On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:41:07 AM UTC-8, Peter Nyikos wrote:
> On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 11:13:30 PM UTC-5, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> > Peter Nyikos <peter2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > [snip good on topic stuff by Peter where he rolls out the red carpet for
> > someone who may never reply to his efforts]
> > >
> > > I'm a bit surprised that none of the left-wing troika [meaning "trio" but
> > > with special connotations]
> > > dominating s.b.p. has sussed you out yet. The senior member [in s.b.p.
> > > experience, not age],
> > > is John Harshman, and the other two are "Oxyaena" and Erik Simpson.
> > >
> > Must you engage in this compulsion?
> It's a sad necessity. Mostly because of shenanigans in talk.origins by
> them and yourself and others, I don't get a chance to post to s.b.p.
> for weeks at a time, and they can be almost as brutal to newcomers to s.b.p.
> as you have been to Glenn for years now.
>
> You never showed interest in sci.bio.paleontology until last year, when
> I was, as usual, hospitable to people from talk.origins here as long as
> the talk.origins robo-moderator was down. Did you witness how Erik Simpson
> ripped into me for being so hospitable as to temporarily treat s.b.p.
> as a "talk.origins in exile," tolerating posts that were off-topic for s.b.p.?
>
> Erik had been perfectly OK with that on all previous occasions -- quite a number
> over the years -- but that one was different: Glenn showed up that time,
> and Erik has been part of a massive character assassination campaign
> against Glenn in talk.origins encompassing the other two troika members, as well as yourself.
> > > "Oxyaena" is a trans "woman" who has ducked questions as to whether he
> > > had any hormonal abnormalities or unusual genetics (XXY, etc.); hence I
> > > decline to use feminine pronouns for him, and that infuriates him.
> > >
> > > I think he would also be infuriated if he saw the rest rooms in one small restaurant
> > > where we stopped on one of our expeditions. The women's room had a big
> > > wooden sign on the door with XX on it, and the men's room had a similar sign but with XY.
> > >
> > Peter, this is hurtful stuff.
> Don't talk to me about "hurtful" until you drop your character assassination
> campaign against Glenn. At one point you even libeled me like a radical
> French Revolution Jacobin for declining to denounce Glenn for a hurtful
> thing he said about you, by claiming that I had endorsed what he wrote.
> Later you tried to make light of the whole thing by saying the libel was a "misunderstanding"
> by "both" of us. The misunderstanding was exclusively on your side,
> in every respect.
> >You and Oxy have a contentious history and I
> > cannot say I am closely familiar with how it has gone over the years,
> Then butt out and let someone who is even moderately familiar
> with what has gone on ["closely" is flattering yourself beyond reason]
> do the talking. Do you know that "Oxyaena" is the "Thrinaxodon"
> whose name lived in infamy for years to the extent that any post
> that so much as mentioned the name was automatically rejected by the talk.origins robo-moderator?
>
> One reason is that Oxyaena, then posting as "Thrinaxodon," attempted to destroy
> sci.bio.paleontology in 2013 and 2014 by massively posting truly insane spam.
> Whether it was he or some accomplice who posted very similar insanity
> under the false name of "Ed Conrad" is purely academic.
> > please stop with such deeply personal biting animosity.
> You are as hypocritical with "please" as John Harshman was with it
> when he wrote last week, on the sci.bio.paleontology thread "Vaccination,"
>
> "Please do not post off-topic threads to sci.bio.paleontology."
>
> This was a thread on which he, himself, had posted off-topic, copiously, and I nailed him on
> his hypocrisy re off-topic posting [a hypocrisy that you are guilty of too] here:
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.bio.paleontology/c/H-SFHyhHp8w/m/ixp2wNr6CgAJ
> Re: Vaccination
> Dec 3, 2021, 3:03:19 PM
> > You did this with
> > the imprimatur of your university below.
> Stop pretending that you are ignorant of what the part "-- standard disclaimer --"
> of my four line virtual .sigs in which I give my university affiliation is all about.
>
>
> Remainder deleted. I can only stand so much hypocrisy and mendacity in one post.
>
>
> Peter Nyikos

Spoken like a true Christian! Merry Christmas, Peter.

