I have NEVER asked for a thread to be pulled. The threads I am referring to were literally about personal attacks, flaming, following Jim Rob's rules etc. In fact, Jim Rob himself posted at least 1 if not 2 of them. I'll try to find you a link to one of them....
It wasn't my intention to tell you the rules as if you weren't following them or something, sorry to have given you that impression....I was just addressing the trolling part of your comment and that I was trying to get pyx to stay..regardless of how pyx debated.
THis part of my statement "aside from the differences in our opinions and how we decide to handle tham, personal attacks vs respectfully disagreeing/debating"..refers to my stance on debates and that I prefer to handle disagreements differently than pyx.
I have two orders of business regarding FresnoDA. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I beat FresnoDA at his own game. Malicious, hectoring clericalism is the shadow cast on society by his editorials, and as long as this is so, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. I assume that he is unaware of his obligation not to treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification, as this unawareness would be consistent with his prior displays of ignorance. He will probably never understand why he scares me so much. And FresnoDA definitely does scare me: His ideals are scary, his put-downs are scary, and most of all, his shenanigans will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. If he continues to erode constitutional principles that have shaped our society and remain at the core of our freedom and liberty, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. As I noted at the beginning of this letter, FresnoDA's allegations are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition." Funny, that was the same term that his supporters once used to force women to live by restrictive standards not applicable to men. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that FresnoDA's macabre opinions may have serious repercussions, even beyond the issue of fetishism.