Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 05:32:05 GMT
Message-ID: <pnU9g.4181$S7.145_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
Roy Hann wrote:
> "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote
>> Roy Hann wrote: >>> "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote >>> >>> I admit I don't understand why I feel moved to rebut an ad hominem (and >>> wholly irrelevant) attack on someone else, but here goes anyway. >> AH attack on who exactly?
>
> Oh dear, we can't even agree we're talking about Fabian Pascal? I can see
> this is going to be a real short conversation.
OK - IMO your original thrust was so tenuous I presumed it could well have been associating GW as the unfortunate. And short is good!
>> Does mentioning someone by name qualify a post as AH these days?
> Well I sure didn't see any abstract truth being attacked, so what else is
> it?
Hmmm - not white, must be black! You are being simplistic, lazy perhaps, or are just a religious acolyte. Were the analyses I mentioned likely to be true(ish) - well yes, you confirmed them in your own post with the "duh" analysis.
>>>> i.e. the antithesis of his tormentors, and further that he is also >>>> "boastful" given his preparedness to operate dbdebunk. >>> So everyone who is moved to operate a website for the instruction and >>> information of others is boastful? >> Basically anyone who publicly belittles and humiliates those who they >> consider less capable or wrongly informed risks being tagged.
>
> That's not the argument you used to conclude he is boastful. You wrote "he
> is also 'boastful' given his preparedness to operate dbdebunk."
Its about the tone. Its his choice to operate it as he sees fit and mine to form my own view on the material posted and assess the tenor of the writings in doing so.
>> Sure its hard to modify a stance when we are strongly convinced of it, but >> sometimes a little decorum goes a long way. >> >>> What about those who write books? Articles? Who lecture? Who teach? >>> Just how much humility is enough to qualify you venture out in public >>> then? >> You are taking the piss!
>
> No, I really don't think I am. I'm just drawing some reasonable conclusions
> from what you actually wrote.
Hypocrite!
> Maybe what you wrote wasn't what you intended
> to say, or was incomplete?
Or maybe you didn't read it as it was intended. Ce la vie!
> [Much puzzling but probably unimportant stuff snipped.]
That cool with me! Far be it from me to tickle your neurones with an oblique reference. Anyway thats enough OT prattle from moi!
Cheers, Frank. Received on Mon May 15 2006 - 07:32:05 CEST