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Fr Teilhard after your comments on all the other threads I am tempted to think that the real reason you dislike Trump is that you don't think a nation of over three hundred thousand people is big enough to contain both of your solipsistic egos.
As a constructive suggestion, may I suggest you post as a way of interacting with other people, rather than seemingly just using random phrases in posts to trigger off your interior monologue?
If you treated other posters as people rather than parts on your own private theatre you'd not have responded to a poster who had since died, nor would you have embarrassed yourself back in the summer by mistaking a Christian hanging onto faith for Christopher Hitchens. Believe me, there is in honest doubt more faith than lies in half your creed.
As it is, if Israel is ever attacked by animated scarecrows you'll be perfectly in practice to defend it.
Also: if you're seventy years old it's past time you learnt to punctuate. Using only ... makes it look like you're under the impression that it makes you look profound rather than look like a poser hoping that other people will do the work to rescue you from being out of your intellectual depth.
As a constructive suggestion, may I suggest you post as a way of interacting with other people, rather than seemingly just using random phrases in posts to trigger off your interior monologue?
If you treated other posters as people rather than parts on your own private theatre you'd not have responded to a poster who had since died, nor would you have embarrassed yourself back in the summer by mistaking a Christian hanging onto faith for Christopher Hitchens. Believe me, there is in honest doubt more faith than lies in half your creed.
As it is, if Israel is ever attacked by animated scarecrows you'll be perfectly in practice to defend it.
Also: if you're seventy years old it's past time you learnt to punctuate. Using only ... makes it look like you're under the impression that it makes you look profound rather than look like a poser hoping that other people will do the work to rescue you from being out of your intellectual depth.

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Did you mean three hundred thousand or three hundred million?
LOL ... Thank you ... Any other helpful advice for me tonight ... ???
Boxers rather than briefs ... ??? ... perhaps ... ???
You @Fr Teilhard, were completely lacking in empathy in the service of a cheap shot. But then, I guess that you're just an asshole. So fuck off.
LOL ...
*shrug*
More potty mouth as if it is a sign of good debate technique ...
Wyoming. About a half a million, yes.
Excise my "potty mouth" and my case still stands. You were being a petty little man.
I have no idea what your gripe is ...
(and in fact I'm a six footer ... *whatever*)
Nobody thinks it’s a debating technique, you dullard. It’s personal abuse. How stupid are you really?
(I recently saw a meme with a superior fellow looking down his nose at the viewer, and the words "an intellectual is someone who looks down on another for not knowing what he found out last week". I read about Rocky's liberalism last night.)
Nobody thinks it’s a debating technique, you dullard. It’s personal abuse. How stupid are you really?[/quote]
Infinitely, but I usually have some sympathy for people who are merely stupid. This goes beyond stupid to nasty, which is also evidenced by his refusal to acknowledge the death of a Shipmate he had been arguing with - and when challenged saying he had been away for a while and still not acknowledging it. Please feel free to absent yourself again, I doubt anyone would miss you. You may be 6 foot tall in actual height, but you are still a petty, small minded person.
Fuck you.
@Fr Teilhard takes note of nothing.
The only important thing in the world, apparently.
insults ...
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why not both
Whenever someone contributes foul language and/or personal insults a *flag* pops up and the offending post is *deleted* and sometimes so is the offender ...
On "The Ship of Fools," OTOH, spleen venting is ... I guess ... de rigueur ("fashionable," "even expected") ...
*shrug*
No, just on the Hell board. Which you'd know if you bothered to read the rules.
In any case, bans based on word choice rather than meaning are a crutch for incompetent moderators and a licence for passive aggressive trolls to goad people into copping a ban. Hell exists to allow people driven to distraction by imbeciles a place to vent their frustrations.
How about:
Only post when you have something to say that is meaningful and falls outside the purview of the Department of the Bleeding Obvious.
Don't attack straw men.
Don't repeat the same point in the same words. Either people didn't understand your point in the words you used the first time and you need to rephrase, or they did understand it and gave it the attention that it deserved.
If people tell you that the way you are coming over does not match what you think is the truth about yourself, adjust the way you are coming over so that it does.
Try to construct reasoned arguments.
Expanding on the last point: Reasoned arguments consist of:
1) Premises your opponents accept;
2) Conclusions that they do not accept that are contained in or implied by the premises.
3) An exhibition of how the conclusions are contained in or implied by the premise.
You have 1) down pat. That is, you're quite capable of summoning up truisms, tautologies, statements of the bleeding obvious, and platitudes with which nobody could disagree.
It is however not apparent that you've mastered 2), since mostly your conclusions do not seem to be implied by your premises; and you appear to think that scattering ellipses through your post is an adequate substitute for 3).
Yes, they're insults, you fucking idiot.
LOL ...
As I indicated above ... "de rigueur" ...
But that being the case, from now on when/if one of The Hell Forum bullies
feels the need to insult me, cuss me out, etc.,
my stock reply can just be, "That's what you are, but what am I ... ???"
*whatever*
...
More useful if could actually join the dots.
yup
Another "Corbomite" rejoinder (from grade school days): "It takes one to know one ..."
Yeah ... *shrug* ...
"If you don't accept being *bullied* then stay away from the Playground ..."
LOL ...
Your mother must be very proud of you ...
Huh ...
You're not required to look at anything I post, you know ...
Your mother must be very proud of you ...
She is.
What she would think of such language, I've no idea, because she doesn't behave in a way that would motivate me to speak like that in her presence.
Your mother must have constantly fought the urge to slap you.