Stumpjumper

You'd like my house The kids missed the bus this morning 'cause I couldn't tear them away from SpongeBob and 'cause I lost track of time... My wife took the van to work so I piled them all into my car with my oldest in the front and the conversation on the way to school was how funny it was when Patrick got stuck under something...

Made it to school 1 minute before the side door was shut with the Principal waving at me and the baby in her pj's sucking on her bottle.

Ah. The joy of Spongebob Squarepants

Joykins1

Ich auch.

rigorist

Questions about moderation and policy are more properly taken to Questions, Problems & Complaints. That is the place where you will get authoritative answers.

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seebs

What's "interesting" is your use of a tone that implies that there's something wrong, but you're not actually saying what it is.

So far as I can tell, your whole position is just a fallacy of equivocation. There is a substantial difference between the term "liar" in the sense of "a person who has lied once" and the term "liar" in the sense of "a person who lies habitually". When you combine this with the flatly false assertion that "bullshit" and "lies" are the same things... Well, it's a problem. But the problem is yours; in fact, the jump from "this statement is bullshit" to "this person habitually and willfully misrepresents truth" is unsupportable. That the term "bullshitter" tends to carry the connotation of intent and habit does not mean that anyone who has made a false claim even once is being accused of habitual deception.

But really, why do you even post here? You're not "correcting" anything; you make false and misleading statements, you accuse people of malfeasance where none has occurred, and whenever the opportunity to actually engage on substance is offered, you decline in favor of snide remarks. Is there any real point to this? If you're neither willing to listen, nor willing to say anything of substance, is there any point? I mean, obviously, there's some consistent tendency to annoy, irritate, and mildly insult. Is that it? I mean, you could just get an account at FF and insult people openly, if that's your poison.

Dorothy

Sounds like my household ROFL!

Dorothy

Who are you at CR? Just curious if I know you.

Stumpjumper

Yeah. Trying to get any work done with the baby has been quite a challenge... My wife works Mondays and Wednesdays now and my little secretary is good at ripping all the paper out of my printer

Crazy Liz

By the same logic, you have just flamed the person who wrote post 127 by calling him or her a flamer. The continued use of such bootstrapping, instead of drawing a clear line, will eventually end in every disagreement being taken as an accusation of lying, won't it?

And then how will you moderate CF? By the omniscient mods deciding which post is the truth, and censoring all disagreement?

The clear line between the post and the poster works for the majority of forums on the internet. Is there a good reason for not applying it at CF?

Lynn of the Prairie

You're trying to make the rejoinder of 'bullshit' something it's not.

To give an example: if he really had free independent journalism where the reporters didn't go on frenzies and the management let them report the truth when they saw it, when then-Governor Bill Clinton had said in response to a question about marijuana use at Oxford, "I didn't inhale," a reporter of the I.F. Stone or even Molly Ivins subset of free speakers would have replied, "Oh, Governor, that's bull-sheeeeitt!" In no way does that attack the character of Clinton; it merely good-naturedly acknowledges he was spinning. It is never a malicious charge. We all do it, including evangelical leaders, CF staff and IIDB staff. That is a difficult concept for some who are seeking to categorize the grey areas into a false black-and-white dichotomy are are otherwise unaware of the nuances of the complexities of life.

Lynn of the Prairie

Many belief systems seem to in the Alice in Wonderland phrase require people to "believe six impossible things each day before breakfast".