Today's trivia question to prepare you for the “Clash of Civilizations”.
Who was Torquemada?
Tomás de Torquemada (1420 - September 16, 1498) was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican, and an Inquisitor General. For his role in the Spanish Inquisition, Torquemada's name has become a byword for cruelty and fanaticism in the service of the Catholic Religion. From From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia @ wikipedia.org
“God help your soul.” was comment made by Anonymous to my last post. I imagine Torquemada was fond of that same phrase. Could we correctly call it a Torquemadish comment?
I deleted part of Anonymous’ comment in the last post. Anonymous accused me of perhaps being one (or more) of 4 different people. One of those people Anonymous named is a teacher in the Knox School System. Then Anonymous wrote: “It's clear that your purpose in life is to destroy the lives others rather than be a positive force in the community. God help your soul. I think it's great that you believe in anonymity. So, you should have no issue with posting my anonymous comments. If you're going to point fingers let's, make sure their [sic] not pointing back at you!”
I think that the above may be a threat! What do my readers think? The comment “God help your soul.” bothers me. It sounds as if Anonymous has decided to embark on a vendetta. Particularly after Anonymous begins naming teachers as the “real” author of this blog, I fear that there may be repercussions directed against some poor teacher in the Knox School that happens to have no idea! BTW: I am not a teacher, I am novelist (not currently working) That is truly alarming. If Anonymous is in a position of power within the school corporation, I fear that some innocent bystander may very well get harmed. I know of no way to prevent that from happening short of just shutting down this blog. I don’t think that would be a good thing to do in a free society.
I would like to repeat what I have said many times already: Tell me where I have written a lie and I will happily correct the record and apologize. I am trying to get the facts straight. When the response to a blog is a veiled threat, I think that more likely than not, this is a response to an unpleasant truth. If it was a falsehood, Anonymous, would tell me where I got the facts wrong, wouldn’t you think?
I deleted part of Anonymous’ comment in the last post. Anonymous accused me of perhaps being one (or more) of 4 different people. One of those people Anonymous named is a teacher in the Knox School System. Then Anonymous wrote: “It's clear that your purpose in life is to destroy the lives others rather than be a positive force in the community. God help your soul. I think it's great that you believe in anonymity. So, you should have no issue with posting my anonymous comments. If you're going to point fingers let's, make sure their [sic] not pointing back at you!”
I think that the above may be a threat! What do my readers think? The comment “God help your soul.” bothers me. It sounds as if Anonymous has decided to embark on a vendetta. Particularly after Anonymous begins naming teachers as the “real” author of this blog, I fear that there may be repercussions directed against some poor teacher in the Knox School that happens to have no idea! BTW: I am not a teacher, I am novelist (not currently working) That is truly alarming. If Anonymous is in a position of power within the school corporation, I fear that some innocent bystander may very well get harmed. I know of no way to prevent that from happening short of just shutting down this blog. I don’t think that would be a good thing to do in a free society.
I would like to repeat what I have said many times already: Tell me where I have written a lie and I will happily correct the record and apologize. I am trying to get the facts straight. When the response to a blog is a veiled threat, I think that more likely than not, this is a response to an unpleasant truth. If it was a falsehood, Anonymous, would tell me where I got the facts wrong, wouldn’t you think?
1 comment:
You have never mentioned that in the past several months not all school board members have been present at a Knox school board meeting. And it will stay that way as one is gone for the next four months.
You would think if they ran for the school board they would at least be at all the meetings.
Where in the world are you Richard Massen?
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