Originally posted by FMF
If you think I am being dishonest or something, that's fine. I'm just trying to be polite. The way you turn nasty when you get caught out or if someone crosses you is surely calculated on your part? Pointing it out can hardly be "character assassination", can it?
No i dont think you are being dishonest, you are merely expressing an opinion.
As for calculated insults, yes I really do think that you have erred in this regard, for they serve absolutely no purpose.
My experience has been that insults are resorted to when the course of reason has been exhausted, or when a sense of frustration ensues with an unreasonable contributor, or as a kind of retribution for other perceived insults. More often than not, its simply a misunderstanding, you see it frequently here with assertions of lying, when it really nothing of the sort, someone interprets a statement in some way, they make an assertion of lying, when all that has transpired is that they have failed to understand another's perspective. Thus it escalates into name calling. I agree that for a professed Christian this is unacceptable, entirely.
Whether this little tentative attempt to 'reach out', to me, (how else am i supposed to construe it?) is character assassination or not, i cannot say, for perhaps you really do mean well and i suppose that i should impute pure motives to you, although try to understand that from past experience, i am somewhat wary.
BTW I watched an Indonesian film the other day, Jermal, have you seen it?