is anyone else growing weary of the personal attacks?

We will all at some time disagree with someone. The key is to not personalize the disagreement. Name-calling, profanity, etc. is no way to discuss/argue your point of view. Everyone here is no doubt a pleasant, easy to deal with person when they are not on the computer. ;)
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"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic..." —Alan Moore

to not respond or "attack" idiots. I hate the blanket lables, and suppositions that people place against us. They don't speak for me, and I try not to speak for others. Newbies come here I think sometimes to just stir up trouble. They make statements against DPers and our support of or against, to name a few, Dr. Paul, the Constitution, the Gold Standard, the FED, etc. Their claims are baseless, and most of the time ignorant. For these people a verbal attack should be the least of their worries. Other times I just feel the need to be a little sarcastic. Nothing personal, it's just my sense of humor. I think debate is good. I don't mind the name calling, as long as it is accompanied with a good response to the issue at hand. I have offered to continue conversations via email on more than one occasion, and have only had one taker. Thank you Hannah. Though we didn't agree on the issue, we agreed that our support of Dr. Paul, and liberty was more important than our disagreement. As a matter of fact, I don't even remember the specifics of the disagreement-had something to do with banking. Anyway,
just my two cents, for what it's worth.

attack on Kevin, most of us agree with you Sunny. Thanks for your positive efforts.

Than
Ants at a picnic
Mosquitoes on a camping trip
Ticks in the woods
Greenheads at the beach
Flies at an Arab meat market.....

The people who are adrift here just need to listen harder to Ron Paul. If you are promoting something here that is divisive, chances are it's because Ron Paul himself doesn't support that position. If people would just stop promoting things that Ron Paul himself doesn't promote, we would be a lot more unified in our goals.

What does Ron Paul support?
- More freedom
- Free Markets
- Less government spending
- Less regulations
- Less taxes
- Banning the Fed
- Sound money
- Getting congressmen and senators elected (the ultimate goal of the CFL)

I have been feeling like DP is DEAD for sometime now. Haven't posted much lately for that and many other reasons; but I too am sick of the attacks, BS and general lack of quality here lately.

Now with that said, I do enjoy the good stuff here and there is some, but lately it is less and less.

!!!Truth is treason in the EMPIRE OF LIES!!!

it would be difficult to tell who the flakes are.

there are some fantastic people on this forum.

then there are a few that are just poor thinkers AND prodigious posters....which is a bad combo. i have most of the screen names memorized that fall at the edges of the spectrum.

when scanning a thread I tend to read the posts by the names I value, and tend to go out of my way to not read the posts by the known seriously misguided miscreants.

usually the first sentence or two of a post is telling.