14th July 2003, 12:56 PM
Pardon? You must have misunderstood me. I guess you really did have a lot of emotion over it, or you're just mad at me about something. During those times you tend to see hostility where there is none.
What I was attempting to do was not argue over what occured, but merely say that it wasn't a big dramatic story. It started as a joke you know, what with the whole book thing, but you seem to be very upset at the suggestion that the whole event may have been nothing more than some online fun little pretend war thing (note that I purposefully put it in a way that would put it in the worst light possible, no need to tell me that "just because it's online doesn't mean the emotions aren't real!" or something like that). Really now, I'm attempting to defend myself and any others who didn't "participate". IT's as though you've secretly harbored ill will towards people who didn't "fight the good fight". I mean, Weltall did all the real work anyway, creating this fine place for us. All the debating likely did nothing. Did you finally convince him to stop deleting links out or something?
To be honest I don't think we should be fighting here. There's nothing to argue about. Let's just be friends again.
What I was attempting to do was not argue over what occured, but merely say that it wasn't a big dramatic story. It started as a joke you know, what with the whole book thing, but you seem to be very upset at the suggestion that the whole event may have been nothing more than some online fun little pretend war thing (note that I purposefully put it in a way that would put it in the worst light possible, no need to tell me that "just because it's online doesn't mean the emotions aren't real!" or something like that). Really now, I'm attempting to defend myself and any others who didn't "participate". IT's as though you've secretly harbored ill will towards people who didn't "fight the good fight". I mean, Weltall did all the real work anyway, creating this fine place for us. All the debating likely did nothing. Did you finally convince him to stop deleting links out or something?
To be honest I don't think we should be fighting here. There's nothing to argue about. Let's just be friends again.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)