If Molly and MtG got into an argument?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Has Kidicious EVER made an argument good enough to convince anyone?

[Kuciwalker]

Doesn't he have kids? I'm sure sometime he's managed to get his kids to do something. Maybe.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Doesn't he have kids?

1 boy, age 5.

[KrazyHorse]

It depends.

Anything related to the military or US history: MtG
Anything related to non-US history/philosophy: Molly
Anything scientific or mathematical: me

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
It depends.

Anything related to the military or US history: MtG
Anything related to non-US history/philosophy: Molly
Anything scientific or mathematical: me

I'll take Molly on US History.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


You're argument are just generally less convincing, not least because you seem to take everything personally (see Elok's post "Bad molly! Bad!") and regularly resort to personal insults (like in virtually every argument you have with BK).

'The difference being, though, that MtG actually knows the stuff cold'

'Now who was it who implied I was an encyclopaedia in a recent thread? Begins with a 'K' ends in an 'r', ten letters'...'

'How does that contradict what I just said at all? It's completely consistent.'



Which is it? Encyclopaedic knowledge (knows the stuff cold) or just inspired guesswork, and the ability to do google searches?


When Obi Gyn can't even discuss gay men and lesbians in the same way he talks about heterosexuals, that is, as whole human beings, not simply people who have sex, then how is that not personal?

When he says that we can't love in the same way, or that it isn't the same as heterosexual love, how is that not personal?

When you said recently that death from A.I.D.S. is not particularly horrendous, you weren't speaking from personal, painful experience, and to have a friend's death belittled in that way is personal.

I take what matters to me personally- otherwise I wouldn't be so forceful in defending it.

The Book of Revelation 3:16

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Which is it? Encyclopaedic knowledge (knows the stuff cold) or just inspired guesswork, and the ability to do google searches?

Encyclopedic (where'd the 'a' come from? Or is that the British spelling?) knowledge is different from knowing the material through experience with it. For example, the Califonia energy crisis.

The Book of Revelation 3:16

Why are you quoting the bible at me?

[Berzerker]

Though if both got into an argument and then Berzerker happened by, would the forum collapse due to the server load on the one thread?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Okay, topic for debate: the expansion and contraction of the Aden market in the period between the fall of the Mamelukes and the conquest by the Ottomans.

I suspect it has something to do with frankincense production, the Counter Reformation, militant Catholicism, trans shipment of African slaves, a Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean, and more African Muslims making the haj.

The real growth came with the British Empire and the completion of the Suez Canal though.

It was one of those strategic ports for the refuelling of the Empire's fleet, and I seem to recall something about duty free shopping too, and the servicing/repair of ships.

[KrazyHorse]

Berzerker almost does that by himself...

[Asher]

I don't think molly actually knows anything useful.

Just an observation.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

The Book of Revelation 3:16

Why are you quoting the bible at me?

You mean you're not familiar with that passage?

That's the advantage of knowing the material through experience with it. If you learn it, you can quote it.



encyclopaedic - broad in scope or content;

"encyclopaedic knowledge"

encyclopaedic

comprehensive - including all or everything;

"comprehensive coverage";

"a comprehensive history of the revolution";

"a comprehensive survey";

"a comprehensive education"

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/encyclopaedic

All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.

'Notes from the Underground' by Fyodor Dostoievski

No one, I'm sure, has your encyclopaedic knowledge upon every subject.

'The Voyage Out' by Virginia Woolf

He had an encyclopaedic command of the field of knowledge, and by a word or a phrase, by delicate rapier thrusts, he punctured them.

'The Iron Heel' by Jack London

If I didn't know the material, I wouldn't know the apposite quotes or passages to look for to support the arguments.

That, I thought, would have been self-evident.

See, for instance, my discussion with Tripledoc re: who the United States goes to war with, and why.

You might just perhaps have me confused with Rainman.

I ain't.

[Kuciwalker]

I think Asher made the point I've been looking for.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I think Asher made the point I've been looking for.

He knows very little about me.




Neither do you!

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Asher
I don't think molly actually knows anything useful.

Just an observation.

I find the information he provides very usefull. MtG sometimes puts a lot of trivia in his argument that intimidates you, but really doesn't make his argument any better.