i describe (attack is your interpretation) what i perceive, and if the shoe fits...

i do not attack migeru, i observe and reflect his personal comments on me, or my posts.

i don't know him in person, so i reserve judgement on him.

this is a public forum, and if a blogger here singles me (or anyone) out for derision, he/she opens the door to response in kind.

i'm too lazy to chase up migeru's various attempts to diss me or my posts, but if you enjoy that sort of search, why not try and find examples of when i singled him, or anyone else, out for even mild criticism, let alone derision?

indeed while i have given him ratings sometimes that weren't 4's, you'll find many more times when i did, and sometimes he has given me a 4 too, interestingly enough.

so maybe you can let him defend himself...

now for your criticisms:

I also feel the tenor of all your remarks in this thread is belittling for the blog ("nuts and bolts blog", "reality-based community":

wrong...well, not your feeling, that's your stuff, but your interpretation of what i posted.

it's you who ascribe a negative tenor to those terms!

nuts and bolts is merely the other pole from the kind of lofty abstractions we've been entertaining on a smallish subset of diaries here, and largely it remains a nuts and bolts sort of blog, and i include stats, graphs, factoids etc in that description.

i LOVE that about ET, and would come here much less if it were all about spirituality and the like, so check my words again, and maybe you'll discern my true intention, instead of the warped version you fed back.

reality-based is the same...natch your reality may overlap mine, or not, from the tenor of your remarks, perhaps not, but they will never be identical.

but this blog uses the term, and i have interpreted it as a compliment, perhaps i was misconstrued here too.

You seem to be having a field day with the self-righteous comments, melo.

yup, sometimes i go too far... thanks for sharing, knowing now how you feel, i'll try to take your sensitivities on board in this regard..

psst, if there are many here who feel like afew, and don't want to speak out, but want to hush me up, use the ratings, they're perfect for the job...

or scroll down whenever you see my ramblings.

why are you complaining about others' snide when you practise it so assiduously yourself?

snark good, snide bad...

In particular, (though I'm sorry to hear what you say about your father).

thanks for the compassion about my father, much appreciated.

you are implying that all those here who don't agree with you are "angry and bitter" because deep down they are afraid of death.

you might have meant that's how you perceived my comments, which is also interesting feedback.

it seems to me you have made a jump to your own conclusions, especially with the phrase ' all those here who don't agree with you', which springs entirely from your own imagination.

i cannot control your perception of what i write!

are you trying that shoe on for size?

Death will come to all of us, and we'll see how it comes and how we take it -- and that goes for you too. What kind of arrogance is it that says I am ready, I can face death with equanimity while you other inferior beings will be so scared?

i don't know what you mean here, why not say 'i find you arrogant', if that's what you want to say.

if that's what my post implied for you, so be it...your take, reflected back, well done...

maybe there is a subtext similar to what you imply, but i think you're taking it way further than i did, to make a point, i suppose.

Your comments are infused with this assumption of superiority and are a long (too too long!!!) insult to a large number of members here.

thanks for sharing your feelings, it's a lot better than holding them in.

however, i refuse to believe that you are the voice of defence for 'a large number of members here'.

haha...are they so polite and restrained as to need you to do their job of keeping the blog the way you want it...?

nice try...

Now don't prance aside and say: oh, cool, man, relax, can't you ever laugh! You're not being funny, melo.

but you, my fellow bloggeur, are a riot!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~