Personal Questions

[Rev. Powell]

The only way I could kill someone is in self-defense, or maybe defense of another in immediate peril.

[indianasmith]

I was in the military, but my role was decidedly noncombatant in nature.  Still, I trained with weapons and I practiced martial arts for many years.
Could I kill if I had to?  I think so.  Would I?  If they were going to hurt someone I loved, I think I would do it without hesitation.
And need years of therapy afterwards!

[Trevor]

Would you ever kill somebody?
If they were trying to kill me- f**k yes.
Would I go to war and kill someone. Oh hell no. NEVER. Kill someone I don't know because some rich cocksucker hates them? f**k that- YOU go kill 'em!
Unless it was WWII. Nazi's WERE trying to kill us. f**k Nazis. But I wasn't around then- so f**k no.

I grew up during a war: I was disappointed that the war ended in 1980 and I was only 12 so I couldn't join up.

[chefzombie]

Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.

really, b***h? who do you think you're fooling besides the poor fool that's in love with who you pretend to be, despite his devotions elsewhere? shall we talk about some of the things you've said to me too? like calling me a murderer because i chose my own life over a blob of flesh when i was young? or because i chose my own life over a fetus that would have killed me during birth, even as much as i wanted to give my friend a child? or the disgusting insults you threw at me because we are polygamous? YOU CHEAT , and you do it online , you make it obvious. and you get p**sed off when the men you hit on don't respond accordingly.
  THAT  is why you did this to john. you won't win, ellie, trust me on that. i won't let you destroy this haven. and i am a LOT more influential than you are, remember that. you WILL lose this battle. please keep talking about your victimhood, it just shows who you really are.

[Rev. Powell]

Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.

really, b***h? who do you think you're fooling besides the poor fool that's in love with who you pretend to be, despite his devotions elsewhere? shall we talk about some of the things you've said to me too? like calling me a murderer because i chose my own life over a blob of flesh when i was young? or because i chose my own life over a fetus that would have killed me during birth, even as much as i wanted to give my friend a child? or the disgusting insults you threw at me because we are polygamous? YOU CHEAT , and you do it online , you make it obvious. and you get p**sed off when the men you hit on don't respond accordingly.
  THAT  is why you did this to john. you won't win, ellie, trust me on that. i won't let you destroy this haven. and i am a LOT more influential than you are, remember that. you WILL lose this battle. please keep talking about your victimhood, it just shows who you really are.

Please quit. You are fragrantly violating the rules against personal attacks/flame wars. "She started it" is not a defense. PM this s**t if you must. Most of us do not care. A suspension comes next.

ER do not respond.

[ER]

If you had to choose, live poor in a civil rights-enshrining democracy, or be wealthy in a totalitarian society?

I'd say poor and free.

[Alex]

If you are one of the rich ones in a totalitarian state the chances are you can either make the rules, or ignore them. Or both.

[RCMerchant]

Do you have any band shirts?
I have 1 Black Flag, 2 Dead Kennedys, 1 AC/DC, 1 Ramones.

[Alex]

Offhand, got a few Iron Maiden and Motorhead ones, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Sabbat, Rob Zombie, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Alestorm, The Almighty, Tragedy, Machine Head... Doubtless a few other bands I've forgotten about.

[Trevor]

If you are one of the rich ones in a totalitarian state the chances are you can either make the rules, or ignore them. Or both.

Pretty much what is going on in SA right now: the fat cats are getting fatter and we are getting poorer 

[RCMerchant]

I also got a Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein, 3 Charlie Manson's, DeNiro in TAXI DRIVER, A Demon with the words NO LIVES MATTER, and Popeye.
T-shirts.
As far as goverments go- gee- I wanna be in a Nazi state- Go Trump! 

[Alex]

I also got a Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein, 3 Charlie Manson's, DeNiro in TAXI DRIVER, A Demon with the words NO LIVES MATTER, and Popeye.

I refuse to make a list of all my non-band tee shirts. I have a lot.

[RCMerchant]

^ Give it a whirl! 

[Alex]

^ Give it a whirl!  

There ya go (except for the ones I've just finished washing (Sunday is laundry day)).

[RCMerchant]

^ Dam! You got more clothes than I got weeds in my yard! And my yard is all weeds!