Here’s a “yes-or-no” scenario to consider

@bigdogg said
I must admit that my 'forum courage' has taken a hit since I dropped from 2000 down to only 1600.

Luckily there are no masters posting in here. 😌

Try harder to be less of an intellectual pussy and realise that there’s more to life than your silly inflated “chess rating”.

@divegeester said
Try harder to be less of an intellectual pussy and realise that there’s more to life than your silly inflated “chess rating”.

Ah. The liquid courage, it is, then.

And I wasn't serious about the ratings things. Your log-keeping skills are slipping; I have defended you from such barbs in the past.

Maybe you only remember things that you can use against people later.

I pity you. You appear to be suffering.

@sonship said
@The-Gravedigger

I think KJ and SS could forgive God for the original scenario.
But he would have to promise to give them Armageddon tomorrow as payback.

Maybe we haven't conversed much Gravedigger.
Maybe we have under a different tag you may have used. I don't know.

But, I would like to ask you, if you could rephrase this remark t ...[text shortened]... 'll answer for me - sonship, if you do make a little bit more apparent what you are getting at here.

Yes it was a wisecrack.
Just that a lot of devout Christians seem to relish the thought of the earths destruction. And believe that they will be saved and raised up to heaven.

@bigdogg said
Ah. The liquid courage, it is, then.

And I wasn't serious about the ratings things. Your log-keeping skills are slipping; I have defended you from such barbs in the past.

Maybe you only remember things that you can use against people later.

I pity you. You appear to be suffering.

So as well as the jejune Very Rusty chess rating barb, you are now deploying the Very Rusty “you’re drunk” barb AND the Suzianne “log-keeping” snipe.

But hey you (may) “have defended me from such barbs in the past” which gives you licence to use those good-dog-big-dog points now. I see.

And you round of with with more shrapnel from the Very Rusty sand-box with a “I pity you” left jab and Suzianne gaslighting “you appear to be suffering” right hook. Quality banter.

Up your game littledogg 🙂

@bigdogg said

And I wasn't serious about the ratings things.

But this is the really interesting part of your post.

You were only joking, let’s consider that claim.
So you’ve seen other people making these chess rating snipes in the past and felt compelled to “defend” me against them. And yet here, now, you think it’s ok to use the same snipe as a joke of some sort.

Is that correct?

@divegeester said
Well it’s better than being an inconsequential scornful coward.

Actually, it's exactly like that.

@the-gravedigger said
Yes it was a wisecrack.
Just that a lot of devout Christians seem to relish the thought of the earths destruction. And believe that they will be saved and raised up to heaven.

There is nothing to relish, but because I think it is a reality, the warning needs to be said, or what type of person would I be?

@suzianne said
Actually, it's exactly like that.

Oh no it isn’t.

@kellyjay said
There is nothing to relish, but because I think it is a reality, the warning needs to be said, or what type of person would I be?

A hypothetical, if I may. If, say, the more you talked to people about the "Hell" that you believe in, the less credible they found it: what type of person would you be if you kept talking about it?

@kellyjay said
There is nothing to relish, but because I think it is a reality, the warning needs to be said, or what type of person would I be?

If you think eternal suffering is a “reality” for all the billions and billions of non Christians, then why do you spend so much of your spare time in here instead of evangelising in your home town, your own neighbourhood, your own street even?

Surely you don’t really believe it, or why would be in here.