----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:55 AM Subject: Re: "God Is With Us" L3
> At 12:28 AM 12/18/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote: > >> >> <Lots of stuff about Nariyah> > >> >> > >> >> She didn't see it. It doesn't mean it didn't happen. > >> >> Dave is a good orthodox leftist and an apologist for > >> >> totalitarian dictators, Rob, but I thought better of you. > >> >> > >> >That's what I fail to understand about your rhetoric here. > >> >I don't see Dave apologizing for dictators and I certainly am not > >> >either. > >> > > >> >Some Americans are bad people. Our jails are full of them. Some bad > >> >people make it into the military and do bad things that shame us. I > >> >don't see anything that is in any way unpatriotic about pointing > >> >that > >> >out and sending the bad guys sorry asses to prison. > >> > > >> >We keep our own house clean, do we not? > >> > > >> >xponent > >> >No Monopoly On Goodness Maru > >> >rob > >> > >> Rob, > >> > >> I think that one key reason that you fail to understand Gautam's > >> rhetoric > >> here is that you just made Gautam's point for him. > >> > >> JDG - Gautam 1 Rob 0, Maru > > > >Silly of me to not think of everything in terms of winners and losers, > >eh? > > No Rob. > > What I was pointing out to you, is that your response to Gautam beginning > "what I fail to understand" was probably thought by you to be a rebuttal of > Gautam's point. > > I am going to guess that from Gautam's perspective, and certainly from my > perspective, that that very same post of yours was considered to be prima > facie evidence of precisely the point that Gautam was making. > > You should know better than anyone to not respond to the silly "Maru" > tagline of a post, and look at what was actually being said in the body of > the post. So let me try it again.... one key reason that you fail to > understand Gautam's rhetoric is that you just made Gautam's point for him. > If you are going to try and rebut Gautam's point about leftists, it would > probably be best if you didn't engage in precisely the sort of activity he > is accusing leftists of. I think that you should be able to figure out > the rest of Gautam's rhetoric from there. > That is why my response was in the silly category John. I don't think my argument and Gautam's are the same, but Gautam will respond to that if he is inclined. I'm not going to discuss with someone else what a person on the list thinks. It only serves to muddy the waters IMO. There has been quite a bit of that going on lately (too much I think), and I want to avoid participating in metadiscussions of metadiscussions. xponent Hideous Monsters Of Logic Tour Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
