Doc Savage Fan: Speculate all you want but I never really got a chance to make my point as we got hung up on trivialities.
m: I wasn't speculating.
I was stating my opinion of where you were going to clarify how I saw what you said. The intention isn't to guess what you were up to but to tell you what I see. I'm not interested in stuffing my opinion down your throat as I am in communicating where I am. I see a defensive answer.
DSF: spec·u·late
verb: 1. form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
M: And? A statement of the speculation that forms the basis of why something is stated is not a speculation but a statement of what speculation drives the statement. It is an explanation of what is behind a line of reasoning.
DSF: I find it ironic that you struggle with the meaning of this word on one hand and then go anal retentive on the meaning of such a subjective word as "many" on the other.
M: I find that I had no such struggle with the meaning of a word, that you are having a struggle understanding what I said.
DSF: I also find it interesting that you "see a defensive answer" where none clearly exists.
M:
My problem is that I don't see a defensive answer or even know what you are talking about here. I can't confess then to creating one where none exists. I can't see having created anything much less whether it was created from something or nothing.
DSF: Another confusing point. You plainly said that you saw a defensive answer.
I wasn't speculating. I was stating my opinion of where you were going to clarify how I saw what you said. The intention isn't to guess what you were up to but to tell you what I see. I'm not interested in stuffing my opinion down your throat as I am in communicating where I am. I see a defensive answer.
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DSF: Hell, at this point, I forgot where I was even going with this! But for the record, I offered no opinion regarding those who called McCain a RINO. So tell me...why would you be surprised that this non-existent opinion of mine wasn't more muted?
M : I offered my opinion that their opinion amounts to a hill of beans. I didn't say you had one.
DSF: You certainly implied as much.
M: The implication that something was implied requires the inference of that implication. We can tell nothing from the implication that an implication was made without authenticating the inference.
DSF: It's things like this as well as your rationalization/denial that you were speculating on my position (when you clearly were) that makes me wonder about your ability to engage in honest and rational discussion.
M: I like you. I care about your opinions. I want to engage in an honest dialog with you. This is what I feel. My feeling also is that you are the one erecting all the barriers to that. I am never frustrated by any problems we have seeing eye to eye. I see you as a good person. I am who I am with you because I trust who you are. You don't put me off.
DSF: I like you as well. It's interesting that you perceive that I'm the one who's erecting barriers when that's precisely what I see you doing.
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DSF: Our perceptions are so far apart that I don't know how to begin to bridge that gap.
M: I don't feel that way. I show you my perspectives because I'm not worried if I fail. I don't have anything to lose because you are already OK.
DSF: It's not about fear of failure....it's about frustration for me.
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DSF: Nice story about "donkey fucked imbeciles" though!
M: Thanks, I'm something of an artist. I hope you see how colorfully spot on I am
DSF: Colorful...yes. Spot on...I'm sure you think so.
M: I am only having fun and am more than willing to seem profoundly egotistical to other people. I don't have enough ego to care what they think. I try to expose those things about people that they fear, their ignorant vanity and the false humility it creates. I am the fool in the mirror, the clown avatar.
DSF: You are a masterful artist and I very much enjoy the color...the "feigned" ego part...not so much.