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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
You jumped in to defend a post about blowing up Israel. It is as simple as that. I made a point to say that shows where you stand. And the reason I did that was to call you out; you either stand for blowing up Israel or have some other opinion. How is what I did surprising?
I could care less if you posted positively or negatively about any group (Muslim or anyone else), you were somehow supportive of blowing up Israel. At least that is what the post made it seem like. And who cares if you are atheist? That point has nothing to do with blowing up Israel.
What attitude do I have? You defended someone who wished Israel would be blown up. I brought it up. You have the chance to clear the air. You have the attitude it seems. You instantly threw the 'criticize Israel and you will be attacked' card. And you defended Mikey because someone was 'going' to call you a name? Sheesh, that makes little sense.
It would be nice to actually have a debate about Israeli policy without the crazy rhetoric that some people throw out around here. And you basically are doing the same thing.
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I never said it made sense; I might be proficient at various sorts of formal and informal logic in an academic setting but sure, I will admit to making little sense a lot of the time. Plus, not an excuse at all, but I am drunk most of the time I post here. Anyway, I really do not know why I even said anything, let alone in response to that, as I explained I took it as far from literal and more an exasperated exclamation than anything; I have numerous times said things like, oh, I just wish someone would level Mecca and Rome and get it over with. I have never meant that I literally wanted someone to bomb Mecca or Rome the next day, I just said it because I was pissed off with religion and what I perceived to be the social ills it caused.
We may have had a reasonable, crazy rhetoric-free discussion in that other thread a while back had I responded to your post, but I did not, simply because I feel I have wasted way too much of my life arguing (sometimes reasonably, most of the time unreasonably) about the whole deal. So why say anything in the first place? Cannot tell you why, I guess I am just incapable of keeping my mouth shut.
Right, here it goes, my semi-final say on the matter, I do not support nuking Israel, I am not an anti-semite. I am, however, devoid of sense on occasion, and do not think things through when I probably should. That's about it.