If anyone cares to hilite the WHOLE last line of my previous post, a prediction will be revealed.

QED

(August 20, 2018 at 8:39 pm)Aegon Wrote: If you cannot put the complexities of something you understand into simpler terms for others, then you do not really understand it.

I find that you can recognise someone with true expertise of their subject because they are able to describe it in ways that a lay person can understand. This is because the expert has started to see the bigger picture and the underlying cause behind all the details.

Philosophy students seem to come out of university though not being understood by anyone. I just nod and say "That's nice dear".

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: I am a total ignoramus regarding  computer code.  I find what you deem so simple to be completely unintelligible.  I cannot make out what all these equal signs signify...

Bull. Shit. You're going out of your way to screw it up. And you're doing it so consistently that I'm pretty sure that you're doing it on purpose. A normal person would have started trying different things like, I don't know, maybe typing outside of the quote tags, instead of repeating the same mistake over and over again.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: You totally pissed me off, therefore all the spicy insults.  

Your intemperance is not my problem. It is yours.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: Please get off my case and off my person and, attack my treatise; you appear to be smart...

No. This is a discussion forum where matters are discussed. One of the matters arising is your inability to post coherently.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: I am a total ignoramus regarding  computer code.  

I don't care. Why? Because you not only seem incapable of learning, you are actively refusing to do so. Ergo, I have little sympathy for such whining.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: I find what you deem so simple to be completely unintelligible.  I cannot make out what all these equal signs signify...

Jesus fucking christ on a unicycle.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: I do need to take the time to study what other, kinder, members have provided me with regarding your precious quotation procedure.

It isn't my procedure, it is the forums.

(August 21, 2018 at 10:33 am)negatio Wrote: Consider the way I wrote the title of my essay, wherein I quoted Spinoza, there is no way that particular mode of mentioning Spinoza\'s dictum could be  incorrect, and, I did not even know there was a particular way of mentioning quotes required on forums.  I could not have written the title otherwise...Thank you.  Duane C.

I don't care what Spinoza said. It is irrelevant to your formatting of your posts.

What did you think would happen on a discussion forum? Your claims will be robustly challenged, or at least they would if you could get past the enormous hurdle of simple typing that somehow NOBODY ELSE FINDS REMOTELY DIFFICULT. Can you tie your own shoes? Well this is easier than that.

(August 21, 2018 at 9:23 am)negatio Wrote:

(August 21, 2018 at 5:16 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: 1. You are too lazy to learn how the quote function works.

2. You are too lazy to learn how to effectively express yourself.

3. Hell, you are even too lazy to learn what paragraphs are even for.

Given that demonstrable laziness, why, exactly, should anyone here bother to wade through your intentionally obfuscated walls of text?

Since you are too lazy, uneducated, and unreflective to engage in polemic regarding my position, which describes jurisprudential illusion among the American doctors of jurisprudence who mediate our legal system, the very best you can do is set forth a fallacious and imbecilic argumentum ad hominem ungraciously directed against my person.  I am on what you deem to be your forum for just about one day, and, suddenly I am quoting authors absolutely incorrectly; not writing simply enough for simpletons like  you; and not cognizant of paragraphs, when, in fact, my writing methodology consists in discrete fragments.  Now that I am on your forum, I either have to do things precisely your particular way, and, straighten up and fly it right, or, be subjected to senseless insults posited by the ire of a stupid-ass bully !  This is truly throwing one\s pearls before swine...Other persons  on this forum were extremely polite and gracious in their attempt to convert me to what they deem to be requisite proper behavior upon this site --- deeming me to be a fool  in the most kind possible way; but what can your pre-established quotation norms and, simplistic demands to reduce myself to simple simplicity, for the sake of simple simpletons, possibly mean to me, an absolutely absolute reflectively free ontological freedom, able to theoretically overthrow both Deity and Law ! ?  I am not going to jump when a stupid chump like you says "frog", even if I appear, to  your ignorant density, to be just so plain stupid that I am intentionally obfuscating my writing.  I do not obfuscate; what you see as obfuscation is merely your ignorant inability to comprehend slight poetic complexity, readily dissolved via straightforward toughminded study on your part, which you are too infinitely lazy and inherently incapable of accomplishing in any case, foolish fool.

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If we all quote in the same way that negatio does it quickly becomes illegible

It completely fucks up the mobile version of the page too. Truly the most heinous of crimes.

@negatio. In response to your post to Abaddon_ire, which I'm not going to even attempt to quote, fair enough if you're not computer savvy. But for the most part the forum buttons do the hard work for you. May I ask if you're replying on a computer or mobile device? If on a computer... ie using the full 'desktop' site... all you have to do is press the 'Reply' button and click with the mouse to put the cursor below the quoted post that is shown and then start typing. If you're on a mobile device... and thus using the mobile site... then tap on the 'Quote' button at the bottom of a post to reply to it, then tap below the quoted post... ie after the tag that reads . Or if you're trying to write above the post, put the cursor before the opening tag: . This also applies if you're using 'source mode' on the desktop site. If you're just replying to single posts you can't go far wrong with that, but I can understand that it could get confusing if you're doing more than one at a time, but the general rule is quoted content goes between an opening and closing quote tag... and the closing one is the one with the /. So make sure you're not writing content inside a quote tag rather than between it and its closing tag.

OP, you do realise that most people in the world are not American.

Hey negatio,

I will be a little bit kind.

Would my guess that you are using some form of unix platform be correct?

(August 21, 2018 at 11:14 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Hey negatio,

I will be a little bit kind.

Would my guess that you are using some form of unix platform be correct?

You think he's using the Ed text editor?