Yes, that is exactly it. Do you really want me to say Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis, just to say that the situation seems to be just as everyone has told me it is? 
I would have figured that the claims made by others would have been enough for that.
You’re right, he said he was wrong. But he then included a quote that I suspect is actually a paraphrase which once again affirms his view of the point that was at issue. My suggestion to him about a citation was an attempt to help him understand that sometimes the things he cites don’t actually say what he thinks they say, and that he needs to let those with whom he’s debating judge the citation for themselves.
Scott, I thought that your post about your bookstore results was a good post, and my suggestion may not have been appropriate when applied to that one. As a general suggestion, I think it’s valid.
That is closer to how I feel, but not quite right. In fact, I see no defenders of this thread, in the least. True, jsgoddess, defended my being the only correct one, in past threads, and mentioned that here. However, jsgoddess was simply defending my claim to be intelligent, and sometimes perceptive, not my behavior in this thread. Also, fictional characters, like in Sage Rat’s hilarious joke, don’t count. Still, however, I am not the least bit devastated by the post on this thread. While they do represent people’s feeling, they are still just words on a page, and do not affect me emotionally.
Actually, I was simply reciting the exact quote from memory. (Taking into acount the fact that I read over other general-overview of history books that day, and it might have been in another book, instead.) True, I am likely to have left out excessive verbiage, but still, the sentence was pretty much was what I said it was. What part of “That sentence, by itself, with no further details.”, don’t you understand?
What bill? All I’ve seen you harp on was the Smith Act. Show me some source where the writers say the Smith Act specifically lead to the interment of American Citizens.
Sounds like to me you are pulling this shit from your ass. What “books”? They all said the exact same thing? Bullshit.
“The act caused the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.” What, the Smith Act again? All the “books” said this?
Sounds like you put no effort into any “research”. In fact, this whole paragraph sounds exactly like your approach to the problem: Simply put down what sounds like a good guess and call it fact. Out of all the research you did, all you could come up with were some “books” (plural) that all said the same thing, “the act” with no reference to what act or anything. Bullshit.
You’ve been wrong from the start, people have repeatedly brought this to your attention, and now you use your “research trip to the bookstore” as an excuse to finally admit that you were wrong.
Now this is more like it. The Scott we all know, rambling about some “connection”.
You might have tried, “I thought the Smith Act led to the interment of American citizens during WWII, but after everybody and his dog told me I was full of shit, I took a day off so I could claim I went to the bookstore. When I came back, I admitted I was full of shit, but tried to place the blame on shoddy research done by the authors of the “books” I read.”
Quit trying to drag other people into this. Shodan has very little trouble expressing himself, stop trying to tie your shortcomings into any you perceive on his part.
Why not just start with a clean, bullshit-free slate?? Trying to defend the contorted postulations you pass off as posts would just add to the trainwreck. Regroup, start fresh, but with some lucid thoughts this time.
This thread needs to be dropped, then, and each individual topic reopened in GD/GQ/IMHO.
Scott, is this supposed to be devastating wit, sure to put me in my place? I make a gentle suggestion, when I was actually feeling more like what **Duke of Rat ** just posted, and you feel the need to employ a trite and feeble put-down? Pretty childish, pal.
No, it was a simple question.
No grasp? What do you call the following?
Something you said, then proceeded to take a week to actually do.
Right.
This is a twenty-page thread, probably in the top-five threads of all time on the boards, with opinion unanimously centered around the viewpoint that you don’t make much sense when you post.
You characterized it as “… there might be something to what people are saying.”
This is something of an understatement. Along the lines of Hiroshima being a somewhat mentionable event in the history of the Pacific theater in World War II.
Scott, i’m sorry. I really don’t want to keep flogging the poor horse. But I found the following interesting (emphases are mine):
This seems to me to be somewhat indicative of many of your communication problems.
So, Scott, what’s your opinion of the Holocaust? Did it happen or not?
I don’t think a band qualifies as a ‘boy band’ when one of their members has had hip surgery.
Problem with you’re saying that you haven’t actually watched my posting from over my shoulder. Had you done so, in person, you would have noticed that I posted one heck of a lot less in GD and browsed many past threads. True, I posted to this thread a lot too. However, that is the thing about tabbed browsing. It makes such things much easier to do. In fact, at this very moment, I am looking though past threads, in between my typing this.
Well, it doesn’t have, or require a cite, but how about my post here ? Does that bring about the end of the world? No? How about here? I am quite sure I can find many other examples. Most will not have cites within the posts, but they were readable, and understood by others.
The same thing jumped out at me, and serves as a reminder to everyone that placing your irony-meter on or near the Internet voids the warranty.
Daniel
Why don’t you simply concentrate on what you’re typing? Are the past threads so engrossing and useful to you that you can afford the distraction and the loss of concentration on your reply to this thread? What do you gain?
Scott, next time you want to research something, I suggest going to a **library **instead of a book store.
This seems like a likely explanation. By the way, I was thinking about going to Gettysdope. I was thinking about what I should do so that people could realize that I am who I say I am. After all, I don’t look like a drooling idiot. Should I wear my Johns Hopkins Homewood campus I.D, or should I wear something in Blackwatch plaid?
I gain free entertainment. Some of these past threads are quite dry. ::shrug:
That is a very good suggestion. Since I am not brain dead, I have done so in the past, as a matter of fact. However, my schedule yesterday did not permit me to visit a library. However, the bookstore was near my daily commute, so I went there.