Re: Why Algis isn't coming back


"mclark" <mclark13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Jim McGinn wrote:
>> mclark wrote:
>>
>> > >> "You don't build hypotheses on the
>> > >> basis of unsupported conjecture."
>> > >>
>> > >> or this:
>> > >>
>> > >> "It seems to me that all your arguments
>> > >> add up to one big excuse for vagueness."
>> > >>
>> > >> or (my favorite) this:
>> > >>
>> > >> "This is plainly amateurish nonsense."
>> > >
>> > > Well, far be it from me to pretend to give you advice, but I don't
>> > > think
>> > > you're getting your message out. Maybe you should include some
>> > > context
>> > > for these quotes. Or in the least you need to provide some
>> > > explanation as
>> > > to why you consider these quotes relevant or telling, or whatever it
>> > > is
>> > > you consider them. Hope this helps. :)
>> >
>> > It's not my message, Dimmy, it's yours. Further, no
>> > explanation is necessary since readers of this NG are
>> > quite familiar with your message.
>>
>> Well, I don't know that you should pretend to speak for the other
>> readers of this NG.
>
> Who said I was speaking for the members of this NG?

You did. Read upthread.

> I was
> merely pointing out that they are already familiar with your
> "message" --having each one responded to your "bait" at
> least once. Again, these are direct quotes from posts authored
> by ~you~ in this NG. My contention is that they represent a
> typical cross section of your "content" as slathered across these
> pages.

Surreal.

> I'd be willing to bet that the readers of this NG (aside from
> the odd mental case) agree with that assessment. Let's ask them,
> shall we? Whadya say, group? Does this little sig list comprise
> the sum total of whatever it is that Dimmy, here, has to say?
> Let's let them speak for themselves --those that haven't killfilled
> your flea-bitten hide or are too busy pickin' their teeth (after all
> that holiday food) to care.

You still don't get it. C'mon Clark, you can't be that dense. If you are
not willing to address content then the argument is over before it started.
Science isn't a democracy. Science involves content. Put up or shut up.

>
>>I wouldn't assume that they are familiar with my
>> message. And I wouldn't assume them to be as dumb as you seem to be
>> assuming they are. They can read your quotes. They can see that there
>> is zero substance (content) in these quotes. And they can look back at
>> your previous posts and see that zero substance is pretty much
>> characteristic of all of your posts. And from this they can deduce the
>> reality of the situation.
>
> I have every bit of faith that the readers here know a dead
> fish when they smell one.

I'd say that your whole approach, in stark contrast to my approach, leans
heavily on faith.

>
>> In short, Mikey, there is no replacement for addressing content
>> honestly, directly, and specifically. This is the way it is, this is
>> the way it has always been, and this is the way it will always be.
>> Science involves addressing content. You might as well get used to it.
>> It's not like there's anything that you are going to say that will
>> change this.
>
> You should do that up in needle point and hang it on your wall.

It would be wasted on me.

Jim


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