From: paulholbach@gmx.net
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:55 PM
To: brian@holtz.org
Subject: alt.atheism.moderated

Dear Brian,

Iīm writing to you via email because this is a personal statement of mine:

You wrote:
"You utterly fail to address my point, and instead (re-)invoke an
argument against a claim that I haven't made.  Do you have any
idea how tiresome such behavior is?"

For many weeks Iīve been seriously, matter-of-factly and painstakingly
addressing every single word of your posts, literally scrutinizing every
bracket and offering you a critical but completely rational line of
argumentation and finally an elaborate revised version of it, which takes
several of your points into account (!); and now you really have the
audacity to assert that I "utterly fail to address" your point! Itīs you who
didnīt even deign to utter one single word of appreciation regarding my
summary from August 06 as if it were just an immature childīs pointless
babbling!
By the way, talking about "behavior", itīs your unsportsmanlike Mr big ego,
son of know-it-all kind of conduct that does repel ME!
In your many posts you have shown that youīre a bright man indeed, but your
obstinate and sometimes incomprehensibly antagonistic complacency doesnīt
become your intellectual complexion. You appear as if you were much more
keen on self-opinionatedness than on any reasonable willingness to
compromise! 

You also wrote:
"See, I told you further discussion wasn't useful..."

Would that I had earlier listened to the seer!
Discussing with you was often inspiring and fruitful, but in the face of
your last replies I now prefer to relieve you of your tiredness by declaring
this thread closed on my part. (New thread, new luck? - Weīll see...)

regards
Paul

P.S.: Just to put things right, Iīm no enemy of yours, I just feel somewhat
disappointed.