On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 11:34:31 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 11:11:38 AM UTC-4, wrote:

I think the one behaving like an idiot here is you, Dan.

I believe you do think that. But I just regard that as proof that you are acting as an idiot.

Hey, that's the first circulus in probando fallacy of the day! You get a green jelly bean as your prize.



Of course you do. You identify with something about him, or you wouldn't defend such an insulting, chronic liar. It's not possible that you think he is just pulling people's legs -- unless, as I said earlier, that you read selectively and ignore the reprehensible pattern of "brag and lie" that he uses as a way to put others down to his level.

Another attempt to characterize me. But you are wrong.

] am just not emotionally involved.

If you weren't, you wouldn't be involved in this thread.

By not emotionally involved , I mean attempted attacks on me do not bother me. My blood pressure does not go up. And I find the responses entertaining.

You should try a good book. They're real entertainment. I'm currently reading _In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality_ on Kindle. It's a hoot.


In Gunner I see someone that does not always tell the truth. You see this as a lying slandering jerk, while I see it as someone poking people with the verbal equivalent of a sharp stick.

Lies are not "poking." Lies are lies. When they're employed to insult or abuse someone else, they take on a special character.

So you say, but that does not make it true. What do you call all those books in the library. The library calls them fiction. But I guess you call them lies.

I call the fiction books fiction. Many of the political books I call lies. Neither one is factually true, but fiction is honestly fiction and lies are dishonestly lies. Gunner tells lies.



I do not understand why people get worked up over Gunner.

Because he uses them to insult and belittle others. You certainly seem to be worked up, or you wouldn't be engaging the subject in your rather long list of posts.


Sorry but I am not really worked up. And I think you will find that my list of posts about Gunner are not anywhere near the volume of you and all those that do not post under their real names.

I've posted very few messages about Gunner. In this thread, you have me beat by at least 3:1.


He is what he is, and there is not much that I can do about it. And alsoLoading not much that you can do about it. So I just accept it and you get worked up over it. There are lots better things to get emotional about.

Dan

You aren't the subject of his insults. I don't accept them.

Bully for you.

Either you can't see what's going on, or that's your tribe.


I can see what is going on. Gunner is poking you and you are getting upset.Loading

Then you don't see what's going on.


See above. You may not agree with what I see, but that is certainly what it looks like to me.

Ed Huntress


I do not have a tribe. Who wrote the book about inner directed people, outer directed people and traditional directed people? Anyway I am pretty much inner directed or maybe tradition directed. But in either case not tribal.

Dan

I looked it up. The book is " The Lonely Crowd "

Dan
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Ed Huntress

It was an important book.

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Ed Huntress