I broke my vow, briefly, a few days ago when he was spreading nonsense in the proof of citizenship thread. I thought I would be okay because I was not replying to him directly, but then he replied to my reply and was so wrong I could not resist.
I had provided a cite that show conclusively that he was wrong (and my cite was all of one sentence long, so not hard to read) and he not only glossed right over it, but actually insisted it supported his point. So I had to reply directly. And then he replied pretending that he had never actually said—or at least corrected himself on—the blatantly wrong thing he had both said and never corrected. I could almost imagine he’s engaged in gaslighting, but then I don’t think he’s nearly so bright as a gaslight.
It just goes to show that real life isn’t like Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. When you play with Deth, you lose.
I was just perusing the Things you think you know, but you don’t thread. He questions everyone’s replies and if there’s nothing to refute he still has to chime in, ostensibly to show his agreement, but it’s really to prevent the other poster from having the last word. If nobody has posted for a bit he’ll post another factoid. Like Cliff Clavin’s less charming but more annoying brother. The real corker for me is that he’s the one that started the thread.
He can’t actually give us an uninterrupted lecture so he starts a thread asking for peoples’ input and then dominates the whole thing.
It was completely relevant. You made a point that the benefit of antioxidants in foods “is a mirage” and put up cites that said the exact opposite. Moreover there was a specific factual question being asked, which your cites did not address.
I think he is the only person in the English speaking world (including people who speak English as a second language) who has that weird belief, so it’s not really worth engaging with him.
Yeah, you’re right. I get too easily annoyed by Christians whining that we don’t all follow Christian nomenclature, despite his tortured logic. (Unlike others in the thread who just dislike it when terms get changed on them, which is quite reasonable.)
He, like most American Christians, likes to imagine himself a victim of modern culture. Where modern is broadly defined to be the past 80 to 100 years or so.
I try to keep my ignore list as short as I can, with only 3 people on it right now who infuriate me with their blatherings. He doesn’t infuriate me, just makes me roll my eyes into the back of my head, which I guess is almost as annoying…
If they are not truly persecuted, far too many of them think that what they encounter in their everyday lives must then be persecution. If they ruled the House, the Senate and the Presidency, and got got their wishlist of laws passed, they would still proclaim to one and all that they were persecuted.