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To: elhombrelibre

“I did not bully you unless you’re a pansy.”

I said that you tried, not that you succeeded.

Here’s something that someone else posted here:

“I can explain (some alleged contradiction) quite easily. I see it here on FR all the time. Somebody latches onto a simple misinterpretation of a statement because it gives that person the perfect venue to strut and preen in defense of his own ecclesiastical/political/moral existence. Thus has Satan snuck in to the discussion all unnoticed. The saints—I believe it was a hated Jesuit as a matter of fact—have taught us that in a dispute, the disputing parties have a duty to attach the most innocent and least malicious motives and explanations to the other’s statements. It is part of the virtue of charity. It is what anyone would want from you, and it is plain common sense.

Now, there’s a recipe for elevating the level of discourse in the blink of an eye.”


I’m just tired, really tired, of people who can’t disagree without being insulting.

“And really despite the fact that you looked the difference up I don’t think you understand it now.”

We covered it in Surface Warfare Officer School at Phibbase Coronado. And then, there was much wardroom discussion, and many articles. I may have written unclearly in the effort to be jocular, but a person might want to be aware of the assumptions he is making.

“If ISIS loses or grows weaker, they will be even less symmetrical.”

Try to engage your sense of humor and reflect that there is no asymmetry between something and nothing, in the sense that a comparison of two things requires two things to compare.

“I’m thinking there are probably other subject where you have greater knowledge.”

Well, now, that’s mighty neighborly of you.


49 posted on 12/04/2014 12:38:10 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

You don’t understand the concept. Everything else you write is a red herring. It’s not an insult that you don’t understand something. It’s a just a fact. It’s not trying to bully you either.


53 posted on 12/04/2014 10:10:25 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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