bhkad

I've read both of your responses fully. And from what I'm grasping of both of your explinations, is that you want the Book Club to discuss not literature, but be yet another discussion forum for others to air their political stances on current issues...In a more achedemic manner.

I respect that. I honestly do. BUT, what you're wanting is not what the forum was asked to be designed as...

Literature discussion is about discussing what the author is saying through their characters. Of how the person feels reading the book, in regards to their identifying with the different characters of the book itself.

That is in no way 'dawdling' as you put it. Just like songs often speak a personal message to people, so do the characters in a book. And that was what IP, KOS, and myself were discussing about what would make a good book forum.

I wish I could explain it better to you then I have. I'd really love to see you participate in this forum. But from the two posts you've put up here, from what I'm reading from your words, you're more interested in making a political statement then anything else.

And as such, going that route would unintentionally do what Redd was fearing would occure...Of individuals being at odds in opinions on those very subjects, meaning a more then likely a 'you're wrong', 'no you're wrong' type of responding that goes on in the debate forums themselves. That the 'debate' would become personal attacks if opinions differed...

You did this very, very quickly infact.
You quickly went into attack mode, attacking myself or anyone that dare question your thoughts of whether disscussing these political, controversial subjects in literature was what was wanted...Something you can easily already do in the other forums created for such discussions.

Fact is, you don't know at all what my stance is about the war, Islam, or anything else. All you do know is that I'd perfer not to read a book about it, or discuss that book about it. Cause I'm satisfied to discuss the war and politics in forums already designed to discuss such things. But because myself and another said that we'd perfer not to do so, you immediately felt it appropriate to attack assumed beliefs as a defense for your imagined threatened stance on those issues. You decided to take and make it a personal thing, in the form of attack and retaliation response.

This forum wasn't invisioned for making a political stances. It's supposed to be about how one views a book on a personal level. Of how they feel a similarity to the characters within that book and the overall message the author is trying to project through his/her characters. It's about personal truths found in literature and it's characters, of how the individual relates to it on a personal level of conciousness.