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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 12:54:30 [Permalink]
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This has to be the most frustrating thread I have ever seen here at SFN. Every time we start getting a little "info" somehow it devolves into some sort of point of order exercise for ten or more pages...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 03/22/2011 : 13:34:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Dude.....
Man, you pay your Club dues daily, don't you? Great rant, Dude! However,....... | ...(evidenced by your total lack of response to Bill Buck's questions,....) |
Le Penseur
You bet Bngbuck. Maybe we can talk on the phone. |
........maybe I'll have (and get) the last word after all!| even I would like to see your answers... for reasons different than Bill's though). |
I'll be goddamned! I thought you were skeptical about ESP. And yet you actually possess mind-reading powers. How does that go down. Dude?
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You want to write a book and possibly include him as an example. I do not. Therefore our reasons are different for wanting to see the answers to your questions. I'm pretty sure you aren't actually this stupid, so I'd appreciate it if you live up to your newly stated intent of not antagonizing people for sport.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 13:42:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Dude:
All that aside anyway.... this is the US. I am allowed to publish an article about you fucking your mom, about how drunk you get on a regular basis, and about how much of a degenerate asshole you actually are. Supreme Court says that it isn't a civil or criminal offense even if every word is false. |
That's not entirely true. Libel and slander are both actionable in civil court if it can be shown that the the libelous claims are false and that they lead to damage of a reputation or other kinds of harm. One exception is parody or satire of a public figure, which is protected speech because parody is, by the very fact that it is parody, not to be taken as a factual representation of the person it's aimed at.
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Yeah, well, criticism of publicly shared ideas is protected speech too, including criticism of the person stating those ideas in public. I'll gravt that the Flint v Falwell example is extreme, but it was decided in favor of Flint in a unanimous vote, even Scalia voted against Falwell. The courts seem to favor speech...
Also, libel and slander have some tough requirements to win a judgement. You have to be able to prove you have suffered harm most of the time.
Lets put ourselves in a court room for a moment...
LP- Your Honor, I was abducted by aliens and SFN called me names when I told them about it! They are engaging in hate speech against alien abductees!
Judge- You were abducted by aliens?
LP- Yes.
Judge- Case dismissed, get out of my courtroom Mr LP. Balif, please escort this imbecile to the door.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 13:46:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
This has to be the most frustrating thread I have ever seen here at SFN. Every time we start getting a little "info" somehow it devolves into some sort of point of order exercise for ten or more pages...
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Because we are being expertly troll'd. LP has had ample opportunity to answer questions, but he'd rather fly off the handle and demonstrate his mental instability every time slight criticism is offered.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 14:30:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by Kil
This has to be the most frustrating thread I have ever seen here at SFN. Every time we start getting a little "info" somehow it devolves into some sort of point of order exercise for ten or more pages...
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Because we are being expertly troll'd. LP has had ample opportunity to answer questions, but he'd rather fly off the handle and demonstrate his mental instability every time slight criticism is offered.
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Just curious. Would you describe your criticisms as slight? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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alienist
Skeptic Friend
USA
210 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 14:35:22 [Permalink]
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| I would suggest ignoring anything LP says unless he talks about his alien abduction. Don't acknowledge any other statements or topics. If he really wants to talk about his abduction experiences, he will. If he doesn't talk about the abduction, then I can only conclude he is a troll. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 14:56:44 [Permalink]
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Dave.....
| There's no anger in this, just simple logic. If le Penseur wants certain legal standards applied, then they must apply to him, too. |
You da boss, man. Or maybe, you da man, boss. In either event, I understand your position to be one of:| in registering for our forums, he agreed that he "will not post any information which... violates any laws." If he wants me to agree that things said in this thread are hate speech, then he must want me to agree that his own comments have violated the Registration Agreement of the SFN. |
.....and if he does, in fact, violate the Registration Agreement, he is subject to banning at your discretion.
Is this correct? If not, I am misinformed and I stand to be corrected! I await your reply. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 15:50:00 [Permalink]
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Mabuse.....
