User talk:PollyAdler

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Non tax opinions

Please keep your personal non-tax opinions to the general chat area. Thank you. RoyDaleOne 14:35, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

snarky comments

Hi Polly,

I saw the underhanded putdowns that were made toward you on the thread about healthy foods etc. I hope the comments didn't bring you down. This board has all kinds, and not everyone is kind. I try to handle it by just making sure that I stay positive. I certainly don't always succeed. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that at least one other person (me) noticed the unnecessary stab and that I hope that you didn't take it to heart. JAD 23:48, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Familiarity

Geez, those all caps scattered throughout the posts really do not give me a good feeling. I'm not sure if he's the one you're thinking of, or just a fellow traveler; either way how nice of him to join, post a handful of times, then tell us how things ought to be around here. (I'm leaving out the strange post about watermelons because I have no idea how to classify that!)

Good luck.

Trillium 02:25, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Is there a way out?

To say that the French as a nation may have an addiction to correcting grammar is totally wild, crazy, bizarre and far out. You mean, like the whole country? You think they might have a 12-Step program for it? I know some people who might need help.

Spell Czech

"Compromised by the Psycho-Babble..."

Awesome. Poetic. Almost "Blinded by the Light"...

It's crazy

I did check back, and there were a TON of IP-blocks last night... where the system auto-blocked somebody because they were seen as posting from the same IP as an already -blocked person.

But for that to get mixed up with this weird spoofing thing that they keep thinking they've fixed, and end up blocking a regular... I don't know what things are coming from when Intuit is willing to let all that happen.

Trillium 03:57, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Christian discipline

Polly,

As you of all people should know, some small movements produce only little schitz.

NMexEA 19:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Little Schitz

Dont worry your little Yiddish head about it, Polly. They all show up at your establishment at some time or another,..if they didn't, they wouldn't be Christians!

NMexEA 02:29, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

He hangs with the Sea Monsters Sigmund does

I thought one of your minds might appreciate the suggestion. There is nothing wrong with having a mid-life name change to more appropriately reflect your inner you. Projection is the name of the game.

Fsteincpa 13:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Polly. Thanks for the private note, which explains a good deal. I'm officially no-longer-annoyed. By the way, while I've been doing taxes for about 13 years, for the 25 years before that (and also with much overlap too) I made my living writing fundraising letters for non-profit groups. Liberal groups, all. Environmental, human rights, science, political, a few political candidates (including Hillary Clinton on one occasion). So I'm a fellow liberal and proud of it. (Odd and sad that one should have to be defensive about believing in empiricism and the scientific method, but such is the pernicious environment we live in thanks to the power and influence of the sociopaths, dogmatists, and useful idiots who comprise American Conservatism these days).

I do apologize if my reply to the thread the other day came across as over-harsh or reactive.

Officially Not Annoyed

Hi Polly.

This is my second try at posting this to you. My first effort appears to have simply appended itself to the previous message you'd received. I guess I goofed it up somehow, for which I apologize. Looking at this screen, I can see how I was initially misled: the "Name or topic" box just above is practically invisible. So I didn't see it, didn't put in a title, and maybe that's what caused the problem.

So here's what I wrote before (and you or the original author of the note above can feel free to edit out my words from it):

Thanks for the private note, which explains a good deal. I'm officially no-longer-annoyed. By the way, while I've been doing taxes for about 13 years, for the 25 years before that (and also with much overlap too) I made my living writing fundraising letters for non-profit groups. Liberal groups, all. Environmental, human rights, science, political, a few political candidates (including Hillary Clinton on one occasion). So I'm a fellow liberal and proud of it. (Odd and sad that one should have to be defensive about believing in empiricism and the scientific method, but such is the pernicious environment we live in thanks to the power and influence of the sociopaths, dogmatists, and useful idiots who comprise American Conservatism these days). I do apologize if my reply to the thread the other day came across as over-harsh or reactive.

Brickbats from the Lunatic Fringe

Oh, Polly, you and I have seen so much more of human nature than these accountants ever will. It makes us cynical about human motivations; we are ALWAYS looking for the self-interest behind even the most saintly and unselfish acts. Heck I wouldn't trust Mother Theresa with my wallet, would you?

The biggest difference between our two Oldest Professions and the rest of the world is that we require a broad education to function. We have a pretty good idea that the whole Peter as Rock story is fabricated for a specific purpose, for example; the enhancement of the power of the Bishop of Rome. I don't for an instant believe that God was anywhere in earshot. Wasn't on Mt. Sinai, either, you can bet.

But when we talk that way we scare folks who just "don't want to go there" who are terrified of discovering that the Universe is a cold, impersonal place and their little campfire superstitions are mere fairy-tales. Not to say I'm an atheist; but I know nothing about God or an Afterlife and what's even less forgivable, I know that THEY don't know, either. They just don't like to be reminded of what they know in their hearts is true. They tend to ideology, at least in theory if not practice. We distrust ideology because we know it's always a fraud and usually ends up killing someone.

NMexEA 15:54, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Choice is hard!

So these sheep, which is what they really are, will follow ANY shepherd rather than take responsibility for themselves. Fools! That's slavery if they but knew it!