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[brvheart]

It's not a logical fallacy to call someone a punk, in fact, it's pretty nice compared to calling someone a fucking idiot.

[brvheart]

CaneBrain, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 1:27 PM, said:

yeah, I don't really believe you. That's something Lurbz would do.Also, what's a condensing personal insult? 5 insults in 1?

What other reason would I have? I'm apparently directly attacking, for no reason, a person that I myself, and most people in this thread are actively defending.

[Spademan]

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 12:17 PM, said:

It's not a logical fallacy to call someone a punk, in fact, it's pretty nice compared to calling someone a fucking idiot.

Wow. Notice the "What is actually happening".You're right, it isn't a "logical fallacy", it is a "stupid uneducated opinion".This post nicely resolves why the "fucking idiot" comes into play.

[CaneBrain]

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 3:18 PM, said:

What other reason would I have? I'm apparently directly attacking, for no reason, a person that I myself, and most people in this thread are actively defending.

see now I did it to you. See how it feels.I feel like your "defense" of Fowler is overstated btw.

[Roll the Bones]

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 3:18 PM, said:

What other reason would I have? I'm apparently directly attacking, for no reason, a person that I myself, and most people in this thread are actively defending.

I believe people are calling you out for the comment because it seemed to be more of a slip, or an expression of your true feelings than simply a planned comment. That lead us to believe you actually thought he was in the wrong for his actions or led to your initial true feelings about the kid for doing it. I mean, Spades calls everyone a ****ing idiot so that is different. It's definately not a little "slip" on his part. (haha)

[brvheart]

CaneBrain, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 4:32 PM, said:

see now I did it to you. See how it feels.

Dammit.

[brvheart]

Roll the Bones, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 4:53 PM, said:

I believe people are calling you out for the comment because it seemed to be more of a slip, or an expression of your true feelings than simply a planned comment. That lead us to believe you actually thought he was in the wrong for his actions or led to your initial true feelings about the kid for doing it. I mean, Spades calls everyone a ****ing idiot so that is different. It's definately not a little "slip" on his part. (haha)

That's fine, but I absolutely put it in there not once, but twice for effect. It can't really be a slip if I did it twice.

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Spademan, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 2:36 PM, said:

Wow. Notice the "What is actually happening".You're right, it isn't a "logical fallacy", it is a "stupid uneducated opinion".This post nicely resolves why the "fucking idiot" comes into play.

Well, in my defense, I only read the first box before responding, as I assumed it was just going to be same-old-same-old personal insults. Until this post of yours, I didn't realize how specific that cartoon related to our discussion here. Did you make that yourself? It's almost too specific.

[Spademan]

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 7:57 PM, said:

Well, in my defense, I only read the first box before responding,

That's not really a defense. I mean, first of all it's incredibly lazy, if true. Second, really? Reading half of something while mixing it up with me of all people? The most vicious, virulent asshole on these boards? The ragin' cajun* two-megaton logic bomb? Fail.

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 7:57 PM, said:

as I assumed it was just going to be same-old-same-old personal insults.

Your concern is noted.

brvheart, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 7:57 PM, said:

Until this post of yours, I didn't realize how specific that cartoon related to our discussion here. Did you make that yourself? It's almost too specific.

No. It an old ANONYMOUS thing. So, maybe.*I am in no way cajun. As far as I know.

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Spademan, on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, 11:52 PM, said:

That's not really a defense. I mean, first of all it's incredibly lazy, if true. Second, really? Reading half of something while mixing it up with me of all people? The most vicious, virulent asshole on these boards? The ragin' cajun* two-megaton logic bomb? Fail.

Naw, I like you too much to care about a silly thing like looking stupid.

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No. It an old ANONYMOUS thing. So, maybe.

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[LongLiveYorke]

My two cents:- The government has the obligation to enforce the rights of any person upon their request without questioning their motives for doing so. I have a right to a public education that doesn't attempt to indoctrinate me to a particular religion (this right comes from a combination of the constitution and legal precedence). I'm not sure that anyone has disagreed with this point itt.- Our society is informally based around the idea of protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. So, it is not a valid argument to say that by living in a population of mostly christian people, a person is forced to accept certain rights being removed. (Of course, this person does have to accept any social implications of living in a christian town, such as everyone going to church and talking about god in coffee shops and blah blah, but not in a public school). (Yeah, I haven't really lived in too many christian towns, but I assume they just sit in coffee shops and talk about god a lot).- Moving away from any legal side of things, the individual in question, if he believes in his agnosticism, is doing the right thing. Reciting prayer before public functions isn't a minor thing, even though it may only last moments. Public prayer repeatedly enforces an acceptance of religion, especially among the young. It makes it appear as something that "everyone thinks" and therefore makes it something that many young people would refuse to question. The problem with religions is that so many of them make so little sense when viewed in a vacuum, and only by having them being weaved into society do they become something that people view with flawed standards of skepticism.- Spade is a bit of an a-hole, even if people like HBlask made horrific arguments in this thread.- BHeart isn't a bad guy.- SJ should try to argue sometime instead of "arguing by mega-arguing," which is what I call what he usually does. Or not, it's hist style.

[digitalmonkey]

I long for the day when religion (like masturbation) is legally restricted to one's own home.It's crap like this that makes me want to start a religion where, instead of prayer, practitioners insert a finger into their ass. The hardcore Rectumologists can sniff or taste said finger to signify the ending of the prayer.

[Roll the Bones]

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[Skeleton Jelly]

LongLiveYorke, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 6:31 AM, said:

- SJ should try to argue sometime instead of "arguing by mega-arguing," which is what I call what he usually does. Or not, it's hist style.

I don't know what "mega-arguing" is or "hist style." Although hist style might just be a typo.

[vbnautilus]

Skeleton Jelly, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 8:52 AM, said:

I don't know what "mega-arguing" is or "hist style." Although hist style might just be a typo.

I think he meant meta-arguing. Arguing about the argument.

[Skeleton Jelly]

vbnautilus, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 9:17 AM, said:

I think he meant meta-arguing. Arguing about the argument.

Oh, huh, I should've figured that out. I'm going to claim the "hist style" through me off. Two typos, Yorke?? What the hell, man? What. The. Hell.

[digitalmonkey]

Skeleton Jelly, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 11:29 AM, said:

Oh, huh, I should've figured that out. I'm going to claim the "hist style" through me off. Two typos, Yorke?? What the hell, man? What. The. Hell.

Shouldn't that be 'threw'?

[Skeleton Jelly]

Oh fuck me.

[LongLiveYorke]

Skeleton Jelly, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 11:52 AM, said:

I don't know what "mega-arguing" is or "hist style." Although hist style might just be a typo.

I rather enjoyed these typos. Actually, the second one probably came because a plotting program that I was using when writing has something called "HistStyle," which describes how a histogram should be drawn. Meh.

[LongLiveYorke]

Skeleton Jelly, on Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 1:05 PM, said:

Oh fuck me.

Ha! Sweet vengeance!