His Divine Shadow (cont)
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
[b]My intention has never been to conflict with anyone, just to decode what Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff and Jeffrey Hirschfield meant in the Divine Shadow episodes. When the thread started I was getting compliments, now everybody’s attacking me for no reason. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/confused.gif[/img][/b]
It is your inability to understand the reasons why you are being “attacked” that lead to the constant frustration you see following your posts. You are not being attacked for your views on HDS. Some people are *disagreeing* with you, which you have always (at least as long as I’ve been posting here) taken as an “attack.” I guess because your modest nature prohibits you from recognizing the fact that others may disagree with you on some level. What others are emotionally reacting to with your posts is your complete and total lack of understanding that you are behaving like an arrogant schmuck. You insult people, their intelligences, their morality, and expect them to just sit back and accept it because you believe yourself to be better than they are. You rail about the offensiveness of some of LEXX’s episodes, yet refuse to see the offensiveness of your own words. It’s frustrating, and some people will point that out in order to cause the scales to fall from your eyes. Unfortunately, your nice wall-of-ego prevents any criticisms to have any constructive effect, and they are just dismissed rather than paid any attention.
quote[quote][b]I don’t mean to say that His Divine Shadow is [i]literally[/i] human, I know he’s an Insect. What I’m saying is that he has human-[i]like[/i] characteristics, and I can see where he’s coming from. He’s like Londo Mollari: some of his actions were evil but he was well-meaning. Or Darth Vader: though influenced by darkness there was always good in him.[/b][/quote]
Again, there is NO evidence to support your view. You can have an unbased belief and an ill-informed opinion all you want, but none of the points you have made to back up your belief that HDS is a sympathetic, human-like character have substance. They won’t stand on their own two legs. Unless, that is, you have some rare, never-before-broadcast footage of HDS saying that he’s acting in the interest of justice, that he’s just “doing what’s right,” or rescuing puppies from being drowned. HDS is a completely inhuman evil, expressed through an anthropomorphized character. If you want to go around believing that he’s actually got some good lurking in there somewhere, then fine. Just don’t ask that others accept it as a well-thought-out idea, because it ain’t.
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[b]F.X. will have to explain to me what “Feh!” means. I don’t speak…whatever the hell she is. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
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Again with the insults (de-fused a bit with a smiley face). You’re a real stand-up guy, DT790. By the way, “Feh!” is a sound of dismissal and frustration, nonverbal, but expressed in the written word thusly. Listen closely, and you can hear it expressed collectively after many of your posts go through.
–Aleck
[This message has been edited by Aleck (edited May 11, 2001).]