(Aug 21, 2018 07:56 AM)Ben the Donkey Wrote: [ -> ]Look, Syne, all the "no, you are" method is tiresome. Frankly, I'm on the verge of ignoring you altogether, you're coming across as little more than a boring idiot these days.
As for the last part... there is no way your methodology is going to help "sharpen your thinking" or "provide a challenge".
How exactly, for example, does going on for days about whether you read Peterson or watch videos of Peterson "sharpen your thinking"?
You don't address arguments, you merely sidetrack entire threads or twist up what other posters have said. Neither of these things is going to sharpen your thinking at all. You're lying about your motives, but of course its difficult to say whether its to yourself, or to me. The image I'm getting of you is De Niro practising his lines in the mirror in "Taxi Driver".
I'd advise a different approach... which would require you stop lying to yourself about your motives, of course.
Your choice as to whether or not you take that advice.
By all means,
ignore me. I have no idea why you think I should care about how you feel I'm coming across, especially when you keep engaging, which belies all your whinging.
Again, it's only your attentional bias/persecution complex that leads you believe anyone has gone on "for days" or "pages" about your choice of words. And apparently that same attentional bias will censor that fact from this post just like it did in my last.
God forbid you be intellectually honest and support your claim. That would run far too high a risk of exposing your fragile self-narrative.
You don't seem to make many arguments. But by all means, point out any I've missed...and be ready to support them for once. O_o
Right now you are hypocritically engaging in the exact same sidetracking you're carrying on about.
And you're projecting your own lying/self-deception on me. When few here can offer substantially supported arguments, I simply take the challenge as one of rhetoric. You seem happy to tell yourself you're bored of me...but for some reason keep engaging.
You're getting to be as bad as Carol was. Shaking your finger instead of just using the ignore function.
(Aug 21, 2018 06:10 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ] (Oct 11, 2016 04:49 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]I debate to be challenged and sharpen my own thinking.
No one person knows it all, Syne. The know-it-alls don’t need to be here. They can stand alone. We’re losing members. Tone it down, please?
It's always funny when people tell me this. I've never claimed nor thought I know it all, but it seems to be an admission on the part of others.
No, I will not "tone it down". For one, I know damn well you will not reciprocate...at least not for long. As soon as I say something you don't like, you'll be right back to trolling personal attacks. Everyone gets from me what they dish out. Don't like it? Change your own behavior...instead of seeking to control others.
Quote:C C is really good at providing thought provoking questions and answers. Why, because she listens. She tries to understand what it is that you’re after. C2 is also pretty good at. There’s a certain amount of empathy involved in perspective taking and that is one of Ben’s strengths. That’s what makes him so useful. He’s not only good at, he can usually sum it up in one or two sentences, a song, or a scene in a movie.
You go on and on about "perspective taking", all the while being completely unable to take the perspective of those you disagree with.
(Aug 21, 2018 06:25 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:You don't address arguments, you merely sidetrack entire threads or twist up what other posters have said.
Bingo! It's his petty bitching and whining about trivial points that derails these threads and ends up being about him getting something right or wrong over and over again. I assume it's because he doesn't have much goin on in his life that such petty squabbles should repeatedly need to happen so often. These are the little ego-boosting victories he needs so much to respect himself.
Oh, you mean like your petty bitching and whining in this post...and almost every reply to me?
Okay, show us an example of a "trivial point". O_o
Like most your whinging, it's all a cover for your inability to support your own arguments.