Interesting, but you still seem to have difficulty 'responding to me in 'first' person? And you 'still' drag other persons names into the mix for what reason?

Is it that you don't trust that you are 'authentic' enough to show your true self?

Angust; **But given the reality that wackos do exist and do take dangerous pot shots at people for reasons that cannot be seen as rational, I recognize after your post that expecting others to follow suit with the element of authenticity that is provided by the poster's name in real life is not reasonable.**

Well, whoopee do!

Angust; **Having said that, I can also confess that the need I was acting from when I wondered what respect Skeptic-D has for his own name was to protest his referring to me by a deliberately massaged name. Perhaps I would have appealed better to him had I been more direct.**

Well that would be a good start!

Angust; **I simply hope now that he will not exhibit behaviour as unnecessarily and offensively childish as that again.**

Sour grapes! Or are you that fragile or just a cry baby?

Speaking of 'childish'? Howse about your passive-aggressive approach to attract support using 'third' party inferences to deify your self?

Angust; **That said, I think we all owe Skeptic-D thanks for the thinking he has contributed in his recent posts, even as I think he, as we, would all improve the quality of learning that occurs on the TT if we were, very consciously, to avoid posts that rely upon reading another's mind.**

Thanks for the kudo's, now how do you defend that you seem to be the MOST prolific poster here when it comes to "inferring" what is in other peoples minds?

Angust; **Since I have never found a crossbowman post to include any claims of mind reading "truth", I want to make specifically clear here that I am not casting any aspersions on any of crossbowman's posts.**

Smart move! Crossbowman is without a doubt the most sane, rational, informative poster in recent times.

You missed out on Pope Steven, Brett, and maybe McKinn, and Barbarian isn't to bad, but these were before your time.