Awesomesauce should think before speaking.

Perhaps I should have started with “One possible explanation would be [previous post].”

On average, I think we all should think before speaking. In this case, I happened to be partially correct; KAZ did reply first and it did take longer for his/her post to go through.

I was just pointing out that there was no apparent foul play involved.

One possible explanation for a post seeming to “butt into line” is that Hemant’s new blog software seems to divert some comments for review before publishing, and perhaps that delayed Kaz’s comment. Why, I don’t know. Then it might have been inserted into the order according to the time he clicked “submit comment.” You can see the “Please note:” just above that button. Even some of my comments get delayed. I don’t think there are any shenanigans here, just quirky software.

Hi all. Richard’s pretty much right.

If you’re a new commenter, I have to “say yes” to your comment. Those comments get placed in a queue until I give the ok. Then they get inserted into the comment thread in the order they were first submitted.

So while it may look like a comment is suddenly inserted in the middle of nowhere when it wasn’t there before, there’s a reason for it.

Sorry for the confusion.

I’ve read the last few comments over and over, but I cannot see what the conflict is. Kaz seems to be speaking only about the original post and the excerpt from the book. He does not appear to me to be addressing anything said by anyone else who is commenting. I also do not see what significance the order of the appearance of his comment vs. Indriel’s has, since the content of Kaz’s comment changes nothing about the apparent meaning of anyone else’s comments.

Mich, the comments seem to be in chronological order. What are you seeing that I am missing?

KAZ, that posting was NOT THERE when I answered Awesomesauce.

I saw this too. I also notice KAZ’s posting reads 1:33 and Indriel’s 2:48. His comments are confusing. Awesomesauce should think before speaking.

My apologies, KAZ. Gee, under the circumstances, I guess I do look pretty paranoid. Oh well, at least in a nice sort of way.

KAZ hit reply before you did, he/she just took longer to type his/her response than you did. You really are starting to sound paranoid. In fact, what KAZ said had nothing to do with you. I’m sorry to see you leave, but I think you have been misunderstanding almost every post you’ve responded to.

From what I’ve seen, nobody has been attacking you or messing with you, and I am confused by your behavior. I doubt that the atheists are out to get you.

You know what guys, I apologize. I can’t stay here if my postings are going to be messed with. But I do want to say a few things:

Larry and Tom, I’m so sorry for your losses and that until, now, I didn’t say anything to acknowledge those losses.

Polly, I’m very sorry about your Mother in Law. You don’t have to agree with my definition of God. I wish I could have explained it better in that other blog but I just don’t know how to do that right now.

Jeff,

The word “love” cannot, thus, be separated from the word “I”; the more deeply rooted the symbol for someone inside you, the greater the love, the brighter the light that remains behind.

That was absolutely beautiful.

Siamang, I’m sorry we got off on the wrong foot. I really did want to make a connection with you. I’m sorry it had to come to this.

And everyone, please forgive me. Obviously, I criticized words that really meant something to you. I didn’t mean to be insensitive but I guess I was. I’m sorry for that too.

Every time someone important to me dies, it accumulates upon the awareness of my own inevitable death, and that no matter what I may tell myself now about how much nicer I’ve made this incredibly unimportant little bit of universe, in fact when I’m gone, nothing will have mattered, at all, from MY now-nonexistent perspective.

And hell, that’s with me being agnostic, and fully aware that there MIGHT be something-or-other beyond observable reality.

Plenty of devout atheists, without even the loophole of “maybe there’s something”, have it even worse.