Redeeming the American Way

[Eilonnwy]

Thank you Frodo.

No we did not discuss this to death. There was a death of sorts, but no discussion. You rudely demanded I post other peoples articles to save you from having to google anything yourself, so I did with a little bit of chagrin because that is not how I like to debate. Then you snapped back at me, somehow belittling me for not linking the sites, even though you didn't want to google it yourself. I made a claim. You dismissed it. I said "look it up, it's easy to do". You said "I don't have to look it up,". I said "OK, I hate to do it, but here are some articles, all copied and pasted so you don't have to waste your time on the rest of the net. Then you said I had no point because I did not provide links so you could go read the article yourself. But if you wanted to read the articles yourself, you could have typed the topic into your google sidebar... It's a strange argument. I did not see the part where you proved me wrong either. Please do, I enjoy that more than name calling.

Two of the three quotes has the paper in them. The first was Associated Press. The third was NY Times I think, and dated too. Look them up if you think I made them up. Oh, you don't like to look stuff up.

Then you had the petty last word, and closed the discussion. A slight personal overuse of the moderation powers, if you ask me. But then again, no one asked me.

I am only trying to show how you look from over here. Please don't act like you "won" that argument. Arguments are not about winning, they are about learning (first person to try to win loses?). I don't think of this as a competition.

I still stand by the things I said about Obama. I think I have been more than patient with how you decide to treat me. The burden of proof trap certainly doesn't stand here, as we are talking about objective, black and white fact. Either his administration is from 3 think tanks, or it is not. I tried to show it was, because you thought I was just making it up. Hopefully we can figure out where we stand, because I hate to fight, it pains me. But I am a fickle human sometimes, and you offended me.

There. I said it. Can I start apologizing yet?
Thanks,
-Pip

Sigh (I wish I wasn't so mean sometimes...)
-Pip

Why the hell are we discussing the other thread when this has nothing to do with what we were talking about here? I did not rudely demand anything that was unreasonable. I said you need to back up you claims with evidence, and show you work. You refuse to do it, so I don't take you seriously.

You say linking to other articles as if it's a bad thing, in fact it's the opposite. By examining the article and it's sources we can suss out what's true. I can't just take your word for it.

What Luke did, was what I wanted. You were making bold claims, so I wanted sources and references. If you don't want to try to prove what your saying, that's fine, but don't expect people to take you seriously if you make such outrageous claims and don't back anything up.

As far as the thread being locked, I initially over-reacted and locked it because of this:

I don't really want to drag this out, any more that is... But I did what you asked, and posted silly news quotes. If I were you I would go for the jugular and discredit those stories. I would tell me that I am an idiot for believing such tripe. Seriously.

And I felt like I was obliging you, but I talked to Adrian about it and he said he would unlock it, but I guess he didn't. I don't know what happened. It was supposed to be reopened, but shit happens. I was under the impression it was. But now it doesn't matter, we're talking about it here. And I don't think I won the argument, I had nothing to win since you refused to even enter the arena of a real argument.

As I said, I admit I over-reacted, but you're just so annoying when you enter a debate, make bold claims and refuse to back it up, and then grudgingly do so and insult people in the process. ("Only 30 seconds on google", "why don't you dismiss me and call me an idiot?") You have this attitude of wanting to be able to make claims without being criticized. Anytime someone contradicts you, you fucking whine about it like a child, and a lot of us are frankly sick of it.

When you say things like:

I am not gonna read that.

I can only be assured the we can not be 100% certain about the origins of the universe, as we can't about god. I don't want to argue about it, especially if you're version of arguing is posting wiki links. I am tempted to modify a wiki page, and then talk about that subject, knowing you're guys only form of discussion would be to post the link to what I had already written...

You come off as a disingenuous jerk. Adrian takes his time to explain things and provides assisting references and you dismiss it because you just feel like it. I've only dismissed you when you DON'T make posts like this.

I am happy to go point for point with you on various issues, but please provide the basis for where you are coming to your conclusion so I can assess them fro myself and I will do the same. As I've said before, if you make the claim, you have the burden of proof.

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I told you I haven't followed it all. But Pippy isn't talking about 9/11 here or in the Ridge thread. S/he is talking about Obama's cabinet being members of secret societies and suchlike. And as for burden of proof, I am well aware of the situation, but this is a situation in which we can at least imply the negative by showing the unbiased facts and letting Pippy decide for him/herself whether or not to accept the cold, hard truth.

It's cool, I was just really confused at where the thread had turned all of a sudden because it went from 9/11 to conspiracy to about me demanding evidence and I eventually figured out Pippy was still sore about the other thread, because it was locked and I had thought it wasn't.