He indeed does not fit the mold. The mold is to keep silent if one of your own is stepping in doo-doo. But you were stepping in his way. He probably would not have commented upon your mode of argument, else. Still, there it is.
This convenient strawman fends off distractions to the charade then fades into the mist.
You must take this as a deep wound, the fending off of a distraction you raise for someone else. The guy's not a team player. But he had already volunteered for the "charade" out of perhaps a genuine spirit of inquiry. I called it a game, but it was more of an experiment.
The "distraction" to which you refer was to blow up on me over the nature of the clues I gave Trib7. I threw him a ringer when I said (paraphrase) "Indeed, some of the dinosaurs seem to have been going warm-blooded," dinosaurs being the wrong lineage of reptiles for mammal ancestry, the right one for birds.
Well, by this time we were already miles deep into the "Cs can't reason the E way" question. I didn't want to just tell Trib my point. I wanted to see if he could produce it himself.
Concerns about giving it away too easily were a bit misplaced, however. In the pages that followed, clue after clue went down. Whenever No-Kin faltered or got self-distracted, I expected someone else to pounce. It was "prime time," after all. But No-Kin struggled on alone.
No, I was pulling for him to get it rather quicker, or for someone else of the C persuasion to have an epiphany. Anyway, we staggered there in small steps, me coming off as a badgering attorney. Not my favorite role.
I'm sorry this is fishy.
Do people conspire against you? Are they laughing behind your back? Are they making false "replicas" to make your case look bad? Are they drawing up complicated plays to run against you?
Have you tried ThorazineTM?
The Ad Hominem again. You are true to form.
But you were stepping in his way. He probably would not have commented upon your mode of argument, else. Still, there it is.
Of one mind are you. I used Junior's puree of his statement to show misrepresentation, not to help No-Kin.
| To: No-Kin-To-Monkeys You don't score anywhere near the points you imagine you're scoring. I'm not imagining anything. The facts stand for themselves. This is not a "game" to me. I don't think FreeRepublic was envisioned as a glorified nintendo. I was not trying to help you either, I was pointing out a misrepresentation which still remains. Whether you like my style or not will not keep me awake at nights. Truth remains. 1883 posted on 3/25/02 3:53 PM Central by AndrewC To: AndrewC I was pointing out a misrepresentation . . . All statements were factual. I could have been doing you. But it was just in a game. 1884 posted on 3/25/02 3:56 PM Central by VadeRetro |