Well, I can speak from personal experience that you're not mean, nor any more self-deluded than the rest of us. I doubt you're a Gnostic, or at least as a paid-up member, and I've never seen you describe yourself as a skeptic, but then most people are somewhat skeptical without having to make a big self-aggrandizing deal out of it.
I think you're right that when it's not canon, and when it doesn't contradict canon, it's probably just as valid as anything else. (Within certain parameters: there is no canon as to what Buffy was doing on August 8, 1985; however, it seems more in keeping with canon if she were in nursery school that day rather than selling arms to the Iranians.) Pretty much I don't care whether or not someone believes something, I'm just surprised at the vehement conviction that goes along with the belief. Of course, it is ironic that I would make this point with far too much seeming vehemence.
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Hmmmm . . .
Date: 2003-05-10 05:01 pm (UTC)I think you're right that when it's not canon, and when it doesn't contradict canon, it's probably just as valid as anything else. (Within certain parameters: there is no canon as to what Buffy was doing on August 8, 1985; however, it seems more in keeping with canon if she were in nursery school that day rather than selling arms to the Iranians.) Pretty much I don't care whether or not someone believes something, I'm just surprised at the vehement conviction that goes along with the belief. Of course, it is ironic that I would make this point with far too much seeming vehemence.