Posted by Nepenthe on September 24, 1999 at 16:04:22:
In Reply to: Re: Defending myself posted by Ophi on September 24, 1999 at 12:50:24:
I extrapolate (interpolate?) that if you seem to assume that you can reason from false premises to true conclusions, you're incompetent. If, in fact, you understand that you can't start out assuming the sky is green and get truth, I apologize.
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I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. You only want to play the game if you have a sure thing victory based on tactics you didn't have to work out for yourself?
> Just as well. Don't want to be you in either case.
Finally, agreement on something.
Right. Not an ass, just smug, pompous and unhelpful. Pardon me.
Making an ass of oneself and being an ass are two different things. We've all made asses of our selves from time to time.
> That's what I do for a living. I live on misinformation and spreading rumors. It's what the educational professionals of the US do in their spare time.
I'm not about to get into an argument over that. I'll accept on faith that you can handle logic without demanding some proofs by mathematical induction as evidence. Surely you understand that an argument based on completely incorrect facts, even if logically valid, still arrives at a wrong conclusion.
Your facts are wrong. Very wrong. Not "I called it red but it's a dark pink wrong." We're talking completely wrong. That's all I'm really saying.
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Hrm yeah I'm now helping teaching it.
> I suppose you on the other hand, extrapolated my attitude into my incompetency.
Hope, relies on the faith of having a 'chance'. I don't like chances. Neither do I have faith. I'm sure the rest of the nightgaunt-killed is assured by just that... 'hope'.
> I don't remember saying you were an ass in the first message I posted. It would be appreciated if you can do the same. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. If you wish to instead, use profanity vocabulary, then there's nothing really to talk about.