wenglund wrote:Coggins7 wrote:You're a legend in your own mind Scratch. If you think you whipped me, fine. But what actually happens each time you attempt a really serious dialog with me is (as with the first time I met you in a homosexuality thread), is that as soon as your taken past standard, tried and true leftist platitudes and formatted special interest group talking points, you began the inevitable slide toward irrationalism and ad hominem smears instead of sticking with a point by point argument in a serious philosophical manner, and I think you've got a long, long way to go before you'll ever be able to engage in that kind of discourse.
Hi Coggins,
If you haven't guessed already, Mr. Scratch suffers from a severe case of both "Black Knight" syndrome and "Don Quixote" disorder--having perhaps contracted both from Kevin Graham. As such, nothing you say or present by way of evidence (irrefutable or otherwise) will have the least impact, and will simply reinforce his imagined self impression.
Wow, Wade. Do you not remember apologizing to me for exactly this kind of junk? Repentance---and apologies---don't hold up if you don't make a concerted effort at reformation. You know? So why are you doing this?
Also, where have you *ever* produced "irrefutable" evidence to me on anything? You want to apply perjorative labels to me such as "Black Knight" and "Don Quixote," but do you have any actual evidence to back up what you're saying?
The only thing I have found that works (at least for my part), is to simply ignore his vacuous braggadocia, delusional self-aggrandizements, and imaginary claims to being the king of the hill. and having tilted whatever windmills dare to challenge him.
Actually, Wade, I think you are fully aware of the many times I have kicked your butt, and that you stubbornly (and "uncharitably") refuse to admit it. I think you know because of the many times you have flown off the handle and left the board in a huff (such as when I pointed out that you had no real evidence for the existence of "Mr. D.", or the time when you launched into your attack on your fun little personalized post, which you then apologized for, but are now reneging on, apparently.)
Of course, though, he will invariably misinterpret the silence as another personal victory.
How else to interpret it? You two are quitters, plain and simple.
But, I see no real harm in that (except perhaps to him). I am fine with him taking his little flights of fancy. After all, it is not as though I am here for one-up-manship or intellectual competition. Rather, I am, as I suspect you are too, secure with myself, and thus I lack the need that Scratch appears to have of continually trying to convince others that he is as great and magnificent as he thinks he is.
If you guys were "secure" with yourselves, you wouldn't see a need to personally attack others.