On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:30:24 -0700, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> You write, "Ah," like this is a revelation to you, but you still miss
> the point that there are many cases where a person would wish that they
> never had to deal with person X again, and really wish that the person
> would be dead, because you sure as Hell won't have to deal with them if
> they're dead.

'Dealing' with them also includes going to the slammer if someone else
does the dirty deed for you. (Charles Manson).


> I don't know why you wrote, "Bullshit," when you were agreeing with me
> that persons who intend to kill the person don't typically announce
> beforehand, especially on a public forum, that they wish that the person
> was dead.

Try giving that excuse to the cops. "No, it wasn't me because if I were
planning to kill him, I wouldn't have bragged about it ahead of time."

Despite it not being a bright idea, people do actually make such threats.


> Personally, I do not believe that the Kurtz posts were from that person.

Probably you are in the best position to accurately make that assessment.
I say this despite that you & John both have a lot of old baggage looping
on the carousel of unfulfilled dreams.


> I think it was you that suggested that *I* had contacted
> her/him, and that was not the case.

It was not me. Perhaps I said something that was misconstrued. I'm pretty
sure Steve always speaks the literal truth, but he does have a knack of
pre-loading context with ambivalent statements that increase the
likelyhood of making an errant assumption. (I can say this because I am a
master of this rhetorical tool.)


> Kurtz, and Kuthe for that matter, both fancied themselves some kind of
> hippies, and the aggression in those "Kurtz" posts are not anything that
> I could see him feeling about Kuthe. Nobody is about killing anybody.

I know deep down that nobody (including you) are about killing. As you
may or may not have realized by now, the tensor I use to map between
objective & subjective reality is skewed about the vector of deliberate
death. For legal reasons, I cannot elaborate publicly.

Also, +1 for ignoring the anchovy troll.