"I urge you to read my words and judge them on their own merits, as if written by someone else."

OK, so you want to start a new post fresh, without the baggage of all the previous posts following you around?

OK, granted, you're Joe Blow.

"In the wider world, the overwhelmingly popular belief is ".....

"Another overwhelmingly popular belief is that "....

Uh, Joe. Regular new posters making fresh arguments don't resort to the cheap ad populum.

And, of course most recognize the logical fallacy when it is pointed out to them and refrain from undercutting their positions by resorting to it. You sound suspiciously like a sock-puppet account of.............. Nah, couldn't be.

"Here at GC you will also find".....

Funny, most new posters address each post as if it were its own thing. They don't seem to independently come to the conclusion that these diverse views can be treated as the product of a monolithic THEM. Joe, I hate to say it, but you sound suspiciously like a sockpuppet of Markaba, he's one of the only previous posters out of the hundreds of nons and antis to claim as much. Him and Ethan.

If you really were new, you would allow Joey to not be Baldur to not be......... Nope, you said you had no baggage, so........

"This led me to exit from that endless discussion and recently just state that I think Dissy's analysis is all wrong."

WTF?

You clearly lied. You wanted to be treated as a new poster, but you clearly have some sort of longstanding grudge with Dissident. You claim that we should leave the baggage behind, and then you bring every bit of idiosyncratic personal baggage to the argument.

You've seen many old posters who don't have your particular issues, and you've seen that none of the new ones do, but you still insist that your particular personal quirks represent all those who aren't here.

You can't even fake acting like a newbie when you insist on giving it a try. :)

Dante