darth_ender said:
No, you didn't Perhaps it's your style, but I often feel when you write something, you tend to be condescending and belittling.
Just because I don't pepper my posts with apologies and claims I have the utmost respect for your religion, doesn't mean I intend to be condescending or belittling. I am simply calling ducks ducks. Any "belittling" things I have said have been factual weak points I was interested in hearing your response to, but as you said, that was not your intention for this thread, thus I overstepped.
And when you sound snappish ("Oh, you were sarcastic, which means you can't provide a real answer"), it just sounds like you were overly offended by my innocent sarcasm and are resorting to criticism. Perhaps it's just the way you write, but on numerous occasions it feels like a "grumpy grump" response. If I misread you, I apologize.
I am not easily irritated and I am almost always in a good mood, you're reading a lot that isn't there into my posts.
As for "snappish", you were using sarcasm to mock/dismiss the train of thought I presented to you, sarcasm can be great fun when used at relevant times, but it is an extremely immature and really poor way to try to win/dismiss an opposing argument. I wasn't being snappish, I was simply pointing to the immature use of sarcasm.
Discussion between you and I don't get very far, because you have a tendency to bend it around and somehow make it about me. You've done this in the past. You also do it with other posters that voice opposite views from your own without apology or excessive tact, perhaps it is your form of lite "character assassination", by complaining that they have a massive stick up there ass, any pressure is off of you to continue the discussion, and you can walk away feeling like the bright and cheery always positive upstanding poster. Am I reading way too much into your posts and reactions with this assessment? Almost certainly. Obviously I am just being a "grumpy grump".