Well, nice try, but
I'm the one who declared the perception that the rife sub-debate was petty first,
not you. For all anyone knows you're just following suit, and petty isn't really your perception at all, just something you're maintaining at this point for the sake of self-image
Oh, are we at that point in the forumula-script where we each declare that what we are doing is effortless while the other is obviously trying too hard? C'mon figs, don't ya' think that between the two of us we can come up with something a bit more original than that? Let me clue ya' ... good performance art, just like any other art, takes honesty.
... and if you're honest with yourself, your text walls have been just as long as mine.
Why? Well the answer to that is obvious: it's not
my focus, it's
yours ...
you're defending
your use of this word.
Let me take this opportunity to be completely candid here -- for me this is all fun and games and the fun here is the laughs that I get based on the cognitive dissonance between stuff like this:
.. and your tenacious debating. My subjective experience of this debate is truly conveyed thusly:
that's fine because I don't care
what you argue about as long as I keep you
arguing! The argument itself brings into relief the difference between the talk of free-floating-non-attachment and the walk that it is.
If this is how you want to spend your time, why should I deny you? It's not like I didn't offer you some stiffer challenges ... here are just a few examples of points and arguments that you completely ignored or tried unsuccessfully to divert attention from because they were either less advantageous for you or points of obvious failure on your part:
-- The fact that this whole conversation is something from nothing, and that you are a willing participant:
Well figs, you know full well that I've got no attachment to the LOA but I'll walk on over to your house to note that at this point we've co-created several text walls already here based pretty much solely on your use of the words "urge" and "insanity" ... if that ain't "something from nothing", then I sure as hell don't know what
is!
-- At least
one unsuccessful attempt on your part to put words in my mouth based on pure fancy and imagination.
-- Your unconscious
use of the word "urge" in a way to cast E' in a negative light by speculating that he has a "need" or other emotional impetus to participate here, a speculation that you initially
denied and had to be read back to you in your own words.
I haven't pushed any of them though, because, despite the narrowed subject of the word rife, you've not only twisted yourself in knots over it, but you've failed to really dispatch it ... if you had, you'd have walked away by now.
First you put the words in E's mouth ("rife with mostly nonsense and insanity" -- later you focused in only on "rife" for the sake of diversion)and
then said it was "based on his own words" and actually repeated it and finally only on the third iteration did you actually
admit that he never actually said it exactly that way.
Then when the other facets of the debate started going badly for you you started to
narrow the focus down onto the single word "rife". You first claimed that the use wasn't negative, then gave a contrived example of of a positive usage, then admitted that the connotation is generally negative and when taunted on failing to find a non-contrived positive usage you actually went out and did research on the internet and came back with some odd and obscure reference to a "googlefight" (what the fu.ck is a googlefight anyway?) over the issue.
Twice now you've also admitted to being unconscious of the negative connotations of the word when you used it.
After all that you have the audacity and the gall to characterize
"my" interest in the word rife as bizarre to the extent of referring to a sexual act that although completely natural and pleasurable is, because of ignorance and prejudice, still illegal in certain jurisdictions in the U.S.
BRAVO!
And btw ... do you have something against anal sex? You're not homophobic now, are you?
I'll widen the scope to the other stuff you wrote when and if you ever get done flailing away in your defense of all of this. For now, the narrow suffices quite nicely ... thanks!
While I'm sure you'll poo-poo the evidence of your miserable debate performance offered here as just me trying too hard, the fact is figs, that you can't wish away the history you leave on the forum. The LOA faeries aren't going to come to your rescue ... you'll just have to go back and delete it all yourself.
... and if you're honest with yourself, your text walls have been just as long as mine.
