The Secret Life of Plants

[Monica]

All the negative comments have been from you and from Diana.

Wow. I'm stunned. No effort is made to point out what we did that was supposedly 'negative', a declaration is made that you are here 'only' to teach us, but not to ever learn from others, and a blanket statement is made that we are totally at fault.

And the irony is, that if either Diana or I make any additional efforts at reaching an understanding, we will likely be accused of being 'brutal' or, at the very least, of 'projecting.'

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Haven't you read why I quoted you? Can you see the CONTEXT of the quote?

You strongly implied that my words were brutal. Do you really expect me to not respond to that?

I actually didn't respond to that... I let it slide. Until more accusations were made, explicitly saying Diana and I are totally at fault.

Was that really necessary?

Incidentally, I actually wasn't even intending to participate at all in this thread. I wanted to let you have your own space, which you seemed to want. But then I was quoted, and negative comments about my posts were made...

Again, if the objective had been to simply discuss plants, then there was no need to make negative comments about other discussions and other people. To do so is to invite response. To then reject and criticize that response, with no effort at understanding, and then add accusations on top of that, isn't fair or reasonable.

To make accusations, then accuse others of derailing or being negative when they respond, is jabbing.