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My God, Mabuse - you are an attorney too? I feel like the Rennaissance has revisited us and you are really The Man!| Bullshit! Unadulterated bullshit |
Probably. But there is this...Dave to LP
I will start warning you. If you're going to whine about being a victim of hate speech after a few insults, and citing the law at me to make your case, then it's in our best legal interest to get you to stop breaking the law on our website, isn't it? We can't afford lawsuits, so it's better to pre-emptively protect ourselves by having a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal acts on our pages. We already have such a policy, so you're saying that I should execute it against your hate speech. |
Sounds like a walking, quacking, ban-warning duck to me, but I have recently been told by experts in the field that I don't know duckshit, so I am waiting for the final pronouncement from the guy that I used to think was The Man until you demonstrated your bar credentials.
And Mabuse.....you can add Cheerleader to your Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, and Psychologist Sheepskins. If Skepticism really was a religion, you could petition the Vatican to nominate Dave for sainthood. In your position of Bishop, you would carry some weight with the Cardinals. And, hey----another sheepskin!
Actually, in raw truth, I believe Dave to be a very smart man who can wield either scalpel, needle or club with equal effectiveness. I have a great deal of respect for him, and I think he controls his temper admirably most of the time. Better than I, most of the time. I do not worship him, but then I don't have a religion.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:03:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
| Bullshit! Unadulterated bullshit |
Probably. But there is this... |
Which changes nothing about your micharacterization. Dave made a rhetorical point to Le Penseur that he could be banned for breaking forum rules if the SFN were forced to censor by his standards. You took that and spun it into a warning to Le Penseur that Dave would ban him "if he gets sufficiently pissed," which is dishonest character assassination. Dave has never banned someone just because they made him angry. You lied, plain and simple.
And this is a pattern with you. You constantly lie about people motives or make statements of fact about their states of mind even when you couldn't possibly have knowledge of such things. For instance when you stated that everyone here knew that Le Penseur wasn't abducted. And then you chastise Dude for having ESP and "mind-reading powers" merely because he dared to state that his motives were his own and not yours. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:05:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by Kil
This has to be the most frustrating thread I have ever seen here at SFN. Every time we start getting a little "info" somehow it devolves into some sort of point of order exercise for ten or more pages...
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Because we are being expertly troll'd. LP has had ample opportunity to answer questions, but he'd rather fly off the handle and demonstrate his mental instability every time slight criticism is offered.
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Just curious. Would you describe your criticisms as slight?
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Initially, yes. Specifically when he flew off the handle calling me a liar (and worse) for pointing out a few problems with his answers.
Now(the last 25ish pages)? No.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:23:41 [Permalink]
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Alienist.....
| I would suggest ignoring anything LP says unless he talks about his alien abduction. Don't acknowledge any other statements or topics. If he really wants to talk about his abduction experiences, he will. If he doesn't talk about the abduction, then I can only conclude he is a troll. |
Well, if so, so was I and maybe still am. I fought the same quixotic fight several years ago - attempting to return tit for tat every single time. And, you know, Kil is right - there is a time to move on, and it actually is long past.
But here I am, catching feces in one hand and throwing it back with the other as fast as I can. If that is the proper definition of a troll, OK, I'm one too. I think a troll is anyone that a moderator decides is a troll, period.
And the business of who started what when gets really messy when you start to seriously parse it. I have never studied formal debate. Are there trolls on debate floors? I don't know. I think the whole concept is kind of suspect. In any event, this too shall pass, as the Sufi said. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:33:10 [Permalink]
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Humbert......
| The hypocrisy is staggering. |
Get a grip so you don't fall down. There's liable to be more. But thanks for the stimulation, anyway. The Pavlovian principle is pandemic!
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:36:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Just curious. Would you describe your criticisms as slight?
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Speaking for myself, I would say his criticisms are quite appropriate. I'm particularly fond of "delusional fuckwit". Quite apt I might say. |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:52:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
I feel like the Rennaissance has revisited us and you are really The Man! |
Yup. I'm the Rennaissance man, and you're just a bitter old man who's only chance of getting a rise without viagra is to try to bait members of this forum into a pissing contest with you.
Damn I feel so dirty for falling for it.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2011 : 16:55:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
The Pavlovian principle is pandemic! |
Yeah, you have admitted in the past to lying about people because you enjoy getting an emotional reaction out of them, which is why you have deservedly earned the moniker of "troll."
I'm past the point of getting upset with you. It's pointless and you only seem to enjoy it. I do like highlighting your bad behavior though, which has remained utterly unchanged despite your false apologies and prostrations. You have quite the long record of dishonesty and maliciousness here at the SFN and I can't be the only one who thinks the forums would benefit greatly from your absence.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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