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To: tpaine
Now, hotshot, seeing that 'core positions' have been addressed, tell me again why, if I plan to take bold stances on something (as I often do), that I MUST be prepared not only to defend them but also to discuss them exactly as you demand.

You need not be prepared to discuss them on the terms I demand, but rather to discuss them in the first place. Otherwise you should not expect others to accept your assertions as you pose them, nor should you be surprised when others dismiss them. You cannot make assertions which you refuse to defend or discuss while simultaneously expecting others to follow your word without questions. Since you obviously subscribe to your positions to a degree of strength that you feel comfortable belittling the positions of others who disagree with you, the burden rests squarely upon your shoulders to carry that position of your own during the same debate.

You seem to think that if I'm unwilling to do these things, that I should not be taking positions in the first place.

More or less. Or in the very least, if you are unwilling to do these things, you should not expect others to find truth in your positions, nor have you any grounds to belittle them when they do not. As it stands right now, you take your positions, refuse to defend them, and simultaneously belittle those who do not go along with them as if they have committed an error. Your actions are fundamentally inconsistent with each other rendering much of your behavior irrational.

Are you aware that you are very very sick with some sort of delusion about your own authority?

Why should I be aware of an existence you have not even bothered to substantiate yet?

Also, please answer the questions previously posed to you as you indicated you would do.

166 posted on 07/22/2002 6:03:43 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
No, I think I'll end this. - You're getting repetitive, and boring.

-- You are dismissed.
167 posted on 07/22/2002 6:56:30 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: GOPcapitalist
Also, please answer the questions previously posed to you as you indicated you would do.

He can't and I really feel sorry for the guy.

170 posted on 07/22/2002 7:42:03 PM PDT by Tribune7
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