tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post4665667263946118742..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-67612666975686296412008-09-01T10:21:00.000-04:002008-09-01T10:21:00.000-04:00I've been quite charitable in our years togetherGe...<I>I've been quite charitable in our years together</I><BR/><BR/>Get some help, dude, or find another outlet for your talent for your<BR/>flummery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-34850558772060178582008-09-01T07:59:00.000-04:002008-09-01T07:59:00.000-04:00TOM!You're full of shit!Go away!How many times do ...TOM!<BR/><BR/>You're full of shit!<BR/><BR/>Go away!<BR/><BR/>How many times do we have to go through this? Seriously. You have virtually nothing intelligent to contribute, you can't be civil, you just dogmatically beat the same drum over and over and over again, fishing frantically for <I>something</I>, ANYTHING you can whine about or accuse me of. (Your Mukasey blathering was particularly Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-75337155582276370372008-09-01T02:29:00.000-04:002008-09-01T02:29:00.000-04:00...choose the most uncharitable interpretation ava...<I>...choose the most uncharitable interpretation available and stick with it... But he wasn't really in on that discussion except as kibbutzer, so I'm not sure...</I><BR/><BR/>That would be your cowardly "friend," the loveable liberal, who has never posted an intelligent thought at the beginning of a "discussion," but reliably appears at the end to kick whoever's down, <I>i.e.,</I>, me, when theTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-71020379112370447102008-08-31T16:09:00.000-04:002008-08-31T16:09:00.000-04:00Bwahahaha! NOW I AM FREE to spew my POISONOUS NONS...Bwahahaha! NOW I AM FREE to spew my POISONOUS NONSENSE in a LARGELY UNRESTRICTED manner!<BR/><BR/>BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!<BR/><BR/>(Oh and: "Zombie Legate van Dyke" really DID make me spit Gatorade, DA. Nice work there.)<BR/><BR/>But mostly I'm trying to figure out WHICH two piece of my poisonous nonsense he "showed for what [the are]"... I mean, really, I do spew so much poisonous nonsense...and an Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-69165255329142419652008-08-31T15:06:00.000-04:002008-08-31T15:06:00.000-04:00I would just say, as rudely as ever, since I don't...I would just say, as rudely as ever, since I don't suffer fools gladly any more: That liquid you felt? That wasn't spit.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-19046712825571676892008-08-31T14:51:00.000-04:002008-08-31T14:51:00.000-04:00you couldn't resist spitting on my graveAnd can yo...<I>you couldn't resist spitting on my grave</I><BR/><BR/>And can you cite the precise post or posts wherein said 'spitting' took place?<BR/><BR/>Because I've been here since you took away your marbles and left, and I recall nothing like what you're describing here, Zombie Legate Van Dyke.<BR/><BR/><I>your poisonous nonsense</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, it's infected the mystic, loveable liberal, and Heaven Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-38407172369213689822008-08-31T14:33:00.000-04:002008-08-31T14:33:00.000-04:00Oh, I get it! He's a miasma.Oh, I get it! He's a miasma.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-68500603824551792252008-08-31T14:22:00.000-04:002008-08-31T14:22:00.000-04:00I'd have left quietly awhile back but you couldn't...I'd have left quietly awhile back but you couldn't resist spitting on my grave, WS. So now I'll come back to haunt you now and then. <BR/><BR/>Think of me every time you start to post more of your poisonous nonsense. I might return to show it for what it is, as I did twice this past week.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-22703138782886471692008-08-31T12:13:00.000-04:002008-08-31T12:13:00.000-04:00I know, right? Like: Google the Nazis! Google the ...I know, right? Like: Google the Nazis! Google the Nazis! There were very bad people, as you'll discover, if you Google the Nazis!!!!11Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-21471794140512612652008-08-30T20:56:00.000-04:002008-08-30T20:56:00.000-04:00Tom's love for (some of) us is structured similarl...Tom's love for (some of) us is structured similarly to his adherence to reason. His ideology tells him they are the principles to live by, so he asserts that he exhibits them, even though he can't make them stick in actual practice.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1860825954373070442008-08-30T20:06:00.000-04:002008-08-30T20:06:00.000-04:00Nice Nazi reference, O sophistry prof.This is all ...<I>Nice Nazi reference, O sophistry prof.</I><BR/><BR/>This is all I needed to know the author. TVD's dream: to be mentioned in the same sentence as Tucker Bounds and Eric Fehrnstrom, maybe even Ari Fleischer.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-73554452147574270102008-08-30T16:14:00.000-04:002008-08-30T16:14:00.000-04:00Oooh, temper, temper. Peculiar how rapidly you osc...Oooh, temper, temper. Peculiar how rapidly you oscillate between proclaiming how rational you are and flying into a spittle-flecked rage...<BR/><BR/>So here's the deal: how 'bout you go away, for real this time?<BR/><BR/>I've put up with your ceaseless <I>ad homina</I>, your thorough-going irrationality, your two-bit sophistry and your dogmatism for too long already. But the one thing I really Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-73952802740607372312008-08-30T15:56:00.000-04:002008-08-30T15:56:00.000-04:00Man, that's pretty belligerent for someone who thi...Man, that's pretty belligerent for someone who thinks that human rights come from jebus.