Re: angstonomicon

Catawumpus <kimmerian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> 
> >>> You're super-easy to troll. All I have to do is some little
> >mention
> 
>      Interesting what you decided to edit-out here:  my 
> reminder that your initial "little mention" ran to five hundred
> words (your follow-ups went even longer) and relied on a
> ludicrously false analogy between the Lord and Creator depicted
> in Job, the maker of the natural world, and a merely mortal
> being, a human engineer who works _within_ nature's constraints.

See, at that point I was demoli****ng your arguments. Of course I used
some words to do that. It was fun.
 
> > How droll. I utterly demolished your arguments and you *didn't
> > notice*!
> 
>      I notice you ran away from your claims about Job by trying
> to pretend we were arguing about _believing_ in the story 
> rather than about the story's _meaning_.  

That's the im****tant thing. If some madman raves a lot we can argue
about just what he says, or we can argue about what it should mean to
us. If we're going to argue, which is more central?

> > Each time you fall back on the personal attacks when you can't deal
> > with the substance. 
> 
>      You just described your recent posts perfectly:  I pointed
> out the idiocy of your arguments, you've replied with
> substanceless attacks on me personally.  Obviously the best you
> can do.

Notice that you can't give up even now. You're stuck in this. I can just
mention how sillily you lost and you can't help but respond, it's like a
conditioned reflex, like an old confederate soldier talking about the
battles he won and how really he won the war.