Not much puts me off more than steaming goat pellets of CONDESCENSION.

[bertha katzenengel]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4770088&mesg_id=4770088

Replies number 1, 17 & 24, and 18 & 25.

I'm not perfect, and I don't claim to be. I'm not an educated woman. I'm entitled to my opinion, and for someone to attempt to smack me down in this manner is -- oh, hell, someone please lend me a word. Boorish. Pretentious. Conceited. Come on, there are better words, and I don't know them.

I've been posting to MBs for a long time, and this is the stinkiest pile of my-shit-don't-stink I've ever encountered.

You don't have to agree with me. I hope no one goes there and decides they need to "back me up" - I don't want that.

What I want is to get this out of my system, and putting it here has already helped.

:banghead:

[MrScorpio]

1. It's not like you haven't been warned about going into GD

Now take your spanking like a good girl:

:spank:

[bertha katzenengel]

2. ow - ow - ow - ow

Sigh. You're so right.

:loveya:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. While they could have been more helpful,

it *is* kind of funny that the one thing you decided to pick on was one of Southwell's distinguishing characteristics; and it is in Southwell's style that that essay was written.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. I am learning a lot tonight.

I'm glad I'm learning some things from my pals, too. :hi: Wonder why it's your post and no other that finally spurred me to see who he was.

I found Southwell have something in common: he was an atheist too.

I found a couple of articles to read that he actually DID write; here's one. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~freethought/southwell/aa/apol.htm

It seems he would be right at home in our times: "he founded the Auckland Examiner, a weekly paper that attacked corruption and hypocrisy among local dignitaries, politicians, and missionaries." http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~freethought/southwell/csbio.htm

(I will always regret not having been able to get a formal education when I was young.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I thought you might enjoy his atheist writings

Though toward the end of his life, he did a weird denial of atheism while also maintaining that talking of God or "god things" was dumb.

Talk about your free thinker!

And, hey, you don't need a formal education - you know how to learn. That's all a college education is really about (unless you're going into science or to be a doctor or something specialized like that). I see that if you (personally,you) don't know something, you look it up, and you learn.

You're way ahead of the freepers, even the "kolledge edjucated" onez.

And way ahead of a lot of people in general.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. Rabrrrrrrr, these are among the

sweetest, kindest words I've ever heard. You've done me so much good tonight. :blush: (Even though I still haven't bought one of your paintings!)

Thank you.

time for bed . . . 'night, Rabrrrrrrr . . . 'night, all.

PS in my family, since my sisters and I began to think and so gave up belief in God, we don't even say God. No "oh, my Gods" in our family. No "God dammits." It's Bob. Bob dammit. Oh, my Bob. :7 We're goofy.

[Redstone]

7. Hey, I never went to college either...

should I feel insulted as well?

I had a bit of a hard time following the thread you linked to, as my eyes tend to glaze over when people start talking about "Guns Are The Answer."

Redstone

[Ikonoklast]

8. I love people like that

but they usually have a hard time in the real world knowing that they are so much smarter than everyone else.

[BiggJawn]

9. What I'm trying to come to grips with....

Is how "An important 18th century Artisan radical and writer" authored an article in 2003?

Must be a spry old coot.

I asked for clarification. Maybe the Pseudo-Intellectuals will lay off you and accuse ME of being a mouth-breather now....