<BR/><BR/>I love how you suggest that WS refuses to consider opposing arguments. Yet again, this demonstrates your inability to understand how to analyze evidence and form a rational conclusion accordingly. <BR/><BR/>See, if you look at this blog's history, you'll note on occasion WS admitting that he's The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-72334844918515581782008-08-30T12:52:00.000-04:002008-08-30T12:52:00.000-04:00Actually, I'm using your own system of brainless a...Actually, I'm using your own system of brainless ad hominem attack, and it drives you berserk when the shoe's on the other foot. Not that you're not berserk anyway. I gave up on Bush with you many months ago and you never even noticed.<BR/><BR/>Still, I can't help slipping a little substance in, although you resist the temptation quite well, like with your foggy Mukasey attack that couldn't Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-67563917998521349652008-08-30T08:34:00.000-04:002008-08-30T08:34:00.000-04:00Tom, you've really got to come to terms with the f...Tom, you've really got to come to terms with the fact that you are NOT a dispassionate, fallibilistic, scientific/philosophical inquirer when it comes to religion and politics.<BR/><BR/>But we've had this discussion before, and such discussions rarely go anywhere anyway. But I know you like to say the words and pretend. People rarely say: "I'm a proud dogmatist!"<BR/><BR/>You're a Bush apologist,Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-80011481582587310922008-08-30T02:25:00.000-04:002008-08-30T02:25:00.000-04:00My theme at AC is to read the original for yoursel...<A>My theme at AC is to read the original for yourself. Often, things are misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented by people with agendas.</A><BR/><BR/>Actually, you wrote your comment here, and you can settle the question on the subject of admitting error anytime you feel like it when you post here.<BR/><BR/><A>My other theme at AC is that people should consider the evidence and think for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-72375513003414312632008-08-30T00:04:00.000-04:002008-08-30T00:04:00.000-04:00Mystic, I sure hope you do track down my quote re ...Mystic, I sure hope you do track down my quote re admitting error. My theme at AC is to read the original for yourself. Often, things are misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented by people with agendas.<BR/><BR/>My other theme at AC is that people should consider the evidence and think for themselves. In the realm of ideas, and even in the study of history, nothing is ever really "Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-45613702093399170882008-08-29T23:57:00.000-04:002008-08-29T23:57:00.000-04:00To be fair(which Legate Van Dyke claims I never am...To be fair(which Legate Van Dyke claims I never am) he didn't espouse it as a principled response, merely an explanation as to why a certain behavior was observed.<BR/><BR/>WS,<BR/><BR/>That's the other puzzle, since he has us all figured out, why bother with coming here to the inevitable slings and arrows of our responses to high-wattage thinking?<BR/><BR/><B>Aenar have a strict law against Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-23287922450459831892008-08-29T10:35:00.000-04:002008-08-29T10:35:00.000-04:00Well, even amid TVD's normal GOP-true-believer, ko...Well, even amid TVD's normal GOP-true-believer, kool-aid-drunk nonsense...<BR/><BR/>Don't you think this is a plausible thing to say:<BR/><BR/>(JRN)It's not o.k. to make jokes about Republicans being Nazis.<BR/><BR/>?<BR/><BR/>I mean, I know it's hard to be objective against the big backdrop of GOP insanity and crimes of the last 2 decades+, and the smaller more local backdrop of Tom's true Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-65734804873225812232008-08-29T10:15:00.000-04:002008-08-29T10:15:00.000-04:00Oh man, if you could find that quote, that would m...Oh man, if you could find that quote, that would make my day.The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-12107171216176708742008-08-29T09:49:00.000-04:002008-08-29T09:49:00.000-04:00Legate Van Dyke is an expert on sophistry as a pra...Legate Van Dyke is an expert on sophistry as a practitioner, so it's natural he demonstrates it while attempting to denounce WS for it at the same time.<BR/><BR/>No substance here, just the pot in front of the mirror calling it black.<BR/><BR/>TVD is on the record somewhere on this blog stating that to admit mistakes is to display weakness, no doubt this accounts for his nihil obstat approach to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-51244717840690604272008-08-29T08:14:00.000-04:002008-08-29T08:14:00.000-04:00Well! After googling Leni Riefenstahl, I can say ...Well! After googling Leni Riefenstahl, I can say with confidence, WS:<BR/><BR/>You BASTARD!<BR/><BR/>If it hadn't been for Tom, I wouldn't have bothered to look up the actual right-wing director actually affiliated with the Nazi party! If I hadn't looked it up, then I wouldn't have known that...uh...that...<BR/><BR/>Wait..<BR/><BR/>Tom, you're going to have to help me out here. Were you sayingThe Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-62329173797540372352008-08-29T05:46:00.000-04:002008-08-29T05:46:00.000-04:00Behold, he returns! Full of sound, fury, ignorance...Behold, he returns! Full of sound, fury, ignorance...the usual.<BR/><BR/>And, um, why exactly do I care whether you believe what I meant about Mukasey? This matters to me exactly...why? And who on Earth has to Google 'Leni Riefenstahl? Jeez...<BR/><BR/>But why the return? Didn't that one leave, slamming the door long ago?<BR/><BR/>Well, he's sounding a bit desperate...checking in after our Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-19946890158614632552008-08-29T00:50:00.000-04:002008-08-29T00:50:00.000-04:00Nice Nazi reference, O sophistry prof. Some things...Nice Nazi reference, O sophistry prof. Some things never change.<BR/><BR/>"Leni Riefenstahl," BTW, for all your adoring sophomores. They should google it. My pal DA got it, I'm sure. <BR/><BR/>I check in now and then, WS, and this was prime time, so it felt right. Over the past few days, looks like you ran through a full package of Depends.<BR/><BR/>I liked your laughable explanation of what Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com