[troutman]

Originally Posted by Dion

Jammies response to Oilkiller

jammies tears a new one for peter12:

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...us#post2778410

Dude, as long as we're throwing around how intelligent people are, I'll refrain from my usual habit of self-deprecation to assure you that I am far from stupid and I can understand any complex idea you might care to explain INTELLIGIBLY. If you can't get across what you mean without waving your hands and invoking semantics, that doesn't mean your ideas are beyond me or anyone else, it means you are terrible at explaining them, which further confirms you don't have any deep understanding of what they are and how they fit together.

You have no access to secret knowledge beyond the ken. The sooner you realize this and stop playing magician to the credulous, the better.

Flat denial of the facts is not an argument. Putting people in a category to which you apply ad hominem attacks is not an argument. Appeal to authority is not an argument. Non sequitors are not arguments. For someone who thinks of himself as a philosopher, your egregious and continual reliance upon such obvious fallacies is both annoying and tiring.

You claim to believe in self-examination; do some of it. Ask yourself a question: is it more likely that you're the absolute intellectual superior of everyone on this board, or is it more likely you only think you are?