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[Blacknight]

Kind of ironic, maybe even hypocritical. Paul Kimball rips into David Biedny in a thread suggesting that David was missed and served a vital role on The Paracast. Soon after, in another thread he chides a poster and closes a thread intended to "elevate" personal attacks (admittedly not the finest idea!) by suggesting ad hominem and personal attacks were inappropriate.

It is peculiar that so many self-described seekers of truth are so fast to censor debate, silence contention and set themselves as designated arbiters of propriety. As I have written to Kiimball in the past, lawyers should be first in line to defend any speech, regardless of wounded sentiments or personal sensitivities. One lawyer to another, I find his quick-censor-trigger-finger unfortunate and Gene's even-quicker-finger just unseemly. Duplicity is only one of the personality quirks which have made paranormalmania so interesting, entertaining and, at its core, such a thoroughly useless bit of fluff. I have observed it as a mildly interested, if completely unconvinced, outsider for decades. And it has never proven a thing, never given rise to a true "star" who could truly lead; in fact, it is one of the few "fields" that has never even found its voice. It devotes an inordinate amount of time and energy in personal battles and turf struggles, rather than defining and driving towards its worthwhile goals (whatever they may be).

 

[Paul Kimball]

Kind of ironic, maybe even hypocritical. Paul Kimball rips into David Biedny in a thread suggesting that David was missed and served a vital role on The Paracast. Soon after, in another thread he chides a poster and closes a thread intended to "elevate" personal attacks (admittedly not the finest idea!) by suggesting ad hominem and personal attacks were inappropriate.

It is peculiar that so many self-described seekers of truth are so fast to censor debate, silence contention and set themselves as designated arbiters of propriety. As I have written to Kiimball in the past, lawyers should be first in line to defend any speech, regardless of wounded sentiments or personal sensitivities. One lawyer to another, I find his quick-censor-trigger-finger unfortunate and Gene's even-quicker-finger just unseemly. Duplicity is only one of the personality quirks which have made paranormalmania so interesting, entertaining and, at its core, such a thoroughly useless bit of fluff. I have observed it as a mildly interested, if completely unconvinced, outsider for decades. And it has never proven a thing, never given rise to a true "star" who could truly lead; in fact, it is one of the few "fields" that has never even found its voice. It devotes an inordinate amount of time and energy in personal battles and turf struggles, rather than defining and driving towards its worthwhile goals (whatever they may be).

And as I try to explain to people like you - and if you really know anything about lawyers, and the law, then I wouldn't have to - freedom of speech is never absolute, particularly on a privately-owned and operated message forum where people are posting anonymously. If you don't like the way the forum is run, you are absolutely free to not participate. Heck, you can even start your own message forum, where you can let everything go to your heart's content.

Good luck with that.

As for Biedny, my response was nothing compared to his carpet-bombing of the Paracast and Gene personally on that idiot podcast run from a trailer park somewhere. I felt a small corrective was needed, because Gene has been too classy to really fight back against Biedny's vindictiveness. If you want to see a hypocrite, and a quitter, and a whiner, then Biedny is your guy. Caveat emptor.

Now, in a move that will no doubt upset you to no end, consider this "thread" closed.