"Peter Bowditch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Show me a crazy person's ravings
that you wouldn't bother responding to. Are there any? Hello?? Or do
you
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:think that you're the only ones capable of alerting the unwashed masses
that
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:she's a lunatic? I'm genuinely curious. How stupid do you think your
audience is?
Sometimes debating with close-minded people can be educational.
OK. Show me when it isn't. Are you following this?
As an>
Quoted message said:example, any thread with Roger Schlafly in it reminds me of watching
ice dancing. What Roger does is essentially useless
As were my debates with John Bain. But we're talking about a lunatic. At
what point do you abandon them?
Quoted message said:Debates with people whose arguments are based not on facts but on
blind faith can seldom be productive if the object is to change the
believer's beliefs. Examples are anti-vaccination liars, creationists,
holocaust deniers, chemical voodoo believers, and anti-psychiatry
nuts. All that can be hoped for here is to provide a rational point of
view and point out the inconsistencies and nonsenses in their
arguments.
Please. Now thousands of posts to make this point?
Quoted message said:I have a long-standing zero-tolerance policy on personal
attack.
Bad idea. You're resources are being wasted.
Quoted message said:This is precisely the same reason I always respond to the insane
rantings of William O'Neill.
Different animal entirely. You make a parallel betwen O'Neilll and Drew at
your intellectual peril. *Everybody* gets it.
Quoted message said:My policy with regard to Jan for the next few weeks is to employ these
tactics only:
1) When she calls ma a liar, I will ask for the exact words of the
lie.
Waste of time.
Quoted message said:
2) When she cites Scientologists as support for her anti-Ritalin
Jesus, this is a consideration?
Quoted message said:3) When she repeats the lie about mercury in MMR, I will remind her
that she has been shown evidence by someone on her side that there
never was any mercury in MMR.
OK. You're on record. Find ANYONE who disagrees with you. Then argue with
them.
Quoted message said:4) When she repeats the lie about the origin of the word "quack" being
a derogatory term for dentists who used amalgam in the early 19th
century, I will quote Thomas Browne's use of the expression in 1646.
Just start a thred every day doing this. It will have the same effect.
Quoted message said:
5) When she edits what I say in order to reply to her own fiction, I
will simply reply with a 100%, non-edited quote of the message to
which she is responding.
Godlike. When will you stop wasting your valuable resources on this [censored]?
Have you received any praise for it?
I ask, again, at what point do you guys simply write someone off as a
lunatic? Can you show me? I have asked you guys this question repeatedly
and received no response. And please don't embarrass yourselves with
something that looks like it was written by Schlafly.
moo