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Tue Mar-20-07 07:56 AM
Response to Reply #12 |
| 16. There's another wonderful mechanism of "deep thinkers" |
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Anyone who disagrees must be missing the point. How could such intelligent people think that your ideas are sophomoric? If they really understood, they would see the wisdom, right?
Could it be that your ideas really are sophomoric and not just misunderstood?
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| -Here Follows Some Psycho-Metaphysics: |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 02:21 PM |
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Interesting |
yella_dawg |
Mar-19-07 02:41 PM |
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Eh. |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 02:46 PM |
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H.L. Mencken had it pegged a long time ago. |
trotsky |
Mar-19-07 02:50 PM |
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Really? |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 03:04 PM |
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Ah yes, the typical response. |
trotsky |
Mar-19-07 04:05 PM |
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It's not an issue of "not understanding." |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 04:20 PM |
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I'm sorry but that passage IS "just big words meaning nothing." |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 07:42 AM |
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Brevity is the soul of wit |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 08:11 AM |
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I can't help but be verbose. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 08:36 AM |
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I guess that explains why |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 09:45 AM |
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You know, this is a good example of why pathological readings are bad. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 08:35 AM |
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Oh I fully understand the refined and noble approach you're trying to use here. |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 08:44 AM |
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Interestingly, I just wrote on this topic the other day |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 08:56 AM |
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So? |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 09:00 AM |
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How are they being forced? |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:09 AM |
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Let's use a specific example: abortion. |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 09:36 AM |
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Thanks. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:44 AM |
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"A minimally restrictive grid" |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 10:00 AM |
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Yes, you have to force a grid on people for society to function. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:04 AM |
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Yes, but whose grid? |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 10:33 AM |
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Oooga booga booga! |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:44 AM |
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I think you're still missing the point. |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 10:50 AM |
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I'm actually looking at "minimally restrictive" at a societal level. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:57 AM |
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Again, what if "society" includes the unborn? |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 11:02 AM |
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Why do you want to "shove your grid on them?" |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 11:05 AM |
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Because I'm right and they're wrong, of course. |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 11:06 AM |
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On what basis are you right and they're wrong? |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 11:08 AM |
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Majority rule! Reasoned approach! Doesn't really matter. |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 11:30 AM |
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I already have. (n/t) |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 11:59 AM |
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How about Christian Scientists sacrificing sick children to the principle |
BurtWorm |
Mar-20-07 09:05 AM |
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"Valid" isn't really the operative word. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:25 AM |
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"There are now statutes in 44 states which contain a provision stating that a child |
BurtWorm |
Mar-20-07 09:50 AM |
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Yes, conflicting views inevitably collide. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:52 AM |
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And what does a society do to resolve them? |
BurtWorm |
Mar-20-07 10:09 AM |
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I agree that inaction is action. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:14 AM |
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But it's all good. Isn't it? |
BurtWorm |
Mar-20-07 10:19 AM |
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No, it's not all good. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:22 AM |
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"Reality is the original Rorschach." |
BurtWorm |
Mar-20-07 10:59 AM |
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I assume you're differing there, but I'm not sure how. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 11:01 AM |
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Must. resist. urge. to. go. on. anti-PoMo rant.... |
Odin2005 |
Mar-19-07 08:25 PM |
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No, please do. And when you do, make sure you include |
Evoman |
Mar-19-07 10:49 PM |
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What a load of profound-sounding BS. |
Odin2005 |
Mar-19-07 08:23 PM |
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Do you think that we can know objective reality? |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 10:57 PM |
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No, but we can get a reasonable aproximation of objective reality. |
Odin2005 |
Mar-20-07 08:05 AM |
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To a certain extent I agree with that. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 08:16 AM |
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I drew a comic in order to illustrate a point. |
Evoman |
Mar-19-07 11:24 PM |
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Decidedly missing the point. |
kiahzero |
Mar-19-07 11:48 PM |
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Lol...dude, I think I nailed it. |
Evoman |
Mar-19-07 11:51 PM |
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LMAO |
trotsky |
Mar-20-07 07:27 AM |
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No, you really didn't. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 08:06 AM |
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There's another wonderful mechanism of "deep thinkers" |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 07:56 AM |
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We had a similar thread not too long ago |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 09:19 AM |
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Not really. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:28 AM |
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Yep, really |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 09:44 AM |
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Except that he's claiming to have two mutually exclusive belief systems. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 09:46 AM |
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You say all grids are equally true |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 09:57 AM |
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That doesn't preclude value judgments. |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:02 AM |
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A distinction without a difference |
cosmik debris |
Mar-20-07 10:12 AM |
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Hardly. (n/t) |
kiahzero |
Mar-20-07 10:15 AM |
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