Archive through August 08, 2002
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Archive through August 08, 2002
Drpepper | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:24 am     OK Sanfranjoshfan, as long as we agree he is doing GREAT! Why do you keep telling us it's a GAME. LOL.....I saw your picture you look to cute to be typing such big letters. |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:29 am     c1mag, yup. sanfran, at the risk of roddying: a strawman argument is one in which the logic is seriously flawed; you argue one point by bringing something in that isn't relevant. just checked my oxford: 'a sham argument set up for demolition'. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:29 am     I guess I keep saying "GAME" because I think too many people take it too seriosuly.....just emphasizing to punctuate my point, I guess. :-) |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:30 am     hi ryan! |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:31 am     Snee - Aha! I never knew that. Now I do. Of course, now I wonder how many "strawman" arguments *I* have made here! LOL Btw, I don't mind being "Roddied" at all! :-) |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:31 am     if you were punctuating your point, wouldn't you say, 'GAME!!!'? |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:33 am     oh sanfran, i learned that term the hard way! |
Goddess146 | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:35 am     Sanfran(bb1)joshfan, I would explain "strawman" but then I would be exprobrated for the impersonation of the pedantic pontifications of that effete intellectual snob, Roddy. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:35 am     If I was pun-ctuating my point, I would have to say that for a GAME, it's a pretty "sharp". :-) |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:39 am     Goddess146 - This is all starting to remind me of the cartoon I posted in the "Why so down about Roddy" thread.... |
Jhezzie | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:40 am     I don't get why this is such an issue. It's a game. I can't see him getting kicked out of Christianity for playing a game of strategy. Why aren't the rest of the houseguests subject to this issue of religious beliefs or lack thereof and their ability to play? |
Goddess146 | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:41 am     I am sure Roddy's mother loves him. |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:48 am     jhezzie, 'kicked out of Christianity'! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! goddess, i roddied before i could stop myself. and i wasn't even playing chess, or sitting in a hammock, or anything! *hangs head* |
Jhezzie | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:49 am      |
Oregonfire | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:51 am     Great. My message got lost. Anyway, I looked up straw man on the net, and I think it means setting up a caricature of your opponent and creating a weak argument based on that caricature in order to make your opponent look foolish. So by using George Bush and Bill Clinton as examples of Christians, their notably unChristanlike behavior (in this context) is highlighted, and the real opponent is made to look foolish in the process. Does that make sense? |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:53 am     "jhezzie, 'kicked out of Christianity'! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I know....that cracked me up, too! I do wonder how Jesus would fair in that house, though. I'm sure they'd evict him right away....his simple presence would make them all feel guilty for their host of impure thoughts....besides, who coluld possibly win against him in the final 2? LOL |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:56 am     Oregonfire...yes that makes sense to me. Thanks! |
Snee | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:56 am     sanfran: 'besides, who coluld possibly win against him in the final 2?' AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! |
Jhezzie | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:57 am     Jesus would have been right at home in the house. He hung out with lepers, prostitutes, theives, sinners of all kinds, lol! |
Ryanc2002 | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:58 am     Sanfran - An atheist, because according to an atheist they'd be going into the final vote without an opponent. |
Goddess146 | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:58 am     In this case the strawman was not designed to make any opponent look foolish. It was designed to make the whole topic look foolish. The point being that Christians are people with all the virtues and vices of all people. One can not extract any behavior expectations from a Christian any more than one could from one being a Muslim, Hindu, Agnostic, etc. </Pedantic ponticiation> |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 12:59 am     Jhezzie....and he could never be looked upon as not being a "good christian"...as long as he was just being himself. |
Oregonfire | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 01:01 am     Thanks for explaining it, Goddess. I like pedantic pontification--in a nonRoddy way, that is.  |
Ryanc2002 | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 01:02 am     Ok, I done thought about my theory just a bit more. An atheist in a house full of atheists all except for Jesus. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 01:02 am     Ryan - "Sanfran - An atheist, because according to an atheist they'd be going into the final vote without an opponent." Aha....but the atheist in a final 2 with Him wouldn't be voting....so it wouldn't matter if he believed he had an opponent or not. |
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