[boatbums]

Is that how you want to be treated if and when you ever get suspended from Free Republic? Talk about someone in the worst possible way, making personal derogatory statements questioning someone’s mental state and faith when they have no ability to respond to you? SHAME on you! The rules STILL apply or have you forgotten? Your hate is on display - hardly an attribute expected of Christ's own.

[narses]

“Talk about someone in the worst possible way,...”

Come now, everyone here knows that quix was a UFO believer. That alone gets him close to the eccentric label. His posting history takes him the rest of the way. And yes, I posted as much to him before he was banned.

“Your hate is on display”

No hate, just honesty. In your case, try a mirror.

[HossB86]

Did you expect anything different from this bunch? I think they need a LONG trip to the confessional.

Hoss

[dangus]

I wrote nothing about him that I didn’t write to him when he was around to respond. But my point in writing about him wasn’t to say anything about his character, but to make a point about the Calvinists who cheered him on whenever he attacked Catholicism, ignoring the fact that his beliefs were, in fact, were so bizarre and conspiratorial as to suggest insanity.

And I told him he was writing like a schizo, and like a true schizo, he didn’t reply to that directly, but went on further insane ramblings about still greater conspiracies.

Seriously:

If you tell most people that they are sounding insane, they typically will scale back their arguments to the core discussion at hand, trying to maintain credibility. Not Quix. If you question why Bede would be referring in England to a long-dead religious belief from the Bering Straits, he’d tell you about how the Sphinx was really white with red polka dots, and how the Smurfs, Santa Claus and Catholicism were a giant conspiracy to make people worship Babylonian Gods!

I’m not exaggerating. I’ve had this conversation with him a few times. (I’m sorta fascinated with the way schizos minds work, and whether they can be reasoned with within their delusions.)

That’s the hallmark of a schizo: Most people care about maintaining credibility. Schizos are desperately looking for that one person who will believe their own personal theories that no-one before has ever figured out.

But again: my concern in writing that isn’t Quix; it’s the Calvinists who congratulated him and egged him on, but then never reigned in his insanity. He filled their purpose, and that was all they cared about.