Re: skinny runners

"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JAE wrote:
>> Lee, you're arguing with someone singularly immune to reason. You're
>> arguing with someone whose reasoning resembles that found in
>> psychiatric lockdown. Marc will continue to insist that you prove a
>> negative, will continue to insist that he has "comparative evidence"
>> that "proves" his position and that you've still not got "one arguement
>> against" it. No appeals to reason (e.g. asking him to explain and
>> defend this supposed comparative evidence, confronting him with the
>> fact that his defense is a request to prove a negative, providing
>> several arguments against the superbly nebulous 'scenario' he's
>> supposedly advocating) will ever change this. I suspect you know this
>> and I suspect you're just having fun at his expense or hope to at least
>> dissuade those seemingly susceptible to his contagious illogic, but
>> just in case you actually thought Marc could change his mind, he can't
>> or won't.
>
> And Algis? :-)

LOL! Hey, everyone reading these exchanges knows
where the preponderance of the evidence lies. And everyone
has their manic period when they believe that "just one more
post" will win the argument. Algis, Marco, et al are more
objects of curiousity and study than anything else and all
parties should remember what utter futility it is to "reason"
with them. After all that, you've both done a superb job
of thrust and parry, a kind of dance of wit and grace that
needs to be done, but sadly is never finished. Algis will
grow old and be left muttering in his hospital gown in some
stinky hallway while his kids take up publishing in "Nutrition
and Health". Let's hope you've got kids, too.
--
"You might be right but, people shouldn't buy it unless you can
*demonstrate* it through logical reasoning and/or evidence and I just
don't think you have done that." ---Algis Kuliukas 08/14/05


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