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(...) The reference is to maritime trolling -- the act of fishing by dropping your baited lines in the water and ignoring them for a few hours while you steer the boat. The idea is to let the fish do most of the work -- biting the hook and tiring (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right. Thanks. Is that 'common' as in 'used by the common folk?' by the way? No, must stop it. :) (...) I learned something today. Marvellous. Anyway, I just wanted to change the subject as I'm sick of this whole religion/flat earth/new (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "trolled", "strawman" - what language are you half-cut bunch of muppets using here anyway? So if you really want to make a good point in a debate, that no one can argue with, you just make up your own language to do it in - is that it? j450n (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well-put. I couldn't have trolled any better myself! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Great site. (or is that cite?) Aside from the shredding of young earthliness, it's provided what may prove to be one of my favorite quotes: "Studying science doesn't make one a scientist any more than studying ethics makes one honest." James (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're right. It sucks. It's the easiest subject to fall into debating because there's always a good supply of whackos with way-out ideas to fire things up. Plus no-one's actually going to listen and change their views, and no-one's got any (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's...interesting. If I were busted for aggrivated attempted shoplifting and reckless driving, would my children be responsible for my actions? Would my great-great-grandchildren, then, have the task for paying my debt to society? Or is (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmmm again. So, if he's actually _trying_ to come across as a complete failure, and in that, he's a resounding success, which is he? Jason (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe this will help: (URL) Oops! My mistake; that site is a thorough refutation of Young Earth mythology. Dave! (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We've been through this all before. Quote me one established, reputable *scientific* journal (absolutely no spurious web sites, please) that agrees with your claim. This claim keeps popping up but there has never been an answer to my question. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) make the moral choice not to commit evil? (...) us going to successfully fight our nature and become good?...what would be the point of creating a people who are inherently evil?" Here's what I believe, in light of the Bible. God did not (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While I am flattered by your attribution of devious directed obfuscation, unfortunately I must confess to not being as clever as all that in this matter - I've not knowingly changed the subject line in any of the messages I've replied to. That (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe the earth to be young, about six to ten thousand years old. There have been many scientists who have examined the fossil record and found it to fit just as well in the context of a young earth as in an old one. Also, there are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The play's the thing (was Re: Does God have a name for God have a name for God....)
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(...) At this point a general warning should be given that in the near future Robert will likely announce that he has been playing a game with us to see how we'd react. I, for one, feel greatly privileged to have been a part of this bold and (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Does God have a name for God? (was: 20 Years of TLC's Frustration with "LEGOS")
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Hmmmm. Robert, you're really starting to sound like someone else who came around here temporarily a while back - what was his name? Matthew Boulton? I'd almost forgotten..... ROSCO (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Is Robert Bevens exceedingly obnoxious? (was: Does God have a name for God? (was: 20 Years...))
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In just a few days in lugnet.off-topic.debate, Robert Bevens: (...) Makes unwarranted assumptions about other posters' experience. (...) Is a smart-aleck about it. Also: Ignores substantive point on how annoying tit-for-tat arguments are. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good point about separating religious beliefs and the rest of one's being. While I don't think I have changed my religious views based on the direct religious debates, I have been convinced to change my views from a whole perspective. I am (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) At an offhand guess (because I don't usually partake in other online interfaces that are this open-ended [since we're lucky enough to have the off-topic newsgroup]), I think it's no more prevalant here than it would be elsewhere. Personally, I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh goody. This debate is over. Next debate please... (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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