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[BethAnne]

No doubt the worst of their kind ever with even more impossible complications because only normal people hurt themselves normally and recover from those normal injuries normally.

Which will then lead to boasting about dramatic life changes due to said injuries.

 

[Luce NDs]

There is no end of things for which a person can take pride in. Religion is certainly one such thing.

Most interesting are those who boast that they have nothing to boast about without realizing that they are boasting just the same.

False humility is not the same thing as genuine humility.[/FONT]

One should have pride in something or one will be flat out depressed over their value of virtue ... something said to be nothing ... but you can make something of it ... with a mind that is said to be indeterminate in nature! Thus the Sum Zero Land for Zoro as he tries to entertain the dark Spanish lady ... she could be a mental construct Tous!

 

[BethAnne]

Yes you have - making sure always to include the damage to your solarium - a luxury in a Canadian home. It doesn't take rocket science to grasp that the rest of your place must hence be luxurious as well.

But it does take common sense and reasonable intelligence to not judge that which you know nothing about. If you mean that my home is luxurious because we have a kitchen, basement, bedrooms, living room, and a roof over it all - then, yes, I'm guilty of living in a luxurious house.

 

[Jaebius]

A solarium is not necessarily a luxury item or part of a luxurious home. It's a discretionary item, to be sure, but I've seen $100,000 homes (which is dirt cheap these days, at least where I am) with them and million dollar homes without them. Perhaps some previous owner built it themselves. Perhaps it's an older home that had one built and went cheap for whatever reason.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

You simply cannot judge BA's home or circumstances based on this one item. BA mentions it because people have shown interest in the problems she has had with the contractors, not to rub it in your face.

Who initially mentioned the solarium?

 

[Luce NDs]

Which will then lead to boasting about dramatic life changes due to said injuries.

Whichever way you look at it life appears to be getting more of a pain in the butte and perhaps why I am getting less excited over remaining here and now ... time to move on ... or go on out in the sans ?

Alas John appears to not wish to see me di sap pear ... thus increased sapience about the somnolent bunch ... tis a dark aria ...

 

[Jaebius]

If you mean that my home is luxurious because we have a kitchen, basement, bedrooms, living room, and a roof over it all - then, yes, I'm guilty of living in a luxurious house.

And a solarium. Although, oh poo, it has a leak.

 

[revjohn]

A solarium is not necessarily a luxury item or part of a luxurious home

This coming from a guy boasting about how his floors are the rottenest.

You simply cannot judge BA's home or circumstances based on this one item.

You probably meant to say shouldn't as in "it would not be wise to leap to conclusions" rather than cannot as if it is impossible because now Pr. Jae will start boasting about his impossible leaps of logic that would defy the logic leaping abilities of people who have, for example, studied logic and are constrained by its bounds.

BA mentions it because people have shown interest in the problems she has had with the contractors, not to rub it in your face.

Yeah? Well that's what you think and you can't make the leaps in logic that Pr. Jae makes. They are the greatest leaps in logic ever. He makes it look like logic is a mere child's toy in his hands, if he ever bothered to hold logic in his hands he would be sullied and his hands are the simply not that dirty.

Clearly you haven't been listening to him list all the things that he hasn't and how that makes him better situated to tell others what they are thinking and how offensive it is.

 

[BethAnne]

As I said...Jae you have the problem with jealousy or you wouldn't care what I have or not, and live in or not.

 

[revjohn]

One should have pride in something or one will be flat out depressed over their value of virtue

If the only arm patting you on the back is yours that is no safeguard against depression so much as a recipe for it.

I'm with the UCCAN I know that of which I speak.

Better to put that arm to use doing something more substantial and then there will be no shortage of arms found to pat you on the back.

 

[BethAnne]

LAST

 

[revjohn]

Which will then lead to boasting about dramatic life changes due to said injuries.

It never ends. I fear speaking further about what the future holds for friend Mendalla and his boastful ways lest I put ideas he couldn't have possibly thought of on his own into his head.

