I picked up some extra patience tonight at the store and decided to try to wade through some of their drivel.
The past few times I've tried I've only made it through a few posts before leaving in disgust.
It's almost impossible to articulate the level of disgust that builds in me after reading the thoughts of people who are so utterly wed to their notions of reality that they just ...can't...see how completely WRONG they are, much less the way they squirm to avoid the issue when being directly confronted by facts that completely destroy their positions.
Half the time when they are presented with an obvious objective fact that is unfriendly to their collective cause, they ignore it. If prompted vigorously enough, their responses range from childish insults to completely unintelligible babble. In no case do I think that a truly objective observer would grant them the title of victor.
Tonight I managed to wade through a couple dozen posts about gun control. If Mea Culpa and KHBaker post/are regulars on this board, I salute you. Quite a fine job of confronting them with facts and then confronting them with their inability to respond when they fail to.
But the sad thing is, their opinions don't change.
Rabid liberals have a notion of how reality is supposed to be and insist on trying to comform everything to it.
The quite amazing thing about existing with people like this is that I know they're completely nuts, most of you may realise they're completely nuts, but there's no one who can convince them of that.
One of the more consoling aspects of believing in a final day of judgement by a creator is that someday [i]they'll know just how wrong they were.[/i]
I haven't checked out the "freeper land" that they seem to view with the same level of contempt we view them, so I can't yet attest to the level of damage being wrought on us by those who think they're our allies, but my past thankfulness that they don't seem to either know of us or visit this place is gone. Instead I find myself wanting them to come here, debating us somewhere other than their friendly little cove of like thinkers.
That being said, I'm not actually going to tell them about ar15.com and invite them. Nothing worse than being the person whose shoe comes up "dirty" when dog shit can be smelled in the house.