A Final Word from McDonald
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:00:37 -0500 (CDT) (00872067637, 199708200300.WAA11676@cdale3.midwest.net)
TILL
The following posting that I forwarded to the list was bounced back to me
because of the "s" word in my first paragraph. I've altered it, but the
rest is as McDonald sent it to me.
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Farrell Till wrote:
>
> Farrell Till wrote:
> >
> > At 04:00 PM 8/19/97 -0700, jerrydmcdonald@geocities.com wrote:
> > >What do you want to do about our debate on Pauline authorship?
> >
> > TILL
> > Well, I have heard that you unxxxscribed me from your list for two weeks. I
> > sent word back to the source of that information that if I am unxxxscribed
> > for a period of time to allow you to assert your pettiness, then I will be
> > off the list permanently. If you want to debate Pauline authorship, then
> > let's begin it now, not two weeks from now.
> >
>
> McDONALD
> u were the one who wanted off the list. You used language that you
> knew would get you suspended from the list so that you could get taken
> off. Don't whine about it now that you have been suspended.
>
> TILL
> Do you want to know what actually happened? I was tired of your constant
> insinuations that I'm a liar, and I had typed the sentence before I even
> thought that the word "damn" (gasp!) was objectionable to you. I went back
> to change it but decided against it, because that would have been catering
> to your pious pettiness.
>
> McDONALD
> If the debate is to be done on the list you will need to wait until you can
> return. It can also be done privately and put on the website if you
> want to handle it that way. Let me know what you want to do, but you
> will not be allowed to come back to the list for two weeks even for this
> debate. It will be up to you at that time as to whether you stay on or
> not. However, you will have to either break the rules again or
> unsubscribe from the list. Let me know what you want to do.
>
> TILL
> I don't intend to allow the likes of you to dictate to me. Either put me
> back on the list now or I will remain off it, and I will not engage in
> "private" exchanges with you. This isn't necessarily a rule that I am
> adopting just for you. People on the errancy list know that I tell those
> who try to engage me in private exchanges that I will not waste my time on
> them, that the exchanges will have to take place before an audience that
> will justify my time investment or there will be no exchanges.
McDONALD
After your little dishonest trick of getting Michael to forward your
post to the list, you will never get back on as long as I am alive and
in control of the list. Nor will I debate you, publically, or in any
other format. I am through with you for good. I wish now, that I had
listened to Jim Laws several years ago when he tried to get me not to
mess with you. I don't want to ever hear from you or speak to you
again.
Howell had already set up a space on the new site for our debate on
Pauline authorship, but I will now have him remove it because you
certainly will not participate in any debate on either my list or on the
web site.
TILL
This is so... so... well, so Christian of McDonald, and it also gives him a
convenient excuse to keep hiding.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net