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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Apology for insults
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:55:28 GMT
- Lines: 70
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- In <30240@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
-
- >In talk.abortion, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>In <C19r6E.EAA.1@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
- >>Bense was clever enough to delete the attribution line so that he could
- >>better attack me. Of course, it made it impossible for readers to follow
- >>these lines ("the above way" was missing from Bense's follow-up).
-
- >Are you going to gripe forever about inconsequential ramblings being
- >deleted from posts?
-
- So, fixing the attribution line to read, in part,
-
- Doug "yer fat black ass" Holtisnger
-
- is inconsequential rambling?
-
- Then what was the point of your little dig about irony being lost on me?
- I talked about Susan's fixing the line being illustrative of the depths
- of hypocrisy to which she had sunk, and your dig at this was designed
- to deflect my flame away from Susan and back at myself.
-
- I took your claim to mean that Susan was doing this all in fun, and that
- even clueless newbies should see that she meant it in fun. But you were
- unsure that EVERYONE would agree with you if they saw Susan's slur of
- Doug, so you deleted the attribution line.
-
- > Notice that I've yet again deleted these "sage"
- >words from this response, as the only thing I want to respond to is
- >above, and it requires no previous substance to make my point.
-
- You also think the deletion of Chaney's frontal lobe is a topic which
- is insubstantial enough that you can safely poke fun at me for talking
- about it.
-
- I take it you have found a higher Hegelian synthesis, to replace
- the obsolete category called "truth" [the thesis] and "falsehood"
- [the antithesis]. Please share your higher synthesis with the
- rest of the people in this newsgroup. Also the synthesis between
- the equally obsolete categories "good" and "evil".
-
- [Apparently pointless pie-throwing by Bense deleted. Perhaps if fits in with
- his higher synthesis, and I am so deficient in the higher thought that
- I do not see that it is far more relevant to talk.abortion than such
- lower categories as abortion, fetal rights, the rights of women to
- bodily autonomy, the question of when the z/e/f becomes sentient,
- and other similarly mundane matters.]
-
- >>Note to Gordon Storga: I apologize for a crack I made about you a couple
- >>of months ago, comparing you to Bense. You now seem to be a much better
- >>man than he is.
-
- More true now than ever.
-
- >He must be, his list of ex-girlfriends seems to way outnumber my own.
-
- His list is a harmless joke. Your behavior is an insult to the people in
- this newsgroup.
-
- Gordon is an unabashed atheist. I respect such a stand, unless there is
- some indication that he arrived at his atheism in bad faith. People like
- you, who talk about the priceless irony of making a U-turn to God--which
- of the hundred or so levels of irony do *you* perceive when reading the
- bumper sticker?--are the sort that I cannot respect, when this kind of
- talk is coupled with the character assassination you post in this
- newsgroup.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-
-