--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Nah, one post cannot smother a reasonable discussion. The > > fact of the matter is that you have not been successful in > > persuading people to accept some of your main premises. > > > Godwin's Law = 1 a couple of threads ago.. This thread's history... > It can't be smothered because its already dead, its NOT a reasonable > discussion.
You believe that a discussion of ascribing viewpoints one does not have, of knee-jerk response, of ignoring the reality of what one has said and assuming they are subscribing to a doctring they do not have? This is not a resonable discussion? Or is it that this thread has been infected and matastisized with such an unreasonable practice? > > Thus, there is no discussion on how and why those premises > > are true. Indeed, your postualtes require the dismissal of a > > large body of information; which makes them emperically suspect. > > You are correct here... See Benford's Law of Controversy > "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information > available. " _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
