Reply #36: To be fair, I may or may not have been hasty in my assessment

[Ian David]

I was being pressured to leave the keyboard at home before I could do much research into it. (I did point out in my post that I was doing a "rush job" of sorts). I'm sorry to have left it up to someone else to "do my homework" for me.

But, left with two choices:

1) Let it go and risk the chance of someone getting sucked into a dangerous cult.

2) Be too hasty and possibly slander what might be a legitimate group.

Wrongly or rightly, I chose option #2 since I also figured:

a) If I am wrong, someone will tell me and set the record straight for everyone else. (I am, after all, wrong 1/12 of the time).
b) If I am right, someone could end up castrated waiting for a comet.

I chose to risk making people mad at me and insulting the innocent rather than risk a small part in a group suicide, knowing that the well-informed folks at DU wouldn't be shy about setting the record straight.


Normally, I'm more careful about that sort of thing, but if I didn't leave the computer I risked castration here at home.

I apologize if I insulted anyone.

I'm just glad we all get to go to bed tonight with our testicles intact.