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Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:33:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a
> > manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional
> > responses.
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> Right. Thanks. Is that 'common' as in 'used by the common folk?' by the
> way? No, must stop it. :)
And they say that understated humour is lost on the Internet...;)
> > "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of
> > picking your opponent's weakest argument and attacking it as if it were your
> > opponent's only argument. In so doing, you create the illusion that you've
> > defeated your opponent, but you've no more done so than if you'd fought and
> > beaten a straw man.
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> I learned something today. Marvellous. Anyway, I just wanted to change the
> subject as I'm sick of this whole religion/flat earth/new earth/old earth
> rubbish that keeps coming around. I'd just like to hear from someone who's
> got an opinion they can back up that's not based wholly on over-zealous
> patriotism.
I'm not sure what's patriotic or not patriotic about any of that.
Partisan, perhaps, and occasionally pedestrian. ;)
best
Lindsay
(Besides, you can just look at the old debates and get the whole
run around the maypole that way...complete with plenty of URLs.)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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