[Joe Dees] If we cannot situate ourselves somewhere within the spectrum of logical, rational discourse concerning issues we nevertheless feel passionately about (and that emotional component itself should ring a plethora of bells), then we are no more than savage apes, beating our linguistic chests, protecting and defending our memetically infested ideological and personally meaningful and dear symbolic and informational turf, and sadly and blatantly demonstrating our animalistic natures.
[Hermit] False dichotomies, excluded middles? Consider that since 911 the issue of emotional componentry has appeared to many to apply to the majority of your posts. Consider asking Jake to teach you how to slap your forehead. Something certainly appears to need resetting.
[Joe Dees] The tired, jaded game of considering oneself a member of the
cognoscenti if one is in opposition to a generally accepted position, and
considering those who do not agree with you when you unholster
volumes of nonobjective and contrary marginally-sourced-and-accessed
vitriol to be unenlightened and uninformed, is a common net fallacy
easily detectable within the phenomenology of the extremist.
[Hermit] Appeals to the masses? Slurs? Unvalidated assertions? Perhaps you would like to reply to the threads you have left dangling, and support your assertions. Consider the fact that the population of the US comprises only some 5% of the world - what is the "generally accepted position here? To quote yourself, "Denial is not just a river in Egypt."
[Joe Dees] Quantity has never and never will be consonant with quality, or any semblance of veracity.
[Hermit] Agreed, but are you suggesting that A->B also means B->A?Hmmm, should we then ignore all your longer works?
[Hermit] Non sequiturs?
[Joe Dees] Netsearching for those anti and alternative sources that support one, and discarding the bulk of those that don't, does nothing to enhance one's credibility. It is nevertheless less than a scintilla of paranoia and suspicion between the positions exhibited by many of the posters here and the miasma of scatflinger's contemporary right-wing (or left-wing neosocialist - in an ideological circle, they meet at the extreme margins, as demonstrated by Karl Hess, a Nixon speechwriter and tax resister, in his book DEAR AMERICA) neonazi superstitions.
[Hermit] Confusion? Ad Hominem?
[Hermit] How are the mighty fallen.
Regards
Hermit
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