 

[Jaebius]

As I said...Jae you have the problem with jealousy or you wouldn't care what I have or not, and live in or not.

Call it jealousy if you will BethAnne, I don't really care. I will always speak against people boasting in their wealth as if possessing stuff, the trinkets of the world, make them better people than those of us who have little. Snobbery is ever-offensive, divides people, and never fosters good community.

 

[Luce NDs]

If the only arm patting you on the back is yours that is no safeguard against depression so much as a recipe for it.

I'm with the UCCAN I know that of which I speak.

Better to put that arm to use doing something more substantial and then there will be no shortage of arms found to pat you on the back.

Wow, John that's quite a decision to come to ... given what you really know about me and my sense of humour about the horrors of the marketplace ... that'd be Hadassah ... if people wished to know anything about ongoing system of metaphors to keep ordinary people out of the loop!

My old minister told me that no one should be cynical ... but then without feedfack ... could we decide on anything ... especially without levity ... derived from light humours from the Levite sorts ... differing from that other trump card ... a different deck?

 

[Mendalla]

Hey, anyone want to play LAST!

 

[Luce NDs]

Hey, anyone want to play LAST!

I only wish to be medi ochre ... like burnt dirt? That's the way out ... Van Go painted Sunflowers in that mode before departing ...

 

[revjohn]

Wow, John that's quite a decision to come to ... given what you really know about me and my sense of humour about the horrors of the marketplace

It is a decision I have come to independent of what I really know about anything other than belonging to a denomination that has an inordinate need to pat themselves on the back.

As you point out I don't know you. You are consistently opaque in your self-revelation. And my comment is not directed at you or your person. I regret that you have taken it that way and I will endeavour to be more clear in the future so that you will know I am not attacking you personally when I am not attacking you personally.

 

[Luce NDs]

How are people in last place to get any support at all ...

 

[Jaebius]

It is a decision I have come to independent of what I really know about anything other than belonging to a denomination that has an inordinate need to pat themselves on the back.

As you point out I don't know you. You are consistently opaque in your self-revelation. And my comment is not directed at you or your person. I regret that you have taken it that way and I will endeavour to be more clear in the future so that you will know I am not attacking you personally when I am not attacking you personally.

And when he is attacking you personally he'll make that quite clear as well.

 

[BethAnne]

Call it jealousy if you will BethAnne, I don't really care. I will always speak against people boasting in their wealth as if possessing stuff, the trinkets of the world, make them better people than those of us who have little. Snobbery is ever-offensive, divides people, and never fosters good community.

So you possess absolutely nothing? And what is your EXACT definition of wealth?

 

[revjohn]

Call it jealousy if you will BethAnne, I don't really care.

No pride in that statement eh? But you're right. You aren't jealous. If you were jealous you'd be thinking that BethAnne had somehow taken the Solarium that you rightly deserve. Which is not the case. It is more accurate, I think, to say that you are envious. You envy BethAnne's good fortune and wish you had some of the same.

Why would I think that?

I will always speak against people boasting in their wealth as if possessing stuff, the trinkets of the world, make them better people than those of us who have little.

Has BethAnne looked down on those of us who do not have Solariums? Not that I can see. It would appear that Mendalla doesn't see it happening either.

The rest is your employment of the we (us)/they (them).

As if you speak on behalf of all people who don't have solariums or that a solarium is something the truly poor cannot have.

Snobbery is ever-offensive, divides people, and never fosters good community.

Agreed. Snobbery is not limited to fiscal means.

Snob

noun
1. a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
2. a person who believes himself or herself an expert or connoisseur in a given field and is condescending toward or
disdainful of those who hold other opinions or have different tastes regarding this field:
a musical snob.

As an irregular contributor to this particular thread and a long-time observer if there is one more prone to condescension and overbearing than yourself I have no clue who they would be.

And if fostering good community is truly a goal of yours how do you plan to accomplish it through this flame war you have launched against BethAnne?