Are you ever suprised by how your discussions turn out?

to answer that.........Discussion is always a discussion. Don't ever give a damn of entertaininng people who is fightin ofr that. Each one of us is entitled to give comments not to criticized because we are not perfect........we are just human being. To those people who love to criticizedthen it's their problem whether to get negative reactions on the topic that discussion. They can comment yes.....bu sometimes they took that personally which mean they are not sports about that. Whatever may come..........as long as you share your comments, ideas and views.........that's it. You did not intend to hurt them anyway. If they got hurt then it is their responsiblity why they were hurt ant it's non of our business. Let them antagonize that's their freedom so far. Just take it as a credit that there is always good and bad. Do we have equal size of fingers.............if so show me and tell me whay?

MyLot is full of surprises and always has been. When I first started, I entered into long debates with people with opposite views to mine, and those same people have become very close friends. I have never been in a heated argument. I have been in long and detailed debates, with opposing views, but they have always been conducted with courtesy and respect. I have come across two men whom I avoid, not because there is no reply to their arguments, but because they are intolerant, offensive and abusive. I simply avoid them. I do not post many discussions, but there again we have surprises. I thought my last two discussions were very good and would draw a number of responses, but they have one and three responses. Some of my older discussions, which I didn't think were very good, keep re-surfacing with more responses. So, yes: surprises. We are all different, and that is good.

Yes once i was misunderstood for being rude when I tool a chance of being sincere in my response to my friend.Well these things could happen here with so many people with so many tastes and from so many countries.

I don't start discussions very often, but when I'd really like theories/opinions on something or some issue,they usually go completely unanswered.I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I'm not going to cheapen my discussion or sensationalize just to get a few meaningless responses.There's def enough of that going on.

Initially, I too run into surprises on my own discussions, and also while viewing other's discussions. However, I am no longer surprise now. From my own oservation, responses to discussions vary depending on the time and day factor, the X factor aside.

Yes,yes.by mistake I called one lady sister, she became very angry with me and asking what relation I have with her.Once in the midst of a heated discussion I told them to cool down , they became angry and asked me are you the boss of myLot.After all it is mere discussion, impersonal, nothing is at stake.sympathetic lot

I have had several discussions I thought would take off but didn't and several I thought wouldn't get any answers and they are the ones I got the most on. Life is funny like that..god likes to keep us guessing I guess. I like the saying you wrote about the planting a seed and not knowing what your going to get. I guess that is like life you plant a little seed every night before bed and you never know what to expect the next day..sometimes you get a curve ball and get one that is beautiful with flowers, but with thorns.

Yess I have done all that you have said here another thing is getting a thorny reply to something you replied to and never thought that would happen

Yeah it is that way in here. I hate the one's that I start that start arguments some of them I wish I had never started really.

Just like real life, and real conversations. have you not ever wanted a conversation to go in one direction and found it completely steared away? Or how about, when you mean one thing, but the other person takes it a whole different way?

oh yes of course. It's like talking to strangers and surprised with their responses. close friends I can guess what their responses are sometimes, but on mylot I found out things a lot of things about friends that draw me closer to them or just make me sick.