Author Topic: Smelly Hippies, Commies, and Anarchists Stinking Up Denver  (Read 38842 times)

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Re: Smelly Hippies, Commies, and Anarchists Stinking Up Denver
« Reply #125 on: August 28, 2008, 04:08:15 PM »
oops  got my threads crossed
It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: Smelly Hippies, Commies, and Anarchists Stinking Up Denver
« Reply #126 on: August 28, 2008, 04:14:52 PM »

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A good example is the quite common attitude of young college students with a socialist view about how things ought to work in the real world.

That also coincides with the quite common attitude of college professors. Oh I wonder how that could be related?

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but to deny the reality of the situation by squawking about ad hominem is an ineffective rhetorical tactic.

I do not squawk.

To discount a scientific article by referring to the age of the author is completely illogical - scientific articles can only be discounted by falsifying (proving false) the data or the methodology that the author utilized to prove his point.

To vote against a politician based on his age is also completely illogical  a 22-year old who agrees with me is better than an 80-year old who doesn't, and vice versa.
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Re: Smelly Hippies, Commies, and Anarchists Stinking Up Denver
« Reply #127 on: August 28, 2008, 04:40:52 PM »
Sorry 'bout the "squawk."

It seems the accusation of AH flows free & easy from many people's fingertips into their posts.

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