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  • #16
    Sheesh... do you guys have ANY conversational style other than "mocking?"
    The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

    I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
      So the smiley means I am negating my own statement? This must be a new rule of internet decorum that I was previously unaware of.

      If you were smart then you would simply slink away from this thread without further comment; if you had integrity then you would admit you just stepped in it in another obsessively desperate attempt to prove me wrong. Although I suspect you'll go with option three which is to heedlessly charge ahead without realizing there's a brick wall right in front of you.
      I'm going with option 4, which is to ask you to clarify what you meant.
      Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.

      MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
      MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

      seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...

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      • #18
        Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
        Sheesh... do you guys have ANY conversational style other than "mocking?"
        Sarcasm tends to be my default mode even in face to face conversations.
        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Ignorant Roy View Post
          I'm going with option 4, which is to ask you to clarify what you meant.
          See carpe's initial response to me. He understood what I was getting at.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
            Sarcasm tends to be my default mode even in face to face conversations.
            We probably wouldn't be friends long. I find that wearing.
            The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

            I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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            • #21
              Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
              We probably wouldn't be friends long. I find that wearing.
              Perhaps.

              I'm also very blunt and have an extremely dry sense of humor to the point that even my wife of 25-years can't always tell when I'm joking.

              You might say I'm an acquired taste.
              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
              Than a fool in the eyes of God


              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                Perhaps.

                I'm also very blunt and have an extremely dry sense of humor to the point that even my wife of 25-years can't always tell when I'm joking.

                You might say I'm an acquired taste.
                The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                  I think I started the MOST popular thread on TWeb...
                  That was Mickiel.


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                  • #24
                    PS, I initially was wondering if this thread might not be better in Nat Sci where you might get a better type of discussion (e.g. something more scientific regarding the way polls and predictions work) than in Civics where it will just turn into what it has, people mocking each other and so on.

                    But I see it is too late.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                      PS, I initially was wondering if this thread might not be better in Nat Sci where you might get a better type of discussion (e.g. something more scientific regarding the way polls and predictions work) than in Civics where it will just turn into what it has, people mocking each other and so on.
                      Yeah, that never happens in Nat Sci.
                      Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                      Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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                      I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                        Yeah, that never happens in Nat Sci.
                        Noooo. Neva.

                        [*Hides peashooter behind back*]

                        I'm always still in trouble again

                        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          Yeah, that never happens in Nat Sci.
                          Not nearly as bad as in civics. Until you get someone like Jorge in there.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            PS, I initially was wondering if this thread might not be better in Nat Sci where you might get a better type of discussion (e.g. something more scientific regarding the way polls and predictions work) than in Civics where it will just turn into what it has, people mocking each other and so on.

                            But I see it is too late.
                            I put it here because I here the claim, "the polls were bad" frequently here, followed by a whole lot of examples that demonstrate the people making the claim do NOT understand polling and associated predictions/probabilities.

                            And yes - it is too late. It pretty much always is. The default exchange mode on this forum for many of its denizens appears to be "mock."
                            The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                            I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                              I put it here because I here the claim, "the polls were bad" frequently here, followed by a whole lot of examples that demonstrate the people making the claim do NOT understand polling and associated predictions/probabilities.

                              And yes - it is too late. It pretty much always is. The default exchange mode on this forum for many of its denizens appears to be "mock."
                              I only mock you when you deserve it.
                              Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                              Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
                              sigpic
                              I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                                I put it here because I here the claim...


                                Awaiting the arrival of the prodder of bovines

                                I'm always still in trouble again

                                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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