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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:44 pm
I bet you didn't know "
cynosure
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Tennisguy and I got the same score in the same time on a sploofus quiz.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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ne1410s
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by ne1410s » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:01 pm
theman:
I bet you didn't know "cynosure" either.
Ha!! That's exactly the one I missed.

"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."