Dear
John David,
I apologized for mixing up my thoughts on Myopia in this thread. Common manners and decency says that when someone apologizes, you say thank you, or reject it if you must, but it’s considered bad manners to use another thousand word diatribe to further describe all the ways you think I am inadequate.
Remember you made a joke about being like arguing with my ex a few weeks ago? Mike Cirba jumped in to tell you it was another inappropriate comment by you, but I understood, it was clever and we laughed? Now, it’s no joke. You really are like my ex. It’s the same old crap she pulled and it is simply very unpleasant and demeaning for others around you, although you never seem to care.
Whether I have disagreed, agreed, supported, apologized, joked, or insulted you, the result is exactly the same – a lengthy, point by point rebuttal, which oddly berates me even when I agree with you. It’s clear that you have decided that nothing I do will be acceptable. I have decided that as 2011 dawns, I must get a new start in a David free, or at least David non adjacent world.
I tried to dedicate this weekend to starting over, but you haven’t changed. I guess I am naïve. How many times do people go into relationships of this nature expecting to be able to change the other person, only to be dismayed by the lack of results?
To quote an old Dave Mason song, “There ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy, it’s just you and me and we just disagree.” We just aren’t a good match, and need to part ways for both our sakes.
Don’t worry, David. It’s not you. It’s me. Perhaps, it is a major flaw in my character, but I just can’t deal with the more difficult aspects of your personality, such as your constant need to be right at all costs, refusal to budge an inch, and their kissing cousins, constant arguing, insulting, name calling and use of lengthy and logically questionable arguments solely to avoid ever having to say you are sorry or say you were wrong.
I want you to know that I will always have fond memories of our time together. When some other internet troll chides me, I will imagine his spittle all over his monitor, much like I imagine yours when you become agitated. I will imagine them with your sinister cackle as you type out yet another hate filled, logic adjacent post! If I see an old newspaper, or new logic book, unopened in its original wrapper, I will think of you! If I hear a politician or lawyer parse common phrases and words well beyond their typical meanings to suit their own causes, I will think of you! And I doubt I will ever find another with whom I shall regularly experience “multiple contemporaneous accounts!”
If we should happen to meet by chance in these forums, please do feel free to say hello, even if with your constant companion, Tom MacWood. We can all be civil in limited situations.
I’m trying to let you down gently David, because for all that has gone wrong between us, I do respect you. It’s just time to move on to the next phase of our lives. I wish you well in your future endeavors, except of course, your perversion of trying to sully society maidens, for which I truly hope you will get help.
Yours truly,
Jeff