Thankfully, no. It's rare we still throw children onto funeral pyres any more.
- Now listen, you. The formal debate has done. I'm not abusing you on my spare time.
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[INDENT][I]Can't fool me![/I][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2716100"]Stop your rationalism, you dirty Trotskyite.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2716223"]I think we've all grown from this experience.
No, wait: what's the one where you feel all dejected and forlorn? That's the one.
Thanks for coming, all. ;-)[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2716261"]Two members enter! One member leaves!
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[indent][I]Trolling were damn near the death of us all[/I][/indent][/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2716445"]I love how the bitter personal attacks from scifes have started up.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2717477"][I]Fuck[/I], yes. You think I have innumerable hours to waste bantering with madmen? Expediency should be the watchword of the serious.
Sure: [I]that[/I] and all the other things I already said.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2718588"]How could you possibly know how much time I actually require in a day?
scifes. You lost. Give it up.
Why wouldn't I be? You know, I'm beginning to see why Dwy takes a much harsher stance to near-belligerent inquiry much faster. Perhaps this is a trait I should adopt.
Oh no! More ignorant assertion! Whatever will I do??[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2718713"]Waa waa waa. :bawl:
scifes, there was simply no real debate to be had. Myuu go with you.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2718715"]Scifes: it takes time to knock down almost any poster. I wasn't sure I'd have time for it. In the end, I decided I did. [I]I decided to make time for you.[/I] Now, however, I'm regretting being so generous at all.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2732920"]Excuse me, troll? I won that debate. Hands down. You begged me to continue. Begged. Like a dog.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2733073"]What? He impugned me. I write back.
[I]TO THEM.[/I] To everyone else, it may make a difference.
And you begged and pleaded to continue when your time was up.[/QUOTE]
[quote="GeoffP, post: 2734664"]Seconded. Provided it's a large cap.[/QUOTE]
there, that was all what g contributed to the discussion thread, minus one single post...
...and [I]i'm[/I] whining?
i'm merely debating intellectually, most of the others who came here tackled the subject at hand, and look at what g chimes with every time he posts here, things to the effect of "[I]oh please let it be scifes, you were late in replying by a day and i couldn't miss that chance to get my ass out of the whopping corner you had me in, so please let it be, i wanna KEEP FACE![/I]"
i mean, "beg like a dog"? when did Geoffp ever lose his cool like that?:cool:
i just knew when i saw that how frantic the other side is getting.
[QUOTE] ...after the debate level has concluded. Since this debate is probably the blueprint of worst debates on record, one could suggest the loser of all further debates be given at least a "dunce-cap" venue thread to finish their ranting in a closed environ (for example, call it the "scifes conclusion hole", for instance, in commemoration of this lowly event). In that thread let the egg-throwing commence, and not within the discussion forum level.[/QUOTE]
and what should commence in the discussion forum level?
why the loser was a day late and not two?:rolleyes:
the discussion thread exists for the SOLE REASON that what wasn't fully covered in the formal debate gets covered in the discussion thread.
that's why the discussion thread is there, get a clue.
for a formal debate that wasn't even finished properly, a discussion thread is even more important.
now, the problem with this thread, is that most members think it shouldn't have started from the beginning, that it was lost from the start, due to intellectual incapacity.
i try to fix that here with rational, well supported logical arguments, and what i get from our well respected members;
-"science's usefulness is self evident"!
-"this debate was lost before it started, everybody says so"!
and the repetitive;
-"i already won scifes, let me go"!
even Dywyddyr, who is a fan of dissecting his opponents post, and replying to every sentence with his own sentence, couldn't face me in this thread but with two short "it's self evident" and "they all say so". which greatly disappoints me.
my rational arguments are still here ladies and gentlemen, yes i'm saying science is useless in a science forum, yes the idea is inconceivable for the majority here, but my arguments still sit unanswered, and i'm waiting for someone to SHOW me, in a logical systematic way, that i really did, in fact, lose the formal debate, in matters of intellectual content.