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To: soccermom

Why don't you calm down? No need to shriek. Since you asked what I think, I'll tell you: I think it's better to leave the particulars Mel Gibson's life to Mel Gibson. Don't try to pretend that you're doing him some kind of favor by posting your idle speculations about his mental state. You just need something to yap about. So--I leave you to it. Yap away. It's all idle prattle.


37 posted on 07/31/2006 6:45:16 PM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Clara Lou; soccermom
Yet you are here, idle prattle and all.

Come on, cut the insults out. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

39 posted on 07/31/2006 6:56:27 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Clara Lou
"Why don't you calm down? No need to shriek." Excuse me? You're the one who got all hysterical, when all I was doing was trying to do is give Gibson the benefit of the doubt, while others are blasting him as an anti-Semetic drunk. "I think it's better to leave the particulars Mel Gibson's life to Mel Gibson." Sorry, but the "particulars" of his life became part of public discourse, and while others are taking glee in his downfall, I'm trying to explain how it might have come to this. Is it better to sit by allowing others to presume the worst of him, or is it better to offer an educated guess that might explain his behavior? "Don't try to pretend that you're doing him some kind of favor by posting your idle speculations about his mental state. You just need something to yap about. " Don't presume to tell me what my intent is. While others are taking every opportunity to bash the man, as if he had some control over he actions, I am allowing for the possibility that he did not. You, clearly, are very ignorant about mental illness or you wouldn't be reacting to it as if it were a bad thing to admit one is mentally ill. It is an illness -- just like cancer. It is not an attack to question whether one is mentally ill if one does it based on sincere observations and not as an ad hominem attack. I know what it is like to watch a loved one suffer from this illness. If people like you wouldn't stigmatize it, we'd all be much better off.
43 posted on 07/31/2006 10:04:15 PM PDT by soccermom
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To: Clara Lou

Will you STOP?! If you don't like it, you've expressed your offense, now don't you have someone else to harangue?? Why do you hang on and hang on and hang on??
I see soccermom's point and I am interested in this.


65 posted on 08/30/2006 9:37:34 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (kûlia i ka nu`u.)
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