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 9:21:37 AM UTC-7, erik simpson wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:41:07 AM UTC-8, Peter Nyikos wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 11:13:30 PM UTC-5, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> > > Peter Nyikos <peter2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > [snip good on topic stuff by Peter where he rolls out the red carpet for
> > > someone who may never reply to his efforts]
> > > >
> > > > I'm a bit surprised that none of the left-wing troika [meaning "trio" but
> > > > with special connotations]
> > > > dominating s.b.p. has sussed you out yet. The senior member [in s.b.p.
> > > > experience, not age],
> > > > is John Harshman, and the other two are "Oxyaena" and Erik Simpson.
> > > >
> > > Must you engage in this compulsion?
> > It's a sad necessity. Mostly because of shenanigans in talk.origins by
> > them and yourself and others, I don't get a chance to post to s.b.p.
> > for weeks at a time, and they can be almost as brutal to newcomers to s.b.p.
> > as you have been to Glenn for years now.
> >
> > You never showed interest in sci.bio.paleontology until last year, when
> > I was, as usual, hospitable to people from talk.origins here as long as
> > the talk.origins robo-moderator was down. Did you witness how Erik Simpson
> > ripped into me for being so hospitable as to temporarily treat s.b.p.
> > as a "talk.origins in exile," tolerating posts that were off-topic for s.b.p.?
> >
> > Erik had been perfectly OK with that on all previous occasions -- quite a number
> > over the years -- but that one was different: Glenn showed up that time,
> > and Erik has been part of a massive character assassination campaign
> > against Glenn in talk.origins encompassing the other two troika members, as well as yourself.
> > > > "Oxyaena" is a trans "woman" who has ducked questions as to whether he
> > > > had any hormonal abnormalities or unusual genetics (XXY, etc.); hence I
> > > > decline to use feminine pronouns for him, and that infuriates him.
> > > >
> > > > I think he would also be infuriated if he saw the rest rooms in one small restaurant
> > > > where we stopped on one of our expeditions. The women's room had a big
> > > > wooden sign on the door with XX on it, and the men's room had a similar sign but with XY.
> > > >
> > > Peter, this is hurtful stuff.
> > Don't talk to me about "hurtful" until you drop your character assassination
> > campaign against Glenn. At one point you even libeled me like a radical
> > French Revolution Jacobin for declining to denounce Glenn for a hurtful
> > thing he said about you, by claiming that I had endorsed what he wrote.
> > Later you tried to make light of the whole thing by saying the libel was a "misunderstanding"
> > by "both" of us. The misunderstanding was exclusively on your side,
> > in every respect.
> > >You and Oxy have a contentious history and I
> > > cannot say I am closely familiar with how it has gone over the years,
> > Then butt out and let someone who is even moderately familiar
> > with what has gone on ["closely" is flattering yourself beyond reason]
> > do the talking. Do you know that "Oxyaena" is the "Thrinaxodon"
> > whose name lived in infamy for years to the extent that any post
> > that so much as mentioned the name was automatically rejected by the talk.origins robo-moderator?
> >
> > One reason is that Oxyaena, then posting as "Thrinaxodon," attempted to destroy
> > sci.bio.paleontology in 2013 and 2014 by massively posting truly insane spam.
> > Whether it was he or some accomplice who posted very similar insanity
> > under the false name of "Ed Conrad" is purely academic.
> > > please stop with such deeply personal biting animosity.
> > You are as hypocritical with "please" as John Harshman was with it
> > when he wrote last week, on the sci.bio.paleontology thread "Vaccination,"
> >
> > "Please do not post off-topic threads to sci.bio.paleontology."
> >
> > This was a thread on which he, himself, had posted off-topic, copiously, and I nailed him on
> > his hypocrisy re off-topic posting [a hypocrisy that you are guilty of too] here:
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/g/sci.bio.paleontology/c/H-SFHyhHp8w/m/ixp2wNr6CgAJ
> > Re: Vaccination
> > Dec 3, 2021, 3:03:19 PM
> > > You did this with
> > > the imprimatur of your university below.
> > Stop pretending that you are ignorant of what the part "-- standard disclaimer --"
> > of my four line virtual .sigs in which I give my university affiliation is all about.
> >
> >
> > Remainder deleted. I can only stand so much hypocrisy and mendacity in one post.
> >
> >
> > Peter Nyikos
> Spoken like a true Christian! Merry Christmas, Peter.

For Christ's sake, put something on, your Highness.

