with no nasty come back.
Because he is a straight talker, maybe he appreciates straight talk back to him - MAYBE. Still, no need to be aggressive though.

I just blocked him. First time I have ever blocked anyone anywhere in the internet. In about 25 years of being on line.
I'm not sensitive either. LOL.

I only did it to piss him off

And we will probably do so again in the future BECAUSE I do NOT see anywhere where it is WRITTEN in stone that I must AGREE with everyone, I am an Individual, ergo, you can either lump it or leave, the choice, as they say IS YOURS.

@Triphid Often it's not about what someone says but how they say it. Yes, people should agree to disagree but it should be done so in a peaceful, civilized manner.

I think he is lonely.

If we are unhappy when we are alone then we are in the wrong company. Some people do not like it when their view of life, no matter how jaundiced, is not supported and they even do not like it if you agree with them. Similar to a religion they have invested and lot of time in their views which have shaped their sense of identity and their interactions with other people serve to confirm a self fulfilling prophesy.

That crazy motherfucker @GreenAtheist DM'd the fuck out of me before he blocked me. I still need to make the "I was blocked" post about that dumb fuckin' asshole.

This is the most cogent posting you have ever done. Congratulations.

@Mooolah cogent because others aren't? Or is that simply your indoctrination \ cognitive dissonance not allowing you to see otherwise?

I agree with what you are saying and I did confront him about it privately and was faced with more vitriol. This thread is helpful to the people like me who were harmed by such encounters. Frankly, it gives me a little comfort to know that other saw the same thing I did.

@MyTVC15 Please do not permit people to harm you with words. He is disturbed. Many of us who have encountered him know this.

@Mooolah Since this discussion, I feel like I can breath. The last thing he posted to me was a demand for me to leave the site and I have felt unwanted here ever since. But I feel better now knowing that others saw it too.

That's his fault. If he hadn't blocked the OP, he'd be able to read this...

@ChestRockfield Yeah, that's true.

Ryo1 : There's no defense. This is not a trial.

As far as talking behind his back, I put my 2 words to him in my original post.

@twill You did, indeed!

@MyTVC15 godlike delusions. He's an English & American hating outback Australian with delusions of godlike abilities. His only daughter died on him when 15. His wife left him.
He's aka a well balanced bloke - he has bloody big chips on both shoulders.
This was probably due to catholic schooling if not seminary study.
He has claimed to have qualified as a nurse, train driver & TNT truck driver. The latter resulted in a crater in the road that still has not been filled in. The middle left him with uncompensated badly burned lungs & nasal packages still weeping like Niagara falls from his nose.

He does not deny Australian FNP (aboriginal) heritage but frequently despises them.

Join the blocked club.

Ah but thanks to YOU he can now.

@twill But, imo, lack the BALLS of a MAN to confront me message to message, WHY, is it because cleaning Lycra pants that are filled with shit is both laborious and time consuming for a , imo, self-righteous old Twat?
Yeah, that's right I'm BACK, so go suck eggs and tell your Grannie she wants you Mr. Tough man.

@Triphid And he blocked you this time. What a shame! Lol!

I was with you until you started in on @LiterateHiker. I just haven't seen any sign of what you contend about her.

@Flyingsaucesir Well, you're lucky if you haven't happened to cross that crazy bitch. She's completely irrational. If you say a single word that shows her point of view doesn't make sense she blocks you and rails about how you're a toxic male mansplaining to her and her cronies.
Read my initial reply to her (I have it all if you'd like to read it, but she lets her posse do most of the responding and when she finally chimes in, she almost immediately blocks me) and tell me I'm being unreasonable. It was a legitimate, reasoned response, and I even concluded it agreeing that the guy she had a problem with did do something wrong. But that's not good enough for her. No, you need to constantly be genuflecting and kissing her ring (or ass?). After she blocked me she tried to suggest my conduct was "against community guidelines" and encouraged everyone else to report me to admin. I didn't call people names (even after she called me an asshole) or anything of the sort. I simple showed why her position didn't make any sense.

@ChestRockfield Duly noted.

@ChestRockfield I enjoy her stories about how no man on the planet is good enough for her.

@Secretguy I guess it's easier to pretend she doesn't want them than admit no guy would ever be able to stand being in a relationship with her.

