The Last Text - A documentary on the dangers of texting while driving... (Page 9/20)
phonedawgz DEC 30, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by avengador1:


You are trying to say you are a safe driver because you use your bluetooth headset to talk on your phone, when you drive, and yet you admit that you text and drive. Unless you have a hands free way of texting, you ARE using your hands and eyes to send a text message and you ARE a hypocrite and an unsafe driver. Don't you know when to stop digging this hole you are digging?




WOW - You really don't get it. I do not say I am a 'safe driver' or 'unsafe driver' because I don't believe in it.

I have NEVER said I am a 'safe driver'.

- remember - Black and White vs Gray?

phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by avengador1:
That was then, my driving habits have changed since then. Keep blabbling and digging, you are only getting deeper in the hole.




The difference between you and me is I actually tell the truth.

Even more reason my Morals don't come from a dumb a** like you.

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:13 PM
I don't subscribe to the 'holier than thou' attitude. I don't belive Jesus would either.

Jesus was asked what is the most important commandment. I paraphrase but he said "Love God with all your heart and soul and mind and to love OTHERS as you love yourself.

I hate the fact that Christianity has somehow changed it all to something about correctness and judging. I think as Christians if we got back to what Jesus taught we would be much better off.

In my mind Christianity (the Church) has really perveted the teachings of Jesus.

I didn't teach Sunday School to make myself out to be "better than others". I didn't become a Scoutmaster to let the world know I thought I was better than others.

I did it to help the youth.

It should be about LOVE

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Originally posted by lurker:

i cant answer avengador's specific concerns, but the word hypocrite did come to my mind when reading your posts. here's why:

the problem with scout masters and sunday school teachers in this context is that they purport to promote a higher moral standard and level of maturity, which is inconsistent with behaviors that put others around them at risk. since you brought up the sunday school teacher and scoutmaster, it must have seemed relevant to you at the time, but now, you say it's unimportant. so why did you mention it in the first place?
avengador1 DEC 30, 12:14 PM
I also tell the truth, most of the time, so I call someone a dumb ass when they are one or act like one. You qualify, so you get called one.
Today I drive diffently than I did when I first got my license and my driving habits continue to evolve to be safer. You are an unsafe driver waiting to have an accident. You were insinuating that you were a safe driver because of you bluetooth phone usage. You still are a hypocrite for insinuating that, because you admit that you text and drive. Anyone who texts and drives is taking a huge risk. If you don't think you are, that is being ignorant. The bottom line that the OP video is making is that IT CAN WAIT. You don't seem to get that.
I also don't think that Jesus would text and drive if he were around today.

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:16 PM
So you say because I do some things "safe" in your mind and I do others that are 'unsafe' in your mind that I am a hyprocrite?
phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by avengador1:

I also tell the truth, most of the time, .....

Today I drive diffently than I did when I first got my license and my driving habits continue to evolve to be safer.



You said this 4/2009. Since you said I try not to drive more than 5 to 10 MPH over the limit... it must have taken some time for your driving to have evolved down to the speed limit. Lets say 6-9 months from trying to stay at 10 over to being at the speed limit. So you are saying that for all of 2010 you have been driving the speed limit and thus a moral person?


So how long has it been that you have been driving? I had thought you were much older than in your teens or early 20's.

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avengador1 DEC 30, 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by Phonedawgz
As stated before I have a bluetooth headset that I use when I am driving. Much nicer than holding the phone up to your ear. I would never pull over and risk getting hit on the side of the road to take a call. Clearly it is MUCH more dangerous than talking while driving.



So here you are writting about how you are a safer driver because of your use of a bluetooth headset and you also wrote.

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Personally I wear my seat belt almost all the time.


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I do consider both speeding 5 over and texting while driving to be illegal. That is what the law says.


That all makes you sound like a safe driver, but then you write.

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If you try to argue that somehow it's legal because cops don't pull you over then it would also be legal for me to text because now I hold the phone down so cops can't see me text. Neither the fact that the cop doesn't pull me over or holding the phone down low makes my action legal. Yes I break the law.



Holding your phone down to hide it and text, while driving, doesn't sound very safe to me. Your statements contradict themselves making you a hypocrit.

Keep digging, it's your grave.

Edit: To answer your question, I have been driving for almost 36 years now. When I hit 50 years of age I realized I have no need to be in any hurry to get anywhere, unless it is an emergency. The last emergency I had was at the end of 2009 and I drove the speed limit then, so even my emergency rule doesn't apply anymore.

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:31 PM
That's not the definition of hypocrite
lurker DEC 30, 12:32 PM
one more time, and then i'm done with this pissing contest. In My Opinion, it is dangerous, not to mention illegal, to text or post on the internet while driving. no amount of changing the subject or deflection changes that. i hope you don't kill anyone. have a nice day.
phonedawgz DEC 30, 12:33 PM
The definition of hypocrite is someone who says he does one thing but actually does something else.

Like lets say you state that you drive the speed limit and stay in the right lane all the time, but in actuality what you do is drive 5 to 10 or more over the speed limit.

That is what a hyprocrite is.