Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> >>>Goodness, Natasha, it was a joke, quite obviously so, going by
> >>>the reactions of others. The point was: under the assumption
> >>>that these emails have no basis in fact, there has to be
> >>>something highly irrational going on.
> >
> >[....]
> >>> Why on Earth would I know
> >>> the particular person you happened to be
> >>> involved with pre-Max?
> >> I wouldn't expect you to know; that is why your
> >> asumption was so strange and irrelevant.
> >Not an assumption -- that was corrected earlier, yes?
> No, it was not corrected.
Yes it was. You obviously didn't check with Max about the
reference problem, or look it up in dictionary of philosophy.
(It was corrected previously, too.) I don't have time to do
homework for hostile interlocutors.
> Your trying to use
> me as a side kick was mean
> spirited. I don't take jabs like this lightly.
A "side kick"?
> >>> Before pulling out the barf bag, check alternate
> >>> assumptions -- may I suggest.
> >
> >> And what might that be?
> >
> >Already mentioned one (a jesting attempt to show just how
> >extreme one would have to reach to make sense of this guy's
> >motivations); Max can probably explain the other more easily:
> >Ask him about the old "Hesperus" and "Phosphorus" question --
> >you suffered a reference trauma (for which I think I'm slightly
> >responsible, but not mostly).
> Your so called jest was not stated in a fun way, Brain.
?
> I don't know who
> this guy or gal was. But making a remark
> that it was a past romance of
> mine was quite rude.
That's NOT what I did.
If you're not simply trying to score debating points (badly, I
might add), I can only conclude that English -- or, certainly,
American English -- is not your native language (your odd
assumption that "boyfriend" has to refer to a lover who is boy
is the more obvious ex.). If so, please slow down before
responding.
> The above paragraph is another of your
> snide remarks.
No.
>> I'm not absolutely certain it is, though I
>> feel fairly confident it is. The same tactic
>> was used in both cases: an attempt to get
>> me on his side by constant reference to Max's
>> having "stolen" my
>> "ultrahumanism" term
> I now don't think it was your term at all.
Who cares?! That wasn't the issue AT ALL. I can't believe the
lack of subtlety of your thought here.
>> Towards the Good,
> I don't believe this.
Then you a petty, blindly tribal, small-minded human being --
or, at a minimum, are acting like one.
Towards the Good (with not everyone on board, unfortunately),
Brian.
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