As usual an erudite opinion from you.
I notice that you use the word "word salad" in your response. I had not associated that with him just a habit of him reading what I have written to be the opposite of what it is. . . I write "black" he associates "white", I write "yes" he understands me to say "no".
Aren't word salads associated with schizophrenia?

I am saddened though that the world leaves you seeking amusement from your now fixed opinion (perceived clown) of what may well be an Asperger's autistic person.

I liken it to any form of indoctrinated \ societal phobia.

Your solution whilst providing temporary relief for yourself does not benefit the subject of your scorn.

However there comes a time when you have better things to do with your life so blocking - the equivalent of humane euthanasia is the only intelligent solution.

Other than that, how is life treating you? I'm pleased to read that you are still contributing.

@FrayedBear The word salad reference came from an occasion wherein I posted something (typically wordy) awhile back and if not using exactly that term, the spirit of it was employed by him as a criticism, in his own verbose style. I seldom take the time to edit anything but typos and gross grammatical errors. This kind of format is for exchanging ideas and neither publishing essays nor making legal cases with evidentiary rules applying. It is simply discussion.

Some people here want to make it into the stuff worthy of grave indictments of motives. There isn't anything barring the mentally ill from participating here or anywhere. When and if they do, (me, possibly, included) I don't subscribe to the sentiment that their disabilities should merit cutting them slack; as they do in sporting leagues, for players of lesser gods. The use of humor does trigger 'the extreme', whether they suffer an emotional condition or just addiction to an ideology or theology. Fanatics of any mental capacity have ZERO sense of humor and are thus 'putty in the hands' of one who wishes to inspire maniacal responses.

When people lead a post or reply with insults, for me invitation for a return volley is devilishly tempting; so much so that mood sometimes overrules opportunities to just play the flow. The latter, however, offers greater persuasive opportunities. When they go for a messenger with intolerance and cruelty, it automatically discloses a distancing from reality of whatever their thought system is. That IS clinical.

If one takes insults and disparaging names and insinuations to heart, perhaps blocking makes a rational tactic. I don't block and I'm certainly not insulted by juvenile tactics. If I gain a healthy respect for a person's character and outlook on reality over time and they say something hurtful, it only hurts for a little while. Sometimes it's also worth reflecting on. From an ideologue or disturbed personality such things should be like the proverbial water on a duck.

'Sticks and stones can break my bones but names can only help me' among the non-committed and yet to become persuaded.

The amount of strident fanaticism here, for an allegedly 'free thinking' site, is astonishing. Atheists are a lot more fun to confront than propagators of theologies. I think it's because there is an attitude that more respect for ideas is automatically due because of having rejected only a certain class of salvation and protection rackets because their lies and promises are based on superstitions.

I love the process of pointing out that theologians have no monopoly on bullshit.

@Silver1wun I understand your reasoning but when does your baiting or retaliation turn to petty trolling? I have in the past found much of what he posted admirable but then it was almost as it someone was changing what either I or he wrote in reply turned meaning on its head. Eventually I stopped reasoning with him & just continued my way until like Russia defending Ukrainian Russian speakers he was forced to block me & I no longer had to put up with his crap.
Interestingly I used to be the moderator of Aussie Sceptics but lost it when I encountered a couple of woke trolls who made so many complaints against me that the program had to suspend me. He being another regular in the group gained the position. When I got back in I let him keep the responsibility. I'm still undecided whether I regret not demanding it back or not. That he has not blocked me from the group at least allows him to see through my posts to that group that I'm not undermining him.

@FrayedBear One who enjoys questioning is often labeled as a dual means of dodging and discrediting. It is endemic among those holding extreme group attitudes (read herds). There really isn't any functional difference between misuse and distortion of language to accommodate those motives from one term to the next; be one labeled racist, anti-Semite, misogynist, this or that 'phobe' or simply a troll.

The indoctrinated might have differences in their herds, differences in their identities, differences in their respective herders. What they share is common functional principles that reveal how alike they are, even those who despise one another and consider themselves to be adversaries.

Question the herd, any herd, and be prepared for the question to be dismissed and the answer to be about YOU.

@Silver1wun Very true. Being atypical I tend to forget instinctive herd protective behaviour.

Complaint? You called my post a complaint? WTF....

Not ancient, just tired of self-righteous Seppos who THINK they are the Be All, End all of everything, that is what gets up my nose.

@Triphid My friend, I think you need to seriously consider that perhaps "The Hokey Pokey" really IS what it is all about.