Re: ridiculous dry apers (Re: MV is the most published author of SAP

From: Rich Travsky (traRvEsky_at_hotmMOVEail.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:57:41 -0700

Marc Verhaegen wrote:
>
> "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@RiverApes.com> wrote in message
> news:1103777377.989848.138430@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> ...
>
> > You're also wrong to say Marc had no provocation.
>
> Of course, he's wrong, the fool. Well, the very first time when I got into
> SAP (IOW, before ever posting anything here!), 5 or more years ago, that
> very day, I saw my name mentioned by some dry aper who believed that the
> famous passage was wrong: "In a Neandertal swimming on his back, the large
> nose with distal nostrils and the protruding midface surrounded by large air
> sinuses functioned as a snorkel." (from one of my Med.Hyp.papers, can be
> found in the files of http://www.onelist.com/community/AAT ). I knew this
> passage would elicit reactions, but since I like some controversion & try to
> write as concise as possible, I didn't change it. The dry apers are
> incredibly stupid here: a child can see that if a neandertal with a
> protruding nose (Zollikofer hadn't yet published on neandertal noses then)
> floated on his back, his nose worked as a snorkel. Only idiots (as we find
> many of them here) deny this. Whether or not neandertals really did this

Only idiots would believe that. No proof whatsoever.

> frequently, I don't know, but for some obscure reason (read: lack of
> intelligence) dry apers think they have to laugh at it, although they're
> still unable, after so many years, to give 1 argument against the
> hypothesis. I can't describe their behaviour in other words than
> unscientific biasedness. The same with all my other hypotheses. I don't care
> whether my hypotheses are wrong, but if somebody believes they're wrong, he
> should at least be able to give some arguments...
>
> :-D
>
> --Marc
> _______
>
> Stone walling every
> > pro-AAH argument in the way you have done for YEARS is incredibly
> > frustrating. As you know only too well yourself, one's patience has a
> > tendency to snap eventually. Marc's snapped a long time ago. I
> > sympathise with that but still don't condone his readiness to call
> > people idiots. But even there, people have called Marc far worse than
> > 'idiots' and 'fools' for YEARS too. You just pretend that fact away
> > though in your attempt to vilify and de-humanise someone who's only
> > crime is to understand that human evolution was clearly greatly
> > influenced by water and get very frustrated that so-called experts have
> > argued themselves into such a corner on this that they would rather
> > argue that black is white than admit they had made a monumental and
> > fundamental mistake.
> >
> > > B) You idolize an *** who hasn't shown a hint of standard
> > courtesy for
> > > a number of years. You idolize someone who has what goes far beyond
> > habit
> > > of attacking a range of posters. Is his modal abuse as nasty as I
> > got?
> > > No, but the prick spent years earning his due.
> > >
> > > Do note what kind of company you keep with Marc. You pick your idols
> >
> > > poorly.
> >
> > Now if I'd have written that you'd have lectured me about not having
> > the presumption to decide what you think. I do not 'idolise' him, nor
> > do I suggest that he is a sub-human piece of ***. Some of us are able
> > to hold more moderate positions.
> >
> > I'm really only replying to this to remind everyone that Jason is
> > clearly in absolutely no mood for an apology on calling a fellow
> > newsgroup poster the lowest kind of insult possible.
> >
> > I'm going to end this by getting back on thread. MV might be the most
> > published author on SAP, and I suspect he has called others idiots or
> > fools far more often than anyone else but Jason Eshleman must be the
> > number one canditate for the most abusive poster on this newsgroup.
> >
> > And with that, I have nothing more to say about name calling. Can we
> > please get back to debating human evolution?
> >
> > Algis Kuliukas
> >

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