dheddle
Posts: 545
Joined: Sep. 2007
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Oct. 22 2008,16:22) | | Quote | | I think it's important that we all guard each other. (Incidentally, this is why Heddle's tu quoque shitola annoys the arse off me, it's utterly unnecessary, we already KNOW this nonsense exists. Heddle's favourite fallacy of the moment is a distraction from the issues, and little more than petulant whining) |
Erm yes.
I think Heddle's political arguments these days pretty much boil down to this:
1) Heddle: "I am voting for X based on the following logical fallacy or bizarre criterion!"
2) America-Hating Secular Humanist: "Heddle, what's wrong with you? That's a ridiculous logical fallacy! Plus, I can't believe you'd base your decision on Y!"
3) Heddle: "Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Well, I found this example of a LIBERAL doing the same thing!!!"
4) A.H.S.H.: "a) it's not really the same thing, and b) do you really want to BRAG about making your decision some way that you disapprove of when liberals do it???"
(insert random comment about people worshipping Obama here. Start again at Step 3.) |
But you have to admit that sometimes I do substitute a Biden gaffe for an Obama Praise & Worship insertion. Call it the Delaware gambit.
Gird your loins boys, gird your loins.
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Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reason for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. --Sam Harris
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