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Are you kidding me? You're now, from the comfort of your detached position, attributing intent and making a ridiculous assertion of seeing myself and other comp
by bobwaycott 13y ago
Are you kidding me? You're now, from the comfort of your detached position, attributing intent and making a ridiculous assertion of seeing myself and other complete strangers on the Internet as a faction? This is what's unfortunate—that you think you can even figure out the complexities of my thoughts based on your subjective experience as an outsider.
Care to explain just how exactly you can possibly determine from your vantage point the evidence that supports the claim that I am pretending? That's pretty much accusing me of behaving falsely, and you've got all that from a couple sentences? Who is coldtea to me but an Internet stranger? Why would I care to stick up for him? Moreover, why would I behave falsely and betray my original intent to support a stranger? I hadn't even read his comments before I replied to you (see how I replied to yours before rayiner's? I'm replying from email links in which all I have is the direct reply text, not surrounding context).
> What else would you have been talking about?
Would you like me to get a mathematical estimate of how many possible combinations exist for what else I might have been talking about? Please, don't make such a fool's mistake of thinking you can reliably determine what is happening inside my head and my motivations from a couple of sentences.
Your comments show a far greater potential for seeing yourself in some kind of a faction with rayiner. I usually appreciate many of your comments, but goddamn, you really like to defend the shit out of rayiner way overstepping interpretation and not bothering to verify he's on the correct trajectory.
- tptacek 13y agoAre you sure this sentiment was worth almost 300 words? Let's just agree to disagree.
- bobwaycott 13y agoWas your sentiment of accusing me of intellectual dishonesty and bad faith worth the words and your reputation to levy the charge? Two rational people cannot agree to disagree. One of them is doing something wrong.
- dctoedt 13y agoIn this context, Thomas's "let's agree to disagree" is clearly a euphemism for each of us is wasting his time trying to change the other's mind, so let's not bother any more. > Two rational people cannot agree to disagree. One of them is doing something wrong. Your first quoted sentence goes too far [0]. Rational people can and do agree to disagree over, for example, whether the universe has 10 dimensions, or 11, or 26 [1]. Your second sentence doesn't go far enough: Both (of the putatively rational people) could be doing something wrong. [0] All categorical statements are bad --- including this one. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_(mathematics_and_physics)#Additional_dimensions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_(mathematics_and_phys...