@PostITnoteGUY I have no intention of taking up his offer - for precisely the reason you detail here. That and because my brain works infuriatingly slothfully so it usually takes me a while to formulate my responses properly - hardly conducive to a live debate.
He may interpret that declination however he pleases. We may even be able to pounce on an ad hominem accusation if he makes anything of it. As far as I'm concerned the arguments speak for themselves.
Presumably an explanation of the underlying motivations of literary characters in a work of fiction must presume that it is not fiction at all and that the events really happened. Npage talks such convoluted crap, I am amazed he has held your attention for so long. He is like Canute commanding the sea incredulous of its refusal to obey. Humanity is like a child waking from a dream of ignorance with a dawning knowledge of enlightenment but npage thinks the dream more likely.
@ooglebydoogleby His gabble is convoluted, and intentionally so too, but for some reason I find him intriguing. More fool me I suppose, but there we are.
@eddrebrab I think I understand. Is it the intelectual contorsions he puts his ideas through in order to discount reality? I find that quite interesting too. You are no fool my friend though!
Honestly, you should not waist your time with npage95. He is unwilling to accept the evidence you hand him, or, even more fundamental, he does not accept your (our) definition of physical evidence. Might also be due to him not having been really exposed to how science works.
@timeofwonder2009 Yeah, I know... and yet I feel compelled so to waste my time. Perhaps it's just a childish desire to have the last word. Or perhaps it's because I know he has to misrepresent or suppress or ignore the things I say in order to maintain face, and that amuses me. Or both.
@PostITnoteGUY I have no intention of taking up his offer - for precisely the reason you detail here. That and because my brain works infuriatingly slothfully so it usually takes me a while to formulate my responses properly - hardly conducive to a live debate.
He may interpret that declination however he pleases. We may even be able to pounce on an ad hominem accusation if he makes anything of it. As far as I'm concerned the arguments speak for themselves.
eddrebrab 1 year ago
Took you long enough! How went the exams?
SoretaYuki 1 year ago
Presumably an explanation of the underlying motivations of literary characters in a work of fiction must presume that it is not fiction at all and that the events really happened. Npage talks such convoluted crap, I am amazed he has held your attention for so long. He is like Canute commanding the sea incredulous of its refusal to obey. Humanity is like a child waking from a dream of ignorance with a dawning knowledge of enlightenment but npage thinks the dream more likely.
ooglebydoogleby 1 year ago
@ooglebydoogleby His gabble is convoluted, and intentionally so too, but for some reason I find him intriguing. More fool me I suppose, but there we are.
eddrebrab 1 year ago
@eddrebrab I think I understand. Is it the intelectual contorsions he puts his ideas through in order to discount reality? I find that quite interesting too. You are no fool my friend though!
ooglebydoogleby 1 year ago
@ooglebydoogleby Hah, well that's very kind of you to say so! Of course I'm far too modest to agree - I guess time will be the judge...
eddrebrab 1 year ago
Honestly, you should not waist your time with npage95. He is unwilling to accept the evidence you hand him, or, even more fundamental, he does not accept your (our) definition of physical evidence. Might also be due to him not having been really exposed to how science works.
timeofwonder2009 1 year ago
@timeofwonder2009 Yeah, I know... and yet I feel compelled so to waste my time. Perhaps it's just a childish desire to have the last word. Or perhaps it's because I know he has to misrepresent or suppress or ignore the things I say in order to maintain face, and that amuses me. Or both.
eddrebrab 1 year ago
@eddrebrab O.k. then, have fun the two of you. ;-)
timeofwonder2009 1 year ago