Re: A highly one-sided Mailing List - Jerry's Challenge list.
Ian Dorion (dorioni@intellinet.com)
Fri, 02 May 1997 16:39:45 -0600
Farrell Till wrote:
>
> I hope any who are bored by the subject of unfairness on Jerry's list, will
> spend the five seconds it takes to hit delete. For the rest of you...
>
> I also ask Till's forgiveness if my reply here is off-topic, but the list is
> slow, so I hope the offense is not great.
>
> TILL
> I have followed the thread, and I understand that some of the confusion
> resulted from Jerry's defense of Izz's signature not having been seen by Izz
> until today. As for Jerry's fairness, I know him personally and have had
> various exchanges with him through written debates, an oral debate, articles
> in both his paper and mine, and I have found him to be fair, much, MUCH
> fairer than any other preacher I have dealt with. Our only problems have
> been bogged-down disagreements over debating rules. This kept a second oral
> debate from materializing because I insisted on the right to make some of
> the major decisions on format and rules. In the disagreement over Bill
> Carrell's intentions, however, I have to disagree with Jerry. I thought
> that Carrell definitely injected sarcasm into his response to Izz. I know
> Carrell through his participation on the errancy list and personal e-mail
> that he and I exchanged, and he is fully capable of sarcasm and insults. As
> I have said many times, however, this doesn't bother me, and I think that
> those who are bothered by it should forget about trying to debate, because
> emotional situations are going to arise in debates where even the most
> even-tempered opponents will lose their patience.
>
> Farrell Till
> Skepticism, Inc.
> jftill@midwest.net
(Ian 5/2) Till, I'm not on Jerry's list because I feel the subject is
too narrow. I don't mind someone's sarcasm either but when only one side
is allowed to be sarcastic, it's time to get the hell out of town - or
off the list.