[Magdalen] Right now: Paris.

[Jay Weigel]

Jim O., lay off Don. He has enough problems right now, and IMO can be
excused if his fuse is just a wee bit short and his language is a little
not to your taste. If you don't like it, don't read it. When did you get so
sensitive, anyway?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:05 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don, I wish you could gain some control over your compulsion to use vile
> and offensive language. Especially when you didn't read (understand) what
> was written.
>
> Do you really want to go that route?
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:52 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Roger, once again you are more generous, more irenic, and more given to
> > understatement ("Unfortunately this difference of opinion and consequent
> > misunderstanding has not always been expressed in the most charitable
> > terms")than I have it in me to be.  I hope that you are correct. I
> confess
> > that my own wish was, pardon the vulgarity, that both James and Jim would
> > STFU.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > On 16/11/2015 22:58, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> > > > Why would you think that I'm appalled by Paris means I think everyone
> > > > else are moral idiots?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message----- From: Molly Wolf
> > > > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 12:07 PM
> > > > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Right now: Paris.
> > > >
> > > > So your audience -- that is, the Magdalen pub -- contains moral
> idiots
> > > > inferior to you?  How flattering.
> > > >
> > > > A good homiletic rule is "preach to the people in the pew, not out
> the
> > > > back door."
> > > >
> > > > Gnarliness does not equal superior wisdom.
> > >
> > > I think what we may have here is a misunderstanding that can occur in a
> > > medium such as this.  There has been some interchange between James O-C
> > > and Jim G about how to respond to the events in Paris a few days ago.
> I
> > > believe both gentlemen have been deeply shocked by what happened that
> > > night.  Where they appear to differ is in how general they feel this
> > > revulsion to be, and what one should assume in that regard.
> > > Unfortunately this difference of opinion and consequent
> misunderstanding
> > > has not always been expressed in the most charitable terms.
> > >
> > > On a slightly different tack those events came a little closer to home
> > > today.  I was in a local school where I chair the Governing Body for a
> > > meeting this morning.  While there I heard that a member of staff had
> > > been in Paris with his family to celebrate his mother's 50th birthday.
> > > While the hotel they were in was not attacked there was an alarm and
> > > lock-down so they had to stay in their room for several hours.
> > >
> > > During this time they heard various bangs which they assumed to be
> shots
> > > until eventually the police, bearing machine-guns, entered the room
> > > where they were.  I am not sure of the family's ethnicity but I believe
> > > the skin hue could be seen as Asian or Middle Eastern.  That was not a
> > > good position for them to have been in on what was meant to be a
> > > celebratory weekend.;
> > >
> > > Roger
> >
> >
>