Trying To Engage British Methodists On Human Rights

geoffff

Or should I say Clerical Antizionists?



I left this a moment ago on this blog.

G’day Richard Hall,

Will you try please to help me with this horrible on going human rights violation on a massive scale I am trying in our feeble human way to do something about?

I know this is a strange appeal from the other side of the world but I have looked at your blog and thought that in some sort of way you could do something..

http://geofffff.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/taking-on-clerical-antizionism.html

Please help with perhaps one of the great moral dilemmas of our day. The surrender of a whole nation to …

....

The reply?  

You guessed it.

Here it is

geoffff 07.14.12 at 8:52 am

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Forget it, “geoffff”

Update!

1. I'm sorry Richard that you feel that way. I'm an Aussie!
   I know the songs are pretty weak but the game is sufferable.
   
   If you want a serious and informed public discussion on this subject then you are welcome at my blog. In any event I'm about to post this there.

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   geoffffJuly 14, 2012 3:08 AM

   And this
   
   
   Also I forgot to mention I'm a Woody Guthrie fan from way back! There's a point of contact.
   
   Anyway last chance Richard. Do you want a civil discussion on these core moral subjects that has attracted so much of the attention of you and your denomination? Or not?

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And since?

Well nothing really.

Anyway I'm still here if  they want to say something or hear another point of view. I doubt it though. My guess is that these people would prefer to regard these attempts at dialogue as something else.

Further Update!

British Humour!

Dennis Levene 07.14.12 at 12:16 pm

Hope you’ve got Happy Joyous Hanukkah on JMG Records (2007)

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Richard 07.14.12 at 12:34 pm

I’m afraid I don’t.

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Kim 07.14.12 at 1:47 pm

In a fit of pedagogical masochism, I visited geofffff’s — sorry, geofff’s — website, where I discovered a laudatory reference to Melanie Phillips. I guess this is the same Mad Mel who wrote the Islamophilic Londonistan, sensitively likens gay relationships to bestiality, learnedly denies anthropogenic climate change, and lovingly longs to see the back of Rowan Williams. I think we’re at the orc-end of the blogosphere here, folks.

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Richard 07.14.12 at 1:58 pm

I don’t think there’s much to be gained by engaging. Life is too short.

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Kim 07.14.12 at 2:19 pm

That’s what gets me, Richard: some folk come here not to engage but to vandalise the place. Heigh-ho — it’s a pity, really.

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Richard 07.14.12 at 4:56 pm

It is a pity. I’ll talk to anyone, no matter how much I disagree with them, if a measure of civility and goodwill can be assumed. But that would be a very unsafe assumption in this instance.

A measure of civility?

It is a pity.  He would like to engage. 

But I'm an orc . Therefore I might say something rude. 

Last Update 

cross posted Israel Thrives

Richard 07.14.12 at 8:20 pm

Be honest. You gave no indication on your own blog, on “Daphne’s” (so bravely outspoken that she blogs under a pseudonym) or in your comments here that you were looking for a reasoned and civil conversation. If I blog about something you want to talk about, you’ll be welcome and I’ll happily engage.

However, posting off-topic (and sarcastic) comments doesn’t make me well-disposed as a conversation partner. Nor do insulting comments on other blogs.

Ah well 

Here's a question for you Richard that you can leave swinging in the wind on this blog just as you have done on yours.

Why don't the British Methodists use their good offices with the Palestinians to ask them to stop the vile  antisemitic propaganda,  accept the Jewish state, end the "occupation"  , accept "Palestine" and raise their children in peace?