From: wolfe@wolves.uucp (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Templars not Masons <flame risk HIGH>
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:46:33 GMT
Organization: Red Wolfe @ The Wolves Den
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In <9TTTRB1w165w@eagles.uucp> hulda@eagles.uucp (Hulda Thunarsson) writes:
>> Grendel
	(was overly harsh on Hulda)
>
>Well I must apolgise, I haven't been following the conversation.
>Just recently we acquired a 'puter that would gain access to the bbs's.
>And I admitt, my first postings leave alot to be desired. The opinions
>expressed by me are purely my own. They were never intended to reflect the
>opinions of Asatru or Eagles Reaches. And I regret the impact they seem to 
>have had on both.

	Hulda, people overreact.  Its a human trait.  They get excited
by somthing that is said, and the excess energy has to be dissapated
somewhere,  you just managed to be the sink for that energy this time
around.

	The only reason your comments were interpreted as being
applicable to Asatru was that the way you wrote them seemed to imply
that *you* were considering *your* statements as being representative of
Asatru.  I overreacted, and said some things that were definately
uncalled for,  I should have aimed only at you, and not at your
religion.

	I don't think anyone particularly applies your opinions to a
computer system or group of individuals.

>                   I feel that anything that might be posted either now or
>in the future will be cast under that dark shadow already hanging over my
>head, so therefore I am removing myself form this bbs. 

	You've been singed a little bit, and now you're going to slink
off into a corner and whine about getting taken to task for something
you said that was misinterpreted by the readers.  Cute.

	Apologizing, and remaining silent for a while are one thing.  It
allows the situation to calm down, and for the participants to move
onward, I often walk away from tense situations, simply so that I won't
hit blindly in a rage.

	But no, you're not going to be mature about it.  Instead you
announce that you intend to pick up your ball and go home, or rather,
you're going to "go out in the yard and eat worms."

>Please disreguard any other postings I have made. As I feel anything attached
>to my name would probably do more harm than good.  I would at this time
>agree with your expressions on Teutonic Knights but it would be for naught.
>As would any comments as to what you have done concerning Asatru.
>
>                                             I go in peace,
>                                                Hulda

In peace?  To go in peace would be to simply walk away in silence.
Instead, you pick a childish ploy, intended to let everyone know just
how "wronged" you are.

Am I being harsh?  You bet.  This sort of thing happens all too often on
the net.  Someone makes a silly remark, and someone "flames" them for
it.  Instead of recognizing that the initial remark was silly (or
grossly misinterpreted - which is the case here), the prepetrator begins
whining about being held responsible for what they said.

I've been taken down for this tactic time and time again!  It only took
me 5 years to recognize that it was unfair and inurbane.

If you want to go away and not risk getting challenged when you make
unsupportable assertions, fine, just don't try to place the blame on
"them"  Nobody wins that way.

				Wolfe
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