From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 12:41:35 MDT
Date sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:54:29 -0600
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: Re:Jobs and Human History
From: "athe nonrex" <athenonrex@godisdead.com>
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>
> a simple illustration (revisited):
>
> [joe dees]
> so ducks, you claim, would live in the sea,simply because they can
> float in different bodies of water? that is utterly perposterous! why
> would they ever live in the sea with such stormy and un-duck-friendly
> conditions? what you are proposing is that all ducks would move to the
> sea because you observe that they indeed can float in different bodies
> of water. well then, show me, for i do not accept this proposal.
>
> [athenonrex]
> well, you don't quite understand, i said, firstly, that they could
> live in the sea, not that they would live in the sea. of course not
> all ducks would move there simply because i think they should, and i
> don't think that they should in the first place. what i am porposing
> is perposterous, simply because you have never seen a duck float in a
> pong or a lake, and also a duck float in a river? or other such
> different bodies of water? that's a fallacious refusal of evidence.
>
> i am not talking about weather, once again, as i have stated before.
> rather i am talking about ducks' bouyancy. it makes little sense to
> argue about weather when i'm talking about ducks, wouldn't you agree?
> or is that perposterous too?
>
> [joe dees]
> but the storms. tell me, if there were much storming somewhere, and
> you could move there simply because you could float in the water that
> was there, would you? highly unlikely...
>
> [this post was a dramatization. no screen names were harmed in the
> making of this post, though some egos may have been. all things are
> true, especially those things that are false, as our actor 'joe dees'
> has just proved. thank you for your attention. we now return you to
> your regularly schedualed programming.]
>
I submit this post for inclusion in the CoV Bad Analogy Hall of Fame;
athe nonex obviously cannot successfully debate the issue
straighforwardly, and is thus reduced to profferring off-tangent
metaphorical attempts.
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