RIP Amicus

[TxRad]

Since Cloudy is here, I'll use her signature response: I should care what you think because?

You're a drone here. You've only posted one story in the last seven years and that was five years ago and you give absolutely zilch on the forum in either support or help to other authors. All you do is post occasionally on one thread about how your day went.

A lot of hypocrisy going on this thread.

Sorry but this doesn't fly. You have no idea what she had posted here and pulled long before you arrived. In any case, you really don't have any say in who comes here and when.

Things were quiet the days you were gone so go again and give it a rest.

 

[SweetWitch]

Sorry but this doesn't fly. You have no idea what she had posted here and pulled long before you arrived. In any case, you really don't have any say in who comes here and when.

Things were quiet the days you were gone so go again and give it a rest.

Aw, Tex. You're sweet to come to my defense. You shall always be my favorite stalker. However, I find it quite flattering that anyone would take the time to review my stats and research my material. Perhaps the person has a crush.

Still, your response is once again feeding the trolls.

 

[sr71plt]

Sorry but this doesn't fly. You have no idea what she had posted here and pulled long before you arrived. In any case, you really don't have any say in who comes here and when.

Things were quiet the days you were gone so go again and give it a rest.

That doesn't fly either, TxRad. My comment was on recent story posting, and I've been here since 2006--which is before the period I referred to. Whatever she's pulled from here isn't contributing anything here and, as I posted, she hasn't contributed anything for five years--then then only one story in seven years. I've been here ten years.

She's been nothing but nasty to me for years without me commenting to her at all. Which is funny, because I helped launch her publisher by providing nearly half of the publisher's list for the first two years and taking no profit at all from the publisher (and I still have 25 books with that publisher that is helping to underwrite her publishing), so essentially I helped make her publishing possible to begin with--the same publisher, incidentally who Amicus' books caused Amazon to pull all of the publisher's books, including SweetWitch's, until we could get back in with Amazon. I don't remember SweetWitch helping with that either.

She's just backbiting on this thread.

And on her nasty troll comment, I repeat that I'd pulled more than my weight here in author support and she's done zilch.

Further, no, the forum hasn't been any more wonderful during the two weeks I haven't been posting. Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I haven't been reading. I've been busy publishing--including contributing free reads right here on Lit.

 

[TxRad]

Still, your response is once again feeding the trolls.

Yeah I know. Once an asshat, always and asshat.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

No, my friend. Rudeness is not a crime, and it's only an annoyance when we allow the trolls to annoy us. If we rise above, the trolls have no choice but to move off to greener pastures--to other planes where they have a chance to reap the bittersweet harvest of cries of woe.

This thread isn't for such demeaning things. We cannot control the obnoxiousness of others. We can only control our own reactions.

But rudeness is the ultimate crime and should be dealt with swiftly and finally.

The troll we speak of has never annoyed me. I know what he is and why he is. It was peaceful while he was gone. But such is life.

Now, he will have to have the last word about absolutely nothing.

 

[oggbashan]

I used to enjoy some of my exchanges with Amicus until the last few months when he changed.

I know I irritated him but he usually responded well.

 

[colddiesel]

Amicus was an asshole. He is now a dead asshole. It is perhaps some measure of the man that he would have argued that assertion with unrelenting vigour, but would have defended with equal vigour, my right to say it.

He wrote fluently and well, and particularly in his earlier contributions could be highly entertaining. When his conservative observations were based on his own life experience he was worth listening to and made a lot of sense. When his opinions were larded with a pseudo intellectualism they were frequently absurd at best, and occasionally completely ridiculous. His deification of Ayn Rand for example was marked by a religiosity in its zeal - odd in a man who denied the legitimacy of religion.

He frequently bullied and harassed outrageously some of the weaker brethren here, particularly the more liberally inclined. Personally I had little sympathy for them and sometimes cheered him on. Don't get into a fight unless you're prepared to take a few hits. He despised weakness.

Some of Amicus' opponents were excellent. Pure, for example, regularly shredded his arguments completely and effectively. However, that did not stop Amicus, his standard response was to, firstly abuse his tormenter, secondly ignore his tormenter's argument completely, then repeat his own opinions - frequently ad nauseum.

Amicus made the mistake of abusing Dr Mabeuse once too often and the response from the Doc was the most effective demolition job of a poster I have read on Lit in the past 12 years or so. Their subsequent debates were few but much more respectful. A fellow Australian poster made the observation of and to Amicus, that he was the possessor of a first rate brain, which with the benefit of a second rate education he had turned into a third rate mind. This cruel observation held a significant degree of truth, and oddly, there followed a series of pm's (which I later saw) between the two which though initially tense, showed that Amicus could be rational, even reasonable if he chose.

There is no doubt that Amicus deteriorated significantly in recent years apparently due to ill health, but his views towards young and very young women was deplorable at the best, and that is being kind.

As a provocateur and lightning rod for argument Amicus had no equal here. Sometimes right but as often unreasonable, irascible stupid, belligerant and wrong; he generated more debate than any other poster. His early years were his best, the last perhaps best forgotten.

 

[mikey2much]

I never liked him, but I respected him

He had a talent for writing and he expressed his views very well. He was as wrong as wrong can be, but like JBJ and vetteman he was an asshole with a sense of style.

 

[Learin]

RIP

 

[Areala-chan]

I couldn't fathom why the name 'Amicus' sounded so strangely familiar until I started reading one of the linked threads. Then I remembered: "Oh yeah, that guy's the reason I never posted on the forums."

My sympathies to the family he left behind.

 

[SweetWitch]

But rudeness is the ultimate crime and should be dealt with swiftly and finally.

The troll we speak of has never annoyed me. I know what he is and why he is. It was peaceful while he was gone. But such is life.

Now, he will have to have the last word about absolutely nothing.

So let him have the last word. It only counts if you give him credence.

I always gave Amicus credence because he amused me. I shall miss him.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So let him have the last word. It only counts if you give him credence.

I always gave Amicus credence because he amused me. I shall miss him.

I liked him, he was a good guy...he bought my stuff. He will be missed.

 

[LadyVer]

It's sad when members pass on. I would like to say that I will miss him, but I can't. Amicus seemed to thrive on hate. So, I would hope that as we all get closer to our end, we consider how we want to be remembered. I can only imagine how some people are going to remember me. It is hard to change, but it can be done. It isn't easy, though.