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 12:26:26 PM UTC-5, Glenn wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 9:21:37 AM UTC-7, erik simpson wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:41:07 AM UTC-8, Peter Nyikos wrote:
> > > On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 11:13:30 PM UTC-5, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> > > > Peter Nyikos <peter2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > [snip good on topic stuff by Peter where he rolls out the red carpet for
> > > > someone who may never reply to his efforts]
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm a bit surprised that none of the left-wing troika [meaning "trio" but
> > > > > with special connotations]
> > > > > dominating s.b.p. has sussed you out yet. The senior member [in s.b.p.
> > > > > experience, not age],
> > > > > is John Harshman, and the other two are "Oxyaena" and Erik Simpson.
> > > > >
> > > > Must you engage in this compulsion?
> > > It's a sad necessity. Mostly because of shenanigans in talk.origins by
> > > them and yourself and others, I don't get a chance to post to s.b.p.
> > > for weeks at a time, and they can be almost as brutal to newcomers to s.b.p.
> > > as you have been to Glenn for years now.
> > >
> > > You never showed interest in sci.bio.paleontology until last year, when
> > > I was, as usual, hospitable to people from talk.origins here as long as
> > > the talk.origins robo-moderator was down. Did you witness how Erik Simpson
> > > ripped into me for being so hospitable as to temporarily treat s.b.p.
> > > as a "talk.origins in exile," tolerating posts that were off-topic for s.b.p.?
> > >
> > > Erik had been perfectly OK with that on all previous occasions -- quite a number
> > > over the years -- but that one was different: Glenn showed up that time,
> > > and Erik has been part of a massive character assassination campaign
> > > against Glenn in talk.origins encompassing the other two troika members, as well as yourself.
> > > > > "Oxyaena" is a trans "woman" who has ducked questions as to whether he
> > > > > had any hormonal abnormalities or unusual genetics (XXY, etc.); hence I
> > > > > decline to use feminine pronouns for him, and that infuriates him.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think he would also be infuriated if he saw the rest rooms in one small restaurant
> > > > > where we stopped on one of our expeditions. The women's room had a big
> > > > > wooden sign on the door with XX on it, and the men's room had a similar sign but with XY.
> > > > >
> > > > Peter, this is hurtful stuff.
> > > Don't talk to me about "hurtful" until you drop your character assassination
> > > campaign against Glenn. At one point you even libeled me like a radical
> > > French Revolution Jacobin for declining to denounce Glenn for a hurtful
> > > thing he said about you, by claiming that I had endorsed what he wrote.
> > > Later you tried to make light of the whole thing by saying the libel was a "misunderstanding"
> > > by "both" of us. The misunderstanding was exclusively on your side,
> > > in every respect.
> > > >You and Oxy have a contentious history and I
> > > > cannot say I am closely familiar with how it has gone over the years,
> > > Then butt out and let someone who is even moderately familiar
> > > with what has gone on ["closely" is flattering yourself beyond reason]
> > > do the talking. Do you know that "Oxyaena" is the "Thrinaxodon"
> > > whose name lived in infamy for years to the extent that any post
> > > that so much as mentioned the name was automatically rejected by the talk.origins robo-moderator?
> > >
> > > One reason is that Oxyaena, then posting as "Thrinaxodon," attempted to destroy
> > > sci.bio.paleontology in 2013 and 2014 by massively posting truly insane spam.
> > > Whether it was he or some accomplice who posted very similar insanity
> > > under the false name of "Ed Conrad" is purely academic.
> > > > please stop with such deeply personal biting animosity.
> > > You are as hypocritical with "please" as John Harshman was with it
> > > when he wrote last week, on the sci.bio.paleontology thread "Vaccination,"
> > >
> > > "Please do not post off-topic threads to sci.bio.paleontology."
> > >
> > > This was a thread on which he, himself, had posted off-topic, copiously, and I nailed him on
> > > his hypocrisy re off-topic posting [a hypocrisy that you are guilty of too] here:
> > >
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/sci.bio.paleontology/c/H-SFHyhHp8w/m/ixp2wNr6CgAJ
> > > Re: Vaccination
> > > Dec 3, 2021, 3:03:19 PM
> > > > You did this with
> > > > the imprimatur of your university below.
> > > Stop pretending that you are ignorant of what the part "-- standard disclaimer --"
> > > of my four line virtual .sigs in which I give my university affiliation is all about.
> > >
> > >
> > > Remainder deleted. I can only stand so much hypocrisy and mendacity in one post.
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter Nyikos

The following was meant in sarcasm, but happens
to be literally true:

> > Spoken like a true Christian! Merry Christmas, Peter.

Erik Simpson has typical atheist misconceptions of what Christianity
is all about. Even if he thinks Christianity was distorted by Paul and only the example
and teachings of Jesus count, he may be oblivious to Jesus's railing
against hypocrites in one gospel after another. Also to Jesus's
commandment, spoken to the rich young man: "Do not bear false witness."

> For Christ's sake, put something on, your Highness.

Perhaps Erik thinks all Christianity is encompassed by a
typical heathen misconception of the expression "Turn the other cheek,"
and expects me to turn the other cheek thousands of times
in the wake of mistreatments by himself and those he is in good with,
like Hemidactylus and Oxyaena.

Peter Nyikos