How is it that in other arenas of discussion, some of them quite contentious, my comments are received, sometimes accepted, sometimes disputed, and my ability to discuss intelligently and understand those with whom I contend is not in question?
How is it that it is only here in the ALPB forum, dominated by a particular faction in the LCMS or populated by those whose ideological bell dings with Pavlovian predictability when the LCMS gong sends out its D-Flat ding-dong that my ability to hear, speak and understand is considered weak tea?
You guys hate it when I say this but it's true: Over the years I have been in serious, sometimes public discussion with priests, clergy, bishops, archbishops, cardinals and prelates of various faith groups and I have laid out their words for people to read, sometimes with my own analysis of those words.
I have also sat with state legislators, some members of Congress and a couple of Senators in discussion and for publication. Not to mention listening and talking with 15 or 20 town councils, boards of education, zoning boards, police departments and courts. For a while, I had to manage such things in a couple of languages, usually, but not always, with the help of interpreters and translators.
So how is it that only here, in this forum, and particularly with words spread upon these "pages" by Peter, that I seem to be deemed illiterate? Might it by that I am the only one here contending that certain words and concepts are just stupid and stinky?
But we digress. And I tire. Carry on.