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Re: This should be required reading for this group...
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Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:17:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
Certainly the strong disconnect between reasons and conclusions has been
observed here, in various parties.

What?  I don't get it. So, like a chess game, after a certain number of
similar moves, it must end. I'm done here.

O wait, you mean I wasn't playing chess?  It wasn't clever or interesting?
It wasn't even a stalemate?  I don't even know what I am doing?

Flatter myself much...?

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: This should be required reading for this group...
 
(...) You know, I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic here, or not. Certainly mocking, but your target is ambiguous. If you honestly feel the link I posted is worse than useless, why not just say so? James (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) It makes a handy and compelling virtual stick to beat unreasonable people with? And at times, pretty much everyone in here is guilty of unreasoning. Certainly the strong disconnect between reasons and conclusions has been observed here, in (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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