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Albion Wilde: "Lacking in originality as well."

No, but you have been spewing a lot of pompous garbage talk and I merely spit it right back at you.

Albion Wilde: "See if you can form a thought without copying others. Or projecting."

And there's a good example. See if... yourself!

Albion Wilde: "By the way, I’m not a southerner; and not on the “side” of either faction of this conflict.
But that would have required and open mind to have seen, instead of your prejudice and superior attitude."

I've read your posts on this thread and "prejudice and superior attitude" are the very definition of "Albion Wilde".
Pot, meet kettle.

Now I see where you claim a highly superior education at some elite institution, where doubtless you were indoctrinated that there is no sucha thing as "objective truth", only "my truth" or "your truth" and nobody's "truth" is better than anybody else's, right?

So, that's why you are here to convince Union supporters that "our truth" is all nonsense and pro-Confederate "truths" are all just fine & dandy, right?

But in reality, you are just another DiogenesLamp, a self-described Northerner, who years ago sold his very soul to the Lost Cause (and for what??), and over the years it's driven him slowly but certainly insane with hatred for Northerners that he never met & doesn't know a thing about, but somehow believes they are all evil enough to need severe punishment!

Where in the world can such self-loathing come from?
I have no idea, but first learned about it many years ago in relation to some Jews who, it was said, felt guilty for having survived the Holocaust.
All that is utterly incomprehensible to me, but here's what I do know:

DiogenesLamp started this thread using Ayn Rand, of all people, to help justify his own Lost Cause explanations of the Civil War. The responses that followed are all pretty typical of FR CW threads, and many of the posters are familiar from many previous threads.
Some of us are growing weary of seeing the same Lost Cause lies posted over & over, but we are sustained by our faith that the real truth -- not "your truth" or "my truth" -- must eventually win out, if only its most loyal defenders don't abandon it.

Your Big Lie, Albion Wilde, is to claim that anyone on Free Republic "hates the South" or "hates Southerners".
What we hate is lies, self serving lies, and that is what we too often see from defenders of the Lost Cause.

Does that include you? You are not off to a good start here.

You are way, way off base in your guesses about me. It’s sad when a person such as yourself who so desires to be seen as an authority is so threatened by another person’s actual fluency in the English language that he sees some sort of conspiracy.

Again, I’m not a northerner nor a southerner, not a fan nor an admirer of the Democrat Party in any era or region of the United States at any time, not here to refight the CW but to discuss it objectively, and not interested in your emotions.

Learn to debate with civility.

Your Big Lie, Albion Wilde, is to claim that anyone on Free Republic "hates the South" or "hates Southerners". What we hate is lies, self serving lies, and that is what we too often see from defenders of the Lost Cause.

At no point am I the one who engaged in "hate" language on this thread.

Once again, I'm not here to take sides in a past war; I'm interested in its lessons and unintended consequences affecting us today. Not guilty of your outlandish claims.

And really, really not interested in your emotions.