Forum Overview :: Tales of the Sword Coast :: Re: QB doesn't care

[quote name="Noi Dau Don"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]It told me two things. One, that religion was just as hostile to free-thinkers in C.S. Lewis' time as it is today. Two, it reflected that weird fantasy among religious types of what it must be like for people who weren't born into the flock to convert.[/quote] Right, well, setting aside your irrational fussy prejudices, it's a splendid manual of middle class faults narrated by a fop almost as grand as yourself. On my bookshelf it sits between Nicomachean Ethics and The Book Of Snobs. Try reading it again and imagine that it's about a fictionalized version of QB (HEH) and all his family. We could talk about religion, I guess, if that's what you're into. I don't think you'd survive any such discussion with me, since you actually <i>like</i> people and want them to be happy. [quote][quote]<font size=-2>I'm much moved by MM's constant rage on the topic of QB. It speaks well of her - all the more fitting to be my lovely bride - but I think she'll be happier when she realizes that anyone who does anything nice for or with QB more than once is literally too stupid to live. Nature is trying her level best to eliminate this threat, MM. Don't interrupt.</font>[/quote] My dear, my motive is exactly what I said it is. My undergraduate degrees are in Bacteriology and Genetics and I know for a fact how easily microorganisms can spread out of control from world travelers who don't take precautions. At first I thought QB was joking about going to Syria to infect some refugees with the drip, but once he put up photographic evidence of the trip he set me off. Besides, after a long day of listening to tales of mind-boggling dumb-fuckery and having to remain poised and professional, it's incredibly fun and cathartic to stomp through QB's moral house of cards like Godzilla.[/quote] You do stomp through it like Godzilla (imaginatively, non-enduringly.) If your intention is to inure him to Tier 1 Scoldings, you're doing a fantastic job. But when it comes to actually changing his behavior you must meet him on his terms (cruelty, well-heeled pettiness, kitty pictures.) I don't understand why you keep putting off our wedding; we are a perfect match. [/quote]