Without wanting to rekindle old issues and reopen wounds, wisdom, let's be honest here: your reception here by many people, myself included, was a direct reaction to your own attitude, which came across (right or wrong) as superior, arrogant and intransigent. It's not that people were being rude to you for no reason --- although that's no excuse I accept --- but you did attract that treatment through your own unwillingness to listen and discuss, and to just push your own opinion.
Like I say, I'm not looking for round 2, just wanted to set the record straight. Do unto others is, I think, a good axiom to apply to your behaviour in forums like this, and not a bad motto to live your life by, when it comes down to it.
And Yac: that avatar could crush us all! HAIL!
(It's like being visited by God!)