Hmph. Pretty much proves my point.
twickster, no that was a fair response, thank you, until you got to this point:
She does parrot the words of others. It remains to be seen whether she understands what they mean.
Thank you for getting to the heart of why I haven’t been able to engage in a really meaningful dialogue with her. I wasn’t certain myself. I certainly want to.
Who is cutting edge these days?
Sorry. I meant to say: “Now that was a fair report…”
Damn. I just tried this. He/She’s prolific if nothing else, which may explain a lack of responses/debate.
I would argue that if s/he did, s/he would be do so. YMMV.
I am not now, and never have been, a philosopher, so even if I knew WTF s/he was blathering on about, I doubt I’d be able to provide any helpful reading suggestions.
coberst has said that he is a 72 year old retired engineer. He might be a she, but 72 year old female engineers are quite rare. (Alas.)
I get the impression that he did not have an exciting career, and now has finally time to think and read, quite commendable. I’ve noticed that a characteristic of someone who has just been introduced to a new area is to get excited about an insight, and broadcast it to everyone, without really thinking that others have had the same insight. (I’ve done it myself, a long time ago.) People who do this are usually 40 - 50 years younger than he is.
His great sin, imo, is that he seems to refuse to believe that anyone not agreeing with him has a point worth listening and responding too. Most young people who emit glurge have professors or bosses they must listen to to help them shape up.
So, I think twickster’s use of sophmoric is exactly on the money. I hope he grows up soon. 
This is bogus for two reasons:
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[li]Arguing from etymology is fallacious.[/li][li]‘Sophomore’ doesn’t come from those roots anyway. It may have been influenced by them through folk etymology, but it actually comes from a word meaning ‘sophistry’ or ‘dialectical exercise’.[/li][/ul]
shrug
Okay, fine, I’m wrong about the etymology (or not – I don’t have time to research it right now, I’m on my way out); the meaning of the word is in line with what I am trying to convey:
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[li]immature: showing the naive lack of judgement that accompanies immaturity ( disapproving ) (Encarta)[/li][li]conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature <a sophomoric argument> (Merriam Webster)[/li][li]Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment: sophomoric behavior. (American Heritage)[/li][*]suggestive of or resembling the traditional sophomore; intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, etc., but immature: sophomoric questions. (Dictionary.com)[/ul]
His homepage, for your perusal.
He’s male, by the way.
Googled “sophomore etymology,” and the first hit was to a Staff Report by bibliophage – consider my ignorance successfuly fought.
As I said above, though, “sophomoric” was the word I wanted, regardless of its etymology.
I know exactly what you mean. Apart from the harp music. It’s a bit like Justhink, only not nearly so obnoxious and aggressive (remember Justhink?) - from a distance, it’s a string of English words that look as though they not only ought to make sense, but are also saying something vitally important, however, you start reading it, and the next thing you know, you snap back to attention, realising you’ve been staring idly into space for three minutes.
Coberst has discovered the verbal equivalent of the fractal mind-eating basilisk.
Or to put it another way, extracting meaning from irrationality following a recurring rationale under the methodical bandwidth while negating abstracts, perverts many stages of existential selection, thus enabling irrationality as a sentient symbol in an irreversable system by calculating the collective pipeline of encrypted rationale.
Moreover, working backwards in stages from a structured frequency based on the associative stage, whilst negating recursion in an external rationale of implied methodical supression, the associative thought-form perpetuates our mechanism of external abuse.
I don’t believe he’s contributed a single word to any thead he didn’t start. It’s all about him. And him needs to quit hanging around with Mr. Obvious and get a life.
Maybe he fell out of the cab and hit his head. And the fireman and conductor didn’t find him until the next day. That could explain things.
I am about halfway done on coding autoberst, a program that I hope will simulate the posting style and language of coberst.
So you finished coding and now you’re testing it in GD, right? Thought so. Good job.
Oh dear god, he’s getting worse instead of better.
I tried to engage him in a conversation, but his responses didn’t seem responsive. I began to experience the sensations described by Eleanor of Aquitaine, above.
As the man himself says, “It is complicated. You must pay attention.”
Or, at least, maybe you can. Pay attention, I mean. Me, I only ever seem to get about a third of the way into one of his OPs before I begin obsessing about pocket lint.