In Reply to: Everything to do with Bali posted by Camille on Friday, 14. January 2005 at 15:54 Bali Time:
I hope you didn't feel that my comment that it was a bit hard on gay people etc was a criticism of Michelle. That was just my observation about a lot of orthodox religious dogma.
It concerns me that posters, particularly new ones, sometimes get ridiculed, criticised or moralised at, just because their question or statement isn't in agreement with someone else's opinion. Some of them unfortunately don't come back, which is everyone's loss.
Most of us probably do a fair amount of leg-pulling with our friends, but on an internet forum we can't see the grin, the raised eyebrow, the cheeky look, or hear the laugh in the voice. All we can see are cold printed words which can come through as quite hurtful, even though in at least the majority of cases, this would not be the intention of the writer.