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Me:
I'm curious about the "Dr." in your screen name. If you have a doctorate, in what field did you earn it? I don't think this is too personal a question, as you are quite open about displaying the "Dr."

You:
It's my "screen name". When one signs up to post to FR, they choose a sequence of typographical symbols as their "login". Here's the one I chose: Dr. Frank

Hope this helps

It does. You're relatively new in these threads, so I was trying to assess your character. You've been more helpful than you know. Thank you.

You're relatively new in these threads, so I was trying to assess your character.

Because "my character" (as you estimate it from the sequence of typographical symbols which constitutes my screen name) affects whether the sentences I have typed are right or wrong. Understood.

Now I know which fallacy is your favorite, and we both understand each other better. Swell!

It does. You're relatively new in these threads, so I was trying to assess your character. You've been more helpful than you know. Thank you.

As you can see, what you say is not important. How you are "think" is important to these guys. It is so that you may be attacked by Ad Hominem. You notice, PH did not offer to describe his background so as to inform you. It was a one way street. It is evident that people will freely give the information they wish to give and have other information they consider unimportant to the conduct of a political and cultural chat forum. There is even a profile page provided for the individual to give publicly the information she/he desires. Further, the policy on this site is to protect poster privacy ---Don't violate poster privacy.

It is not unusual to be curious about a specific name for instance, "Dr. that got shot in the butt", might provoke the question --- "Did you really get shot?". However, as evident in this case, you have been assessed to be of the wrong "mind". Thus the question about your screen name had an ulterior motive --"I was trying to assess your character."

All this considering that the first question that I could find from PatrickHenry to you is the "Dr." question. The humorous part of the justification for this question was your openness in displaying the "Dr." in your screen name. As I wrote previously, "Illegitimi non carborundum".

You're relatively new in these threads, so I was trying to assess your character.

No what you are looking for is to distract from the issues and attack messengers with ad hominems. You have been guilty of that numerous times and one particular case stands out as a tribute to your dishonest tactics. Why you need to prepare your smears is quite obvious. You know quite well that evolution is false and that you can only defend it with smears at opponents.