> On Fri, 2 May 2008 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT), tension_on_the_wire
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>>On May 2, 4:06 am, Bernard <> wrote:

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>>> Do you understand the difference between lying and being mistaken?

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>>> If you claim that Boston is the capital of Arizona and you know it
>>> isn't, you're lying. If you claim that Boston is the capital of
>>> Arizona and you believe it is, you're merely mistaken.

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>>> You claim to be well-educated and all too obviously believe that you
>>> are. You're not lying, just very badly mistaken. Again, I'm not
>>> impugning your veracity, just your intelligence. Oh, and I'm also
>>> laughing at your vainglorious pomposity. It's about as simple as
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>>So now, despite the fact that I have proven your dishonesty in this
>>thread several times, you want to change your claim AGAIN and now you
>>aren't questioning my intelligence, or my actual education but my
>>awareness of my education. I, according to you, do NOT know the level
>>of my education, but YOU apparently do. Since this, too, is not a
>>function of intelligence (even an IQ of 69 can tell you how much
>>schooling he/she has had), then I must assume that this is now a claim
>>against my sanity. Yet another new claim! You are suggesting that
>>all the years I was acquiring my education at one or other university
>>were a figment of my imagination in their entirety. Since what I do
>>for a living is not possible without that education, you must also
>>think that the people who hired me are also a figment of my
>>imagination, or that they too are as insane as I apparently am. Your
>>theory is getting a bit cumbersome. I think you need to make up your
>>mind and stick with one argument at a time. You are only digging
>>yourself deeper every time you try to get out of the points I made in
>>a post by switching your position. It is really a very unappetizing
>>form of dishonesty, the type where a person will say absolutely
>>anything, no matter how irrational, in order to avoid admitting he is
>>in error. You must realize by now, somewhere in the back of your
>>scurrilous little brain, that you were in error right from the
>>beginning, but you will likely be putrifying in your grave before you
>>will ever admit it. Sign of a strong, secure ego; not.

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>>I guess that it also means you are claiming to be psychic, since I
>>still have not mentioned even one detail about precisely what my level
>>of education is (and you have notably refrained from asking, don't
>>think anyone hasn't noticed), but you are absolutely sure that it is
>>wrong, whatever I think it is. You do realize how thoroughly you are
>>beginning to demonstrate a total lack of contact with reality in your
>>thinking? And you presume to lecture me about logic.

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>>It is a pleasure, really, to have to do such a small amount of work to
>>allow you to show how dishonest and desperate to salvage your ego you
>>are. You won't quit, though every time you post, you reveal again how
>>you are just aching to get people to believe that you are superior to
>>me. Interesting, considering your loud and vociferous insistence
>>about the evils of vainglorious pomposity and how it bothers you so
>>much you feel the need to go on and on about it ad nauseam. You'll
>>notice, despite your multiple claims, that I have yet to go off the
>>rail and start ranting about greatness, so I'm afraid you have still
>>to prove that I am pompous or pretentious. Using good English is
>>neither. And so far, that's all the real information you have about
>>me anyway....that I can use English, and that I am better at it than
>>you. By the way, I've been meaning to ask...could you elaborate
>>"turgid style"? It sounds quite erotic.

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>>It is quite tempting to mark you out as a stake, my friend, it has
>>been a joy to play with you. But you are running out of steam, and
>>clearly cannot handle someone with any level of articulate language,
>>so I'm going to conclude with the most direct statement about your
>>opinion of me which is that you can kiss my articulate arse if you
>>don't like it.

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