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  • I don't deal with dogpiles.
    When the going gets tough...
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    • Originally posted by Sirotnikov
      Sandman - who'se the jewish conspirator?

      Agathon - you actually tend (from 2 or 3 threads i saw of yours) to start flashing personal knowledge rather quickly.

      Ex:
      Siro: I think that XX
      Agathon: Well then you're in disagreement with the YYY theory developed by the ancient TTT as described in the famous OOOO by GGGG. But hey, you asked!

      So what? At least I'm here to police the plagiarists - i.e. those who steal from the clever and give to the dull (I stole that).

      Anyway, at least I'm not like some posters who immediately flash their personal ignorance.
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      • What about straying-the-arguement-off-topic attack? I get suckered by those alot. I start by arguing that Black kitty is indeed black and I end up at a disadvantageous position of being accused of having said black men are inferior or something ridiculous..

        Or mutiple-topic-arguement-attack.

        You start arguing about whether apples are delicious or not, and you're opponent accuses you of having contradicted your own statement. Now you and your buddy ends up arguing accusing/defending the contradictory statement and now all of sudden you have 2 unresolved topic to argue about. Increase the number slowly and you'll soon be confused!

        no-response strategy

        Has anyone mentioned this? This one drives me nuts if I have them nailed down and they simply dont respond.
        Last edited by Zero; March 9, 2003, 01:12.
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        • Originally posted by Sirotnikov
          Sandman - who'se the jewish conspirator?
          Comrade Tribune? MOBIUS? Am I getting warmer?
          And I think Sandman said Jewish Conspiracy, not conspirator, so you're off the hook, Siro.
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          • Originally posted by Jules

            Comrade Tribune? MOBIUS? Am I getting warmer?
            And I think Sandman said Jewish Conspiracy, not conspirator, so you're off the hook, Siro.
            A certain gnu, maybe? Or a Greek with a three-letter username?
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            • Miracles, or as determinists call them, coincidences

              Originally posted by MRT144
              which leads me to my next point. what is the point of debatng on apolyton if nobody changes their opinions on it or even cares about counter arguements? imran, back me up here.
              Hey, it happens. Long, long ago in an Apolyton thread far, far away we (a rabble of theists and freewill/libertarian types) managed to convince Stewart Spink (may he be long remembered) the error of his deterministic ways.
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              • Isn't it sad that there are so many anti-semites on the board that we can't figure out who Sandman was talking about?
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                • Yep.
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                  • Originally posted by obiwan18
                    When the going gets tough...
                    Broken records do go on and on about the same thing.
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                    • Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                      Isn't it sad that there are so many anti-semites on the board that we can't figure out who Sandman was talking about?
                      So you are adopting the "Anti-Israeli = Anti-Semite" smear?
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                      • Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                        Isn't it sad that there are so many anti-semites on the board that we can't figure out who Sandman was talking about?
                        Crap. Care to name them? Got the balls to do that?

                        Let me try. We've had Joe, Albert Speer and Luk. That's three that I can name, then I run out of suspects.

                        People critical of Israeli policies? Quite a lot, but that does not equate to anti-semitism unless you've got one hell of a victim complex.
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                        • Got the balls to do that?


                          No I don't. I could name a few more, but I really don't feel like a banning...
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                          • Here's one that some people use. Apologies if anyone has listed it.

                            I suppose one could call it the "questions wind-up".

                            To the person whom with you are arguing you ask brief questions that demand long replies to which you ask multiple brief questions which demand long replies upon long replies and so on....

                            If done sensibly this is of course a reasonable way to conduct a debate. On the other hand if your aim is to get your opponent to spend his or her whole day working for your personal amusement producing screeds and screeds of information you have not the slightest intent to respond seriously to, then it is a very bad thing to do.

                            It is like the "multiplying topics" strategy, but it doesn't really go off topic.
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                            • Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
                              Let me try. We've had Joe, Albert Speer and Luk. That's three that I can name, then I run out of suspects.
                              You forgot Tribune.
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                              • Broken records do go on and on about the same thing.
                                What else can you do if the same one point keeps getting challenged, by the exact same argument?
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