Captain Ochre
March 30th 2003, 04:20 AM
Is the format for the commentary thread acceptable, Dee Dee?
n0rstar appears to be using a canned argument. The whole thing, aside from his introductory comments, smacks of the WTB&TS style and gives me a strong feeling of deja vu. I suspect that nearly all of his first post was directly culled from Watchtower sources with little or no editing of the texts. A C&P job, iow.
n0rstar should be citing his sources if he's copying or closely paraphrasing (ala grade school book report method) Watchtower publications.
Is this the sort of rhetorical style you'd expect in a debate?
"Is Jesus worthy of such obeisance? Most decidedly, yes!"
It's a little bit stilted, isn't it? I could give numerous examples of that rhetorical style from Watchtower publications--perhaps that very one among them.
The proof-texts distributed throughout is also characteristic of Watchtower publications.
Quotation marks appear around n0rstar's final two paragraphs. The last two paragraphs are from a 1950 issue of The Watchtower which is found here:
http://users.eggconnect.net/noddy3/tomany.htm
Feel free to use the link as your reference, n0rstar.
If the C&P job is indicative of n0rstar's familiarity with the topic he's trying to tackle, the spl_cadet will make short work of him in the course of the debate.
I look forward to seeing whether or not n0rstar exhibits an ability to think outside published guidelines in developing his answers.
n0rstar appears to be using a canned argument. The whole thing, aside from his introductory comments, smacks of the WTB&TS style and gives me a strong feeling of deja vu. I suspect that nearly all of his first post was directly culled from Watchtower sources with little or no editing of the texts. A C&P job, iow.
n0rstar should be citing his sources if he's copying or closely paraphrasing (ala grade school book report method) Watchtower publications.
Is this the sort of rhetorical style you'd expect in a debate?
"Is Jesus worthy of such obeisance? Most decidedly, yes!"
It's a little bit stilted, isn't it? I could give numerous examples of that rhetorical style from Watchtower publications--perhaps that very one among them.
The proof-texts distributed throughout is also characteristic of Watchtower publications.
Quotation marks appear around n0rstar's final two paragraphs. The last two paragraphs are from a 1950 issue of The Watchtower which is found here:
http://users.eggconnect.net/noddy3/tomany.htm
Feel free to use the link as your reference, n0rstar.
If the C&P job is indicative of n0rstar's familiarity with the topic he's trying to tackle, the spl_cadet will make short work of him in the course of the debate.
I look forward to seeing whether or not n0rstar exhibits an ability to think outside published guidelines in